This post will be a bit all over the place.
Several months ago, I wrote Hard Mode Rust, exploring an allocation-conscious style of programming.
In the ensuing discussion, @jamii name-dropped TigerBeetle, a reliable, distributed, fast, and small database written…

Note to readers: this is an April Fools post, intended to satirize bad arguments made against Rust. I have mixed feelings about it now, as I think people who understood the context appreciated the humor, but some people were confused. That’s partly because…

Posts and writings by Nical

Buck2, our new open source, large-scale build system, is now available on GitHub. Buck2 is an extensible and performant build system written in Rust and designed to make your build experience faste…

In this post, we will discuss the challenges of programming with locks and how the C++ language offers some useful tools to make it easier. We will start with an example in C and then use C++ to improve upon it in steps. The example APIs are based on real…

This document explains the WebAssembly tail calls proposal and demonstrates it with some examples.

Collaborative Collection of C++ Best Practices. This online resource is part of Jason Turner's collection of C++ Best Practices resources. See README.md for more information. - cpp-best-pra...

R&D computing at scale

It is thankfully common wisdom nowadays that documentation must be placed as near as possible to the code it documents, and should be fine-grained to a minimal unit of describability (the thing being documented). The practice provides numerous benefits to…

I recently acquired an ESP32-C3-DevKitC-02 module, and, as I tend to do, jumped right into reading about how the system boots and how the (pretty good!) tooling Espressif offers works. We have typically used QEMU in the RISC-V Bytes series, but getting our…