Ruud van Asseldonk

Hi, I am Ruud. I like low-level systems programming for bare metal performance, but I also enjoy high- level functional programming. Sometimes I write about that here. I try to write interesting posts, such as this series about building a typechecker, but by far my most popular post is a rant about yaml . I am mildly…

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Zero Cost Abstractions

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Rust claims to enable abstraction without overhead. How does that claim hold up in practice?