It's entirely possible that you're walking a happy road of a programmer who never had to write a parser by hand. That's not my case unfortunately. I remember incomprehensible indexing of hideous arrays of characters, a maddening cascade of unmaintainable ...

System programming in Rust: beyond safety Balasubramanian et al., HotOS’17 Balasubramanian et al. want us to switch all of our systems programming over to Rust. This paper sets out the case. … (more…)

Back in 2009, Jackpot51 wrote SollerOS, which was a tiny operating system which was simply a hobby project of his to learn OS development. It was a tiny kernel written in Assembly, which could print text to the screen.

Ever since some initial discussions with Raph Levien (author of font-rs) at RustConf last September, I’ve been thinking about ways to improve … (more…)

You are working with Ruby, probably with Rails or Sinatra. Your company has an algorithm that is becoming more complex and important… (more…)