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What Golang Is and Is Not

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What makes a good REPL?

Dear Reader: although this post mentions Clojure as an example, it is not specifically about Clojure; please do not make it part of a language war. If you know other configurations which allow for a productive REPL experience, please describe them in the comments!

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The problem with OpenTelemetry

I regularly complain about OpenTelemetry, so with an aim to be a less useless contributor, today I'm putting pen to paper. If you're an implementer, I ask you to read this and take away the personal bias you might have towards your work, and instead look objectively at the feedback being given.

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Dennis Ritchie on the priorities of && || vs. == etc. (1982)

Early C had no separate operators for & and && or | and || . (Got that?) Instead it used the notion (inherited from B and BCPL ) of "truth-value context": where a Boolean value was expected, after "if" and "while" and so forth, the & and | operators were interpreted as && and || are now; in ordinary expressions, the…

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Pitfalls of Safe Rust

When people say Rust is a “safe language”, they often mean memory safety. And while memory safety is a great start, it’s far from all it takes to build robust applications. Memory safety is necessary but not sufficient for overall reliability. In thi…

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Avoid Mini-Frameworks

I work in Google Ads in the past several years. Over time, I've seen one pattern came along again and again, causing endless pain for developers, that is, creating mini-frameworks.

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Windows 10 Hosted App Model

In Windows 10 version 2004, we are introducing the concept of Hosted Apps to the Windows App Model. Hosted apps are registered as independent apps on Windows, but require a host process in order to run. An example would be a script file which requires its host (eg: Powershell or Python) to be installed. By