Garbage Collection for Systems Programmers

“Our programs are fun to use.” – Unsung

A blog about software craft and quality

A new way to bring garbage collected programming languages efficiently to WebAssembly · V8

“They had no concept of a duty of care to their users.” – Unsung

A blog about software craft and quality

Looking Back: oh, how much I’ve been wrong in the past

I’m starting to write this blog post while sitting in a room full of system administrators and system…

“I think there’s a lot of value in these.” – Unsung

A blog about software craft and quality

Open Source and Free Software Considered Harmful — marisa's "blog"

(It's best to read this blog post after reading Steve Klabnik's The culture war at the heart of open source and What comes after “open so...

A practical guide to WebAssembly memory | radu's blog

Memory in WebAssembly is one of the topics that creates confusion for newcomers, particularly for those with experience in languages with memory management features like garbage collection, such as JavaScript, Go, or Java. In this article we explore using memory in WebAssembly in various scenarios - passing JavaScript arrays to Rust and AssemblyScript modules, checking for some basic memory leaks using Valgrind, or exchanging strings between runtimes and modules using Wasmtime.

Who wrote this shit? | Philip Heltweg

Trashing legacy software is fun. It creates camaraderie.

Software Should Be Allowed to Be Weird - Ewan’s Blog

A fairly large amount of the software I write would probably die in a corporate planning meeting. There would be questions about the target audience, the bu…

Coding agents as the new compilers - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

kyju.org

Horribly misusing Rust features to provide provable memory safety and tracing garbage collection for pointer soup.

Building GhostOff and our networked, personalized software futures - Boris Mann Tech Blog

In which I agentic code Ghost to Offprint script and fall into the future of networked code sharing with Vit

Signals and Threads

Stephen Dolan works on Jane Street’s Tools and Compilers team where he focuses on the OCaml compiler. In this episode, Stephen and Ron take a trip down memory lane, discussing how to manage computer memory efficiently and safely. They consider trade-offs between reference counting and garbage collection, the surprising gains achieved by prefetching, and how new language features like local allocation and unboxed types could give OCaml users more control over their memory.

It’s time to drain the Programmatic Swamp - New Digital Age

"Large parts of the programmatic ecosystem are a scam, and I don't mean slightly inefficient or in need of a tidy-up," writes Daniel Gilbert for New Digital Age...