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RISC-V port submitted for inclusion in GCC
This is the mail archive of the gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
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A step-by-step guide to building a simple chess AI
Let’s explore some basic concepts that will help us create a simple chess AI:
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How to Write Portable C Without Complicating Your Build
Suppose you’re writing a non-GUI C application intended to run on a number of operating systems: Linux, the various BSDs, macOS, classical unix , and perhaps even something as exotic as Windows. It might sound like a rather complicated problem. These operating systems have slightly different interfaces (or very…
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How to Version an API
News, tips, and tricks from the team at Fly
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Red Programming Language 0.6.3
This new Red release contains ~830 commits, closes 86 issues , and brings a large number of new features. The main one is official support...
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Working on Chrome made me develop a tool for reading source code
Coati is a developer tool for fast and efficient source code navigation and exploration. This is the story of how an internship at Google…
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Kalman filters and functional programming
A paper on Kalman filtering and functional folds that I alluded to previously has been split into several papers and posted online.
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UIDebuggingInformationOverlay
Update, December 9, 2017: This overlay still exists, but this post’s instructions don’t work on iOS 11 and later. In an update to his excellent book, Advanced Apple Debugging and Reverse Engineering, Derek Selander describes how to get the panel working in iOS 11. He’s generously posted the chapter for free here.While…
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Ways to Get Better at C++
Expressive code in C++
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PostgreSQL's Hash Indexes Are Now Cool
Since I just committed the last pending patch to improve hash indexes to PostgreSQL 11, and since most of the improvements to hash indexes w...
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Rust: A Scala Engineer's Perspective
Looking back at my year of Rust. Part reflection, part waymark.
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Why many developers still prefer Objective-C to Swift
Lack of ABI stability, slow compile times, poor Xcode support, and more hold Swift back
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Key differences between Python 2.7.x and Python 3.x (2014)
Many beginning Python users are wondering with which version of Python they should start. My answer to this question is usually something along the lines…
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Improving startup time in Atom with V8 snapshots
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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JavaScript performance, WebAssembly, and Shared Memory in Microsoft Edge
JavaScript performance is an evergreen topic on the web. With each new release of Microsoft Edge, we look at user feedback and telemetry data to identify opportunities to improve the Chakra JavaScript engine and enable better performance on real sites. In this post, we’ll walk you through some new features coming to…
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Designing state machines
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AWS Cloud9 – Cloud Developer Environments
One of the first things you learn when you start programming is that, just like any craftsperson, your tools matter. Notepad.exe isn’t going to cut it. A powerful editor and testing pipeline supercharge your productivity. I still remember learning to use Vim for the first time and being able to zip around systems and…
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Writing a Unix Shell – Part II
Building your own UNIX shell in parts. This post explains how to execute commands.
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Firefox 57 as the first release where only WebExtensions will be supported
Update: this post was updated to reflect a change in how we determine when Firefox will run in multiprocess mode. Firefox won’t run in multiprocess mode unless add-ons are explicitly ...
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Game Engine Black Book Postmortem
I am pleased to announce that the Game Engine Black Book about Wolfenstein 3D has shipped. It is 316 pages, full color and made of three parts describing the hardware of 1991, id Software tools, and the game engine internals. You can read a preview on Google Books and buy it here: