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Hi Hacker News, I'm working on a c compiler from scratch and am in a bit of a deadzone figuring out how I can test the generated AST and assembly output. I'm specifically having a …

I agree it's totally worth it! I'm lucky that I have just enough free time to debug these things and I work with a few excellent Linux devs who have helped me with a few things. Th…

In case anyone wants to point me in the right direction or give me some pointers, I’m a lifelong windows developer who switched to Linux (Ubuntu 24.04 lts) on my personal desktop a…

I would love separate variable initialization vs assignment. I know that ship has sailed. It's interesting, I never cared about that until I did "Crafting Interpreters" and realize…

Thanks for the info. Using different containers for build and test vs the packaged app makes a lot of sense. > easier if you don't have to worry about compatibility with the target…

I've never really worked with containers in my professional career and I'm learning about them now. It's hard to tell from reading online if people are using them for their dev env…

I like Black and Pylance, which is backed up pyright. Pylance and VS Code for dev time analysis (even though it has a few annoying issues like auto-importing the wrong paths) and p…

Sorry for focusing on such a small part of your comment. I’m learning about language design (as much as I can) and I don’t really understand what you mean by “double dispatch like …

One way to know if it’s a .Net client is you can run ILDasm or DotPeek against the windows binary and see if it decompiles it.

Not an easy job, but fishing, especially crab fishing in Alaska pays well and you get more than the summer off if you want. Here are the fishing seasons: https://www.adfg.alaska.go…

Hey HN, I'm curious about what happens to engineers who have unvested stock grants at Twitter. Do they get cash instead, do they immediately grant, or do they go poof and disappear…

I switched to using RipGrep at https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep It's native, really really fast, supports regex, and has nice defaults. The only catch is you need to understan…

Thanks, this makes a lot of sense. I'd like to think I was slowly closing in on this. Mine isn't as clean as what you put but I made the data within each of the enum possibilities …

I'm working through the excellent Crafting Interpreters book and learning Rust at the same time by writing the interpreter in the first part of the book in Rust. For anyone who has…

Thanks for the great and clear explanation, it makes more sense now! (a lot more sense) I didn’t know that Rust support for a LLVM target isn’t free and didn’t realize micro-contro…

Explaining my experience - I haven't done any hardware or firmware programming besides messing around with Ardunios. I have written a low amount of C (tiny VM for toy language) and…

There is a low probability I would rent a space like that. If I lived somewhere close enough to have deserted woods (where there could be multiple cabins with trails) within a 20 o…

I completely agree. Because I think this area is really interesting I'm going to add a few more thoughts. The first web service I built used a table inside the production database …

Really easy and good homegrown logging. Use a structured logging library, this is key because it lets you easily filter on the properties attached to a log event. Then log those to…