Previously: Typing the Technical Interview. Update, November 2023: here are the full term rewrite and language macros which formed the seed of this story. These files include OO notation as well as the basic Algol syntax shown here. There is … Read more
All of this, though, occurred long after the life and death of the man who left behind the skeleton that Drancourt analyzed, who was buried in a now-ruined chapel in the village of Roquevaire. Archeological excavations at the site in … Read more
— Thursday, August 10th 2023 The source code for the classic PSX launch title wipEout was leaked in 2022. A few month ago I finally sat down to take a look at it. The result is a (nearly) complete rewrite … Read more
At Shopify, we have spent the last year writing a new Ruby parser, which we’ve called YARP (Yet Another Ruby Parser). As of the date of this post, YARP can parse a semantically equivalent syntax tree to Ruby 3.3 on … Read more
The vandals have come for Roald Dahl. His books for children are to be cleansed of their ‘offensive’ content. Sensitivity readers – what we used to call censors – have been employed to pore over his works and expurgate any … Read more
For the last few months, Donny (or kdy1 on GitHub) has been walking a long, lonely road. The author of swc, a native-speed replacement for Babel, has his eyes on another goal: rewriting TypeScript in Rust. stc is his attempt. … Read more
Two years ago I wrote my first interpreter for a toy programming language called Monkey, in C. The thing works and is pretty fast, but I remember a lot of frustration dealing with segfaults or hard-to-track down memory leaks as … Read more
sysctl is a simple and great tool for modifying the kernel parameters. It does its job very well by providing an easy-to-use interface for /proc/sys. It is maintained as a part of procps toolkit for years and it can easily … Read more
Rust is more portable than C for pngquant/libimagequant libimagequant is a library for generating high-quality palettes, useful for compression of transparent PNG images (~75% smaller!) and making nice GIF animations. libimagequant is now a pure Rust library. The new version … Read more