These go all the way back to my time in university. Some were made in 24 hours for programming competitions, others I've been maintaining for 10 years.
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See my follow-up article: “A Fast, Growable Array With Stable Pointers in C” I write type safe generic data structures in C using a technique that I haven’t seen elsewhere1. It uses unions to associate type information with a generic data structure, but we’ll get to that. My approach works for any type of data…
How a 10 year old design choice for Swift’s type checker still haunts us to this day