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What are some good books for architecture of web software for performance? Preferably ones targeted to Spring but also other technologies

I think many languages tried to be "simple", but in the process they also handicapped developers by removing useful features like generics and operator overloading. I'm thinking Java, Go, etc. Is there a language that actually is simple, but also is expressive while also remaining cor...

I am thinking between F# and elixir. I like F# but don't like .net ecosystem. Should I pick up Elixir?

On book recommendations for developers SICP and similar books come up a lot. But what are some practice oriented books that can make a real difference in the job of a software developer/architect?

Here's their homepage explaining what it is https://arrow.apache.org/docs/format/Flight.html but it's not clear to me what new use case is addressed by this . Is it a message passing format? Does it speed up data reading over the network say from s3?

Is it realistic to look for transitioning into research in programming language theory for someone who's has done mostly backend but has a PhD in math related field, without passing through Academia?

In my opinion, it is Rust. It puts safety first and most features are coherent and well thought out