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Where are all the reverse engineers, compiler devs, and OS devs at!? There must be some people interested in this stuff around these parts...
(Please don't recommend hashtags. It's an intentional omission, to avoid the "hacker bros".)
@lunarood i'm interested in new models of linking for e.g. shading symbols by version or supporting languages with compile-time polymorphism or especially to improve performance via smart caching but i'm not terribly familiar with standard linking
@hipsterelectron Ah, that's cool!
No need for deep familiarity with this particular matter (I knew practically nothing about ELF until last week, lol). I'm just looking for people with these kinds of interests in general, so that these random posts don't go to waste 
Sometimes I want to post silly stuff related to low level programming, to perhaps spark some conversation or at least amuse someone, but it can feel like it's too niche 
@lunarood this happens to me quite a lot with my work on parsing and regex (i also worry people feel unqualified to comment) and it's very lonely. but if i'm obnoxious enough about it ppl often at least give me excuses to reframe the problem in different terms esp since lots of ppl have surface familiarity and have experienced the problems i'm hoping (claiming) to fix. so engaging people on like the problems they have with the stuff you're working on can definitely be generative imho
@hipsterelectron For sure! I definitely try to do that when it comes to problems I'm solving or trying to solve!
But sometimes I just want to post a silly (though extremely niche) thing, for the sake of amusement. The problem is finding the people that would be amused
I guess it's partly a matter of reach. My account here is still pretty small, so just from a probabilistic perspective, a niche post is unlikely to be seen by someone sharing the same interest.
@lunarood i have seen lots of very interesting people doing compiler stuff on your instance it surprised me the first time
@hipsterelectron Actually yeah, that's true.
Idk, there's just some kind of disconnect somewhere. I know plenty of graphics people to mutually engage with, but I seem to struggle to break into the low level, non-graphics, systems dev communies.
I guess I should just post more. Mastodon in general has been pretty slow for me, since moving here coincided with me posting a lot less, due to unrelated circumstances.
But anyway... we'll see 