This Pokémon gets it. #ziglang

Roc (roc-lang.org) is being rewritten in Zig instead of Rust, with a pretty extensive document of "why". Pretty interesting read: gist.github.com/rtfeldman/77fb…

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Big language release month. go 1.24 and zig 0.14 in the same month. Looking forward to it

🧨 Go 1.24.0 is released! 📝 Release notes: go.dev/doc/go1.24 ⬇️ Download: go.dev/dl/#go1.24.0 #golang

A bunch of alternate icon choices are coming in Ghostty 1.1.1. 😍 You already have the ability to customize the colors of the default Ghostty icon, but these artist-drawn variants are super cool and will help make your Ghostty style more you.

New post! A Descent Into the Vortex In which Oskar Wickström introduces our intentionally non-deterministic testing harness, Vörtex! Complementing DST, it increases coverage with generative testing. Four months old, two bugs (and this is the beginning!) tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-02-1…

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Congrats to the #ziglang team on the 0.14 release, it’s finally here! release ziglang.org/download/0.14.…

I think the #ziglang community would benefit greatly from some sort of zig upgrade/fix command that automated the process of going from one version to the next sans all of the manual labor involved.

When did it become a standard Twitter etiquette to split every single tweet into two: one including a “teaser?” screenshot of what you of that you are tweeting about and then a separate tweet with the actual link without context.

I wish every cs curriculum started and ended with a course on logical fallacies so that the next generation of software engineers would be more well equipped to cut through the bs marketing our industry as evolved into en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_f…

After 14 years of service, ZooKeeper will be officially gone from Apache Kafka starting… next week. 👀 By now, you should know about KRaft. It is Kafka's implementation of Raft - its protocol for achieving distributed consensus. ✨ This consensus is used to: • determine the

If the Rust community had this mentality more generally, I think I would’ve been more inclined to it (I still simply dislike the syntax subjectively, though). Steve says his experience was kindness that brought him there and for me it was unfortunately the opposite. Snobbery

"While traditional DB’s speak SQL, TigerBeetle speaks Debit/Credit." Swana Simran Singh, Application Developer at Thoughtworks medium.com/@swanasimran/u…

Kelly Sommers reminds me of this comic which is almost 30 years old

Just keeping an open mind. During a time when competing usurpers want you to run and hide from c, a true story of how curl keeps its c codebase reliable and maintainable. Spoiler alert, it’s mostly what you’d do with any other language daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/04/0…

"Modern C" - from Manning This book on "C" Programming is available FREE.