In Rust in 2023, @nrc floated an idea of a Rust compiler rewrite. As my hobby is writing Rust compiler frontends (1, 2), I have some (but not very many) thoughts here! The post consists of two parts, covering organizational and technical aspects. (more…)

A blog post titled, "Diving into Go by Building a CLI Application" has been making it's rounds of the internet. It uses a small XKCD downloader as the subject. I thought was small and self contained enough, that it'd be interesting to see the same exam... (more…)

Rust supports a number of type coercions, which implicitly convert one type to another. As in any language with coercion, there is a trade-off made between clarity when reading and ease of writing. While disagreement may be had about whether Rust’s list o... (more…)

bkt is a subprocess caching utility, available as a command line binary and a Rust library. - GitHub - dimo414/bkt: bkt is a subprocess caching utility, available as a command line binary and a Rus... (more…)

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. (more…)