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Writing a .NET Garbage Collector in C# – Part 1
First part of a series of articles about writing a .NET Garbage Collector in C# using NativeAOT. This part sets the expectations and setups the project, dealing with the first difficulties.
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The Future of Programming – Interview with Richard Eisenberg
Listen in on Jane Street’s Ron Minsky as he has conversations with engineers working on everything from clock synchronization to reliable multicast, build systems to reconfigurable hardware. Get a peek at how Jane Street approaches problems, and how those ideas relate to tech more broadly.
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Goroutines and APIs
Goroutines are a unusual and powerful programming language feature, so they are a tempting toy to play with, and they get a bit overused.
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How Stacks Are Handled in Go
At CloudFlare, We use Go for a variety of services and applications. In this blog post, We're going to take a deep dive into some of the technical intricacies of Go.
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Building an IBM Watson-powered AI Chatbot in 50 lines of code
Developing a speech-to-text bot using IBM’s Supercomputer.
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JDK 9: Pitfalls for the Unwary
JDK 9 is in the final phases of development, heading towards release on September 21st. The public review consideration ballot for the Java Platform
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Emacs Lisp Readable Closures (2013)
I’ve stated before that one of the unique features of Emacs Lisp is that its closures are readable . Closures can be serialized by the printer and read back in with the reader. I am unaware of any other programming language that has this feature. In fact it’s essential for Elisp byte-code compilation because…
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New Programming Jargon
Every field comes up with its own jargon, and oftentimes subgroups within a field come up with their own specific words or phrases (those of you familiar with Microsoft Canada’s Developer and Platform Evangelism Team know that we have our own term for “broken”, named after one of our teammates who is notorious for…
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Emacs and shellcheck
Julia Evans had a great talk called Making Hard Things Easy . One of the takeaways for me was that I should be using tools for parts of a ...
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Between Two Lisps (2020)
Out of all Lisps the ones I’ve come to appreciate the most are Scheme and Common Lisp.
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Tagged Pointer Strings
Tagged pointers are an interesting technology used to increase performance and reduce memory usage. As of OS X 10.10, NSString got the tagged pointer treatment, and today I'm going to take a look at how it works, a topic suggested by Ken Ferry.
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Language Pragmatics Engineering
On best practices and gradient descent.
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Lmgrep: Lucene-based grep-like utility
Introduction to `lmgrep`: what is it and what it isn't. My a motivation to build it.
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Building StatHat with Go
How StatHat uses Go, and why they chose it.
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Rust's Object System
On the rust-dev mailing list, someone pointed out another “BitC retrospective” post by Jonathon Shapiro concerning typeclasses . The Rust object system provides interesting solutions to some of the problems he raises. We also manage to combine traditional class-oriented OOP with Haskell’s type classes in a way that…
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Zig 0.10.0 Release Notes
Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust , optimal , and reusable software.
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Forgejo v13.0 Is Available
Forgejo v13.0 was released on 16 October 2025. You will find a short selection of the changes it introduces below and a complete list in the release notes .
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Cursed Linear Types in Rust
Inspired by Jack Wrenn’s post on Undroppable Types in Rust, I set out to see if it’s possible to create types that must be used exactly once. From my understanding, those things are called linear types, but don’t quote me on that1. Unless you are quoting the title of this article which explicitly says linear types… I…
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