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Jared Parsons

@jaredpar
Work on compilers and languages. Creator of VsVim. He/Him #BlackLivesMatter
Redmond, WA
blog.paranoidcoding.org
Joined December 2008
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    Dec 7, 2021
    Full Span<Tee> shirt #span #dotnet
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    Jared Parsons
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    Nov 5, 2025
    Interested in working in .NET Tooling? My team is hiring for a few roles. This is a great to impact the .NET ecosystem, work with devs all across Microsoft and help drive the .NET platform forward. jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/… jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/…
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    Oct 23, 2024
    C# trivia: what does the following print and why?
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    Oct 21, 2024
    College teaching of compilers turned me off them entirely. Specifically avoided them when I joined Microsoft. I only ended up on compilers because I was following managers I trusted and respected. Turns out production compilers are so much more interesting and fun.
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    Oct 19, 2024
    I hate how compilers are taught in college. They take a trivially easy problem: convert a text file to machine code, and make it absurdly hard. You can do 90% of a compilers job if you know how to read text from a file and look for keywords. Everything else is bookkeeping.
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    Oct 16, 2024
    Compilers was was known to be the hardest CS class at Cornell which was hard as it is. We were handed a 8-page PDF at the start of sem for a language spec we'd be implementing by the end of sem, split into 6 parts. On part 5, the median was a 0/100 and most the class failed.
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    Jared Parsons
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    Aug 15, 2024
    Really excited to be speaking at Update again this year. Had a blast last time I was there and expecting good times again!
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    Aug 15, 2024
    #UPDATECONFERENCE | 🚀 Thrilled to share that Jared Parsons, C# Compiler Lead and key member of the C# Language Design Team, will be speaking at Update Conference Prague 2024! 🌟 @jaredpar With over 15 years in .NET developer tooling and a strong passion for open source,
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