I’ve been learning Rust lately. Rust is one of the most loved languages out there, is fast, and has an amazing community. Rust invented the concept of ownership as a solution memory management issues without resorting to something slower like...

Richard Hart, principal engineer at Antithesis, shares hard-won lessons from leading a database development project over the past year. The presentation covers three main categories: performance optimization, reliability and scalability, and software engineering…

Today I have created a repository containing Jan van Katwijk’s Ada- Compiler (pronounced as Ada Minus). In the context of our Ada 83 Memory wiki we came across Jan’s PHD thesis from 1987. And it describes a compiler for a large subset of Ada. The main exclusion…

Eight ways to implement defer in C.

Large language models sometimes produce structured, first-person descriptions that explicitly reference awareness or subjective experience. To better understand this behavior, we investigate one...

Approximately 212 RFCs so far, starting with RFC 269, contain the terms `foo', `bar', or `foobar' as metasyntactic variables without any proper explanation or definition. This document rectifies that deficiency. This memo provides information for the Internet…

wingolog: article: six thoughts on generating c

One of the biggest problems in kernel development is dealing with concurrency. In a system whe [...]

Exploring allocator design in C, C3, Hare, Odin, Rust, and Zig.

This post is a case study of writing a Rust application using only minimal, artificially constrained API (eg, no dynamic memory allocation). It assumes a fair bit of familiarity with the language.

Interpreters have a bad reputation for having lower performance than just-in-time compilers. We present a new way of building high performance interpreters that is particularly effective for...