Stories by fanf2

‘Like’ is an infix now, which is un-like-believably innovative

A brief history of the Erlang BEAM compiler

Web Prolog: Erlang-Style Distributed Concurrency in SWI-Prolog

Functional baby talk: analysis of code fragments from novice Haskell programmers

A new form of matter may lie just beyond the periodic table

Unlocking intersection types with `var` in Java 10

Where do Rust threads come from?

LiteBSD: 4.4BSD for microcontrollers

RetroBSD: Unix for microcontrollers

Making key parts of the Ordnance Survey (OS) MasterMap freely available

A convenient excuse: tech's discrimination problem

Automatic type coercions with procedural macros in Rust

Enforcing TLS protocol invariants by rolling versions every six weeks

Between the coats: a sensitivity read changed my life

The Legend of Old Man Henderson

Anders Hejlsberg on modern compiler construction. (YouTube)

Slaacd: userland IPv6 interface autoconfiguration in OpenBSD [pdf]

Forget reusability, aim for perfection: New lessons from mandoc in OpenBSD [pdf]

PCG: a family of better random number generators

Xoshiro/xoroshiro random number generators and the PRNG shootout