Programming

Software Development Link to heading

• Technical debt as a lack of understanding (Dave Rupert, 2020)

Languages Link to heading

Rust Link to heading

Rust¹ is becoming a very popular language. I personally want to write everything in Rust because it provides a lot of the security of runtime memory safe languages (e.g. Python, Javascript (V8), Go) without the runtime overhead. It also provides a bunch of features which none of those languages have like Algebraic Types and pattern matching².

Here is an in-depth article explaining how rust’s memory safety works. Like, what is it actually protecting and how does it work?

Example of converting C programs to rust over time using TinyVM as the example. Using Cargo to build the C program and then replacing the C functions and structs with rust ones then disabling that part of the C code you can eventually replace the whole C program piece by piece. You can also write tests to ensure that before and after the change the code works the same.

• Rust’s fearless concurrency in practice

Zig Link to heading

Zig is another language which is attempting to replace C (like Rust), but does not have all the same safety features.

One of the main contributors suggests replacing the build systems of C projects with Zig to make cross-compilation easier as well as enabling the use of Zig on the projects to slowly replace C without requiring a rewrite.

Frontend Development Link to heading

Frontend really needs it’s own section because of how many unique things there are about it. Namely that it’s all running in a browser so it’s either Web Assembly or Javascript.

React Link to heading

• zustand store which seems really neat because it’s very ergonomic react state management solution
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