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Very nice post Robin! And so honest! Subscribed via my rss reader.

I also forgot to add one thing that tripped me recently but I am sure a solution exists for it that I am not aware of. In Debian we do: apt-cache search It gives quick results. The…

NixOS and Guix are nice! Guix folks are doing some wonderful work off late. I have used NixOS for a while. But for casual desktop GNU/Linux users, it seem like solving a problem th…

Christian Kellermann wrote this nice "Code it yourself Manifesto" [0] that always rings true with me. It is more important now than ever before. I believe OP is talking more or les…

Same. I am in the industry for 20+ years and thankfully none of my jobs have involved anything close to ads.

I have been meaning to learn the Plan 9 dialect of C but haven't gotten around to it.

I too learned C from K&R and really loved it. I did not have any other thing to do and there was no internet and no one telling me that C is bad. Nor was I aware of other cool lang…

Sure, but that is meant as a personal thing and not meant as a general statement. Everyone should evaluate whether the book (any book) works for their needs. The main reason is tha…

I didn't enjoy this book, to be blunt. K&R still holds up as an interesting read, despite it not being updated to latest ANSI C standards. It is probably not a good first book. A f…

Awesome! Thanks.

Thanks so much for giving us BigBlueButton. Some of the folks in the Debian community have been trying to package it up in Debian and found it a bit challenging that some of the de…

Relevant: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html

Interesting! Is there any document that I can read about your reimplementation? Or any code?

Exposing something as files is kind of like a "protocol". The alternative would have been a library (implemented in a language) that would make things confine itself to the ecosyst…

keybase is unfortunately one of those programs that combine many things into one - somewhat antithetical to the Unix philosophy of doing one thing well. For kbfs, tahoe-lafs is a n…

There is tahoe-lafs. Give it a try.

Thanks. Where can I see the second edition draft? edit: This one? https://github.com/rust-lang/book.git

> Many of Rust's designers are experienced systems programmers. A _lot_ of effort goes into making it systems-ready. That is promising. Thanks. I am certainly playing with it at ho…

> Systems programming does not preclude a language from having a good type system or higher level abstractions. I didn't say that system programming does not need a good type syste…

Great. They all look great. The ones like higher kinded types are the ones that I am highly suspicious of. The typical C programmer who pokes around hardware data sheets and writes…

Another gripe I have is that the Rust Book examples are all targeted at non-system programmers. It would have been nice if certain programs written in K&R book or from one of those…

May I ask what those big ones are? How is it going to affect/improve the life of a systems programmer?