The much asked for comparison between Hare, Rust and Zig... (more…)

It was recently discovered that some surprising operations on Rust’s standard hash table types could go quadratic. Perhaps the simplest illustration is this snippet from a comment, here simplified...

Let’s implement an immutable, singly-linked list. Singly-linked means that each node contains a reference to the next node, but not vice versa. To make this data structure really performant, let’s use plain references instead of heap-allocated types. This... (more…)

Pijul is a version control system based on patches. Its fundamental promise is that two patches producible in parallel always commute. This makes the whole system more correct, and much simpler to use, as explained in the manual. (more…)

Rust macros allow cursed chimeric languages to exist... (more…)