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I've started learning Zig, a new programming language in the same problem space as C, and it has some features I really like. While it's not memory-safe in the Rust way, it has a lot of compile time and runtime checks to prevent common footguns. It has packed structs and variable-width integers to allow for easy parsing of bitpacked binary formats. Its comptime metaprogramming capabilities are spectacular. And it even interoperates seamlessly with C!
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[AI summary] This post discusses the complexities of creating safe Foreign Function Interface (FFI) bindings in Rust when calling C++ code, examining tools like cxx and strategies for maintaining Rust's memory and thread-safety guarantees despite the inherent unsafety in such interactions.
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[AI summary] A retrospective on the author's experiences with Haskell and Hadoop, highlighting their initial hype, eventual maturity, and the trade-offs between abstraction and control in modern programming paradigms.
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