Stories by benhoyt

Before Fortnite, There Was ZZT: Meet Epic’s First Game

How efficient can cat(1) be?

Duck typing is safe (2020)

The Tools I Use to Write Books (2018)

What I didn't do to write a book (2017)

A Faster Lexer in Go

An Introduction to Generics in Go 1.18

Show HN: Prig – like AWK, but uses Go for “scripting”

Prig: Like AWK, but uses Go for “scripting”

Moving Python's Bugs to GitHub

Frawk: A fast, JITted, statically-typed AWK written in Rust

What's Coming in Go 1.18

What's Coming in Go 1.18

Optimizing GoAWK with a bytecode compiler and virtual machine

Microservices solve a people problem, not a technical one

The Go compiler needs to be smarter (2020)

The Vaccine Moment, part two

The Vaccine Moment, part one

Go 1.17: Faster software through register-based calling

Back to basics: Writing an application using Go and PostgreSQL

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