To write a fast port scanner, a programming language requires: A Good I/O model, not to eat all the resources of the system. High-level abstractions and a good packaging system to isolate low-level code and reuse it easily. To be type and memory safe, be... (more…)

Today, I would like to showcase the oxidised metal wall art of José Bechara. As some of you may know, I love using both oxidation (rusting) and polishing on the metallic home decor and wall art that I create, to give a unique metal patina that is slightly... (more…)

With SixtyFPS, we are creating a GUI toolkit. We chose Rust as the implementation language for our runtime library, and we want to make the same library usable from different programming languages. We believe programmers in all languages need... (more…)

The code for the library used in this post can be found here. It is only intended as a proof of concept, so user beware! (more…)

Since December I and others have been working on a port of the Move programming language to LLVM. This work is sponsored by Solana, with the goal of running Move on Solana and its rbpf VM; though ultimately the work should be portable to other targets sup... (more…)