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Hi! I'm an undergraduate student at Oregon State University, double majoring in computer systems and mathematics . My primary research interest is theoretical and applied programming languages (PL): compilers, functional programming, type systems, etc. I help maintain the programming language reading group here at OSU…

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Allocgate: Restructuring how allocators work in Zig

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Version 0.9 of the Zig programming language is planned to release in about a week. One of the major changes coming in this release is a restructuring of how allocators work, which has been termed Allocgate . This is a breaking change to the Allocator API provided by the standard library, so pretty much any code that…