The article argues that becoming a programmer requires more than watching tutorials or collecting certificates; it demands the ability to solve problems by thinking in code, which is built through lon…
The article describes a team's decision to replace a C++ implementation with Rust for a database-driven configuration layer in a Treasure Hunt engine, citing C++'s manual memory management and scalabi…
The article describes Ark, a SQL-like relational database engine built entirely from scratch in C++ by developer Devansh Kashyap, with the goal of learning database internals rather than competing wit…
Alice Ryhl, a software engineer on Google's Android Rust team and core maintainer of Tokio, discussed Rust's unique features and governance in a podcast episode. She highlighted that Rust's memory saf…
The article discusses Matt Austern's 2000 paper on segmented iterators, which proposed a two-level iterator abstraction to improve performance on segmented data structures like `std::deque` by allowin…
The article introduces an individual who is a father of two, a husband, and a scientific backend software developer with a PhD in Computational Materials Science from Georgia Tech. It lists their tech…
After two months of full-time Rust development, the author plans to use Rust instead of C++ for future performance-critical projects. A key reason is that Rust's syntax is cleaner than modern C++, par…
The article describes the author's difficulty using Valgrind for memory debugging on Artix Linux, as both Artix and Arch Linux have removed debug packages in favor of a debuginfod system. While debugi…
The article provides a step-by-step guide on self-hosting a Git frontend service using Gitea on a Debian server with Nginx. It covers setting up a PostgreSQL database for Gitea, downloading and instal…
The article discusses a design consideration for the ALFE programming language, where the author explores the possibility of treating integers as types to enable fixed-length arrays indexed by non-int…