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The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention

Fil-C achieves memory safety even for programs that behave adversarially. That includes casting function pointers to the wrong signature and then calling them, exporting a function with one signature in one module and then importing it with a different signature in another, or even exporting a symbol as a function in…

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Paving the on-ramp to Java

Java is one of the most widely taught programming languages in the world. Tens of thousands of educators find that the imperative core of the language combined with a straightforward standard library is a foundation that students can comfortably learn on. Choosing Java gives educators many degrees of freedom: they can…

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Why Does Developing on Kubernetes Suck?

Kubernetes has changed the way I operate software. Whole classes of production problems have disappeared–arguably to be replaced by others. But such is the way of the world. All told I’m happier operating a microservices app today than I was before I started using Kubernetes.