Chad Austin

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My friend’s SNES Classic stopped responding to controller inputs. He reset it to factory settings but couldn’t even get through the language selection menu without being able to push buttons.

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Unsafe Rust is harder than C

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Or: The Most Expensive Linked List I’ve Ever Written

Sum Types Are Coming (2015)

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Just as all mainstream languages now have lambda functions, I predict sum types are the next construct to spread outward from the typed functional programming community to the mainstream. Sum types are very useful, and after living with them in Haskell for a while, I miss them deeply when using languages without them…