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Summary: JWCC is a minimal extension to the widely used JSON file format with (1) optional commas after the final element of arrays and objects and (2) C/C++ style comments. These two features make it more suitable for human-editable configuration files, without adding so many features that it’s incompatible with…
The maintainer of glibc, Ulrich Drepper, wrote an article called "Static Linking Considered Harmful". This is why his post is wrong.
Join us for a captivating closing keynote with the legendary Leslie Lamport, Turing Award winner and pioneer in the field of distributed computing. We'll discuss computing history, open source and distributed systems.
Just stop, y’all. It’s a waste of your time and your effort. Put down your Google search for an email regular expression, take a step back, and breathe.
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
Today's guest post comes from our friend, Jonathan Fisher over at TheCodeMechanic blog. He points out some rather interesting issues in the "Java fight"
Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) thinks that defects in safety-critical systems are caused by a lack of developer professionalism. I think he's wrong.
Lately, as I’ve had more experience with it, I’ve started to warm up to the language Go (aka “golang”).
Among the many proposed solutions, one of them strikes me as particularly clean: "asynchronous wait" or "wait and defer". iced-coffee-script had this a while ago. Kal just debuted with an identical solution, only differing in syntax. Supposedly LiveScript supports this with "backcalls" .
Occasionally I’ve needed to key a hash table with C pointers. I don’t care about the contents of the object itself — especially if it might change — just its pointer identity. For example, suppose I’m using null-terminated strings as keys and I know these strings will always be interned in a common table. These…
A blog about computers, functional languages, Lisp, and Scheme.
Lessons learned from 10 years at Google
A list of free, cross-platform GUI solutions for C++.
I think that there’s a lot of institutional knowledge in our field, especially about what makes for a productive engineer. But while there are a good deal of books in the management field about “expert” roles and responsibilities of non-technical individual contributors, I don’t see too many modern books or posts that…
An exploration of Go's portability limits when integrating with system-specific C libraries like libsystemd and dealing with glibc vs. musl systems.
The work Devin has been doing and how your team can start using Devin today.
In a previous blog post, I observed that one of the medium-termpossibilities we’re seriously considering for NTPsec is moving theentire codebase out of...
Let's say you have to write a C program to tokenize a string that contains a list of tokens separated by some delimiter, say a comma. You...
A recipe for a functional app, part 2
Learning about Programming Language Theory can be a tough journey, particularly for programming practitioners who haven’t studied it formally. This resource is here to help. Please feel free to get in touch if you have ideas for improvement.
We discuss how to make sure that your access to TLS (thread-local storage) is fast, and how the presence of constructors and shared libraries affects the access time.
The most common mistakes I found while writing react components, why they are mistakes and how to avoid or fix them.
If, like me, you've been frustrated with the status quo in systems languages, this article will give you a taste of why Rust is so exciting....
I’m inspired to write this post because Someone Is Wrong On The Internet. Of course a more accurate statement would be “I disagree with some aspects of what someone on the internet said, even though they have an entirely valid point of view”. But that’s less catchy. I saw a Tweet I violently agreed with, so I…
A technical walk-through of how we hacked Blackboard and changed our grades.
