In a previous post, I explained why rewriting existing software in Rust could be a good idea. The main point being that you should not rewrite the whole application, but replace the weaker parts wi… (more…)

We are thrilled to announce Suricata 4.0. This is a major new release, improving detection capabilities, adding new output options and more protocols. Improved Detection Based on valuable feedback … (more…)

Go has good support for calling into assembly, and a lot of the fast cryptographic code in the stdlib is carefully optimized assembly, bringing speedups of over 20 times. However, writing assembly code is hard, reviewing it is possibly harder, and cryptog... (more…)

A new era of statically typed, natively compiled, programming languages has arrived sweeping aside the old choice between performance and productivity while also eliminating runtime dependencies on an interpreter or VM. Two of the top contenders are Rust ...

Carp - A statically typed lisp, without a GC, for high performance applications... (more…)