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This is kinda possible already today with the Kitty graphics protocol, I made a demo here of rendering 3D graphics[1] with kitty. The actual important missing thing (and which ratt…

I recently came across this style of interpreter which V8 and HotSpot use. It works by actually writing the bytecode op handlers in assembly (or some other low-level language) and …

I am totally fascinated by programmers who don't use many of the IDE features I take for granted today: autocomplete, language servers, and recently copilot So to the devs who don'…

> Note that the context pointer came after the “standard” arguments. All things being equal, “extra” arguments should go after standard ones. But don’t sweat it! In the most common…

Does anyone have any insight on why the PikeVM implementation is slower (it's based on the VM approach described here https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp2.html ) I feel like compi…

Most of the time you don't need to do this, usually its the solution for when creating a graph structure with cyclic references. But when you do, and your data is mutable, generati…

Hey HN, I got inspired by a recent hack someone did of creating flappy bird in MacOS Finder, so I tried to do the same with type-level Typescript. If you don't know, Typescript's t…

I don't do anything related to data science, but I feel like doing it in Rust would be nice. You get operator overloading, so you can have ergonomic matrix operations that are type…

> These "clean code" principles should not, and generally are not, ever used at performance critical code, in particular computer graphics. I agree that this is mostly true, but ma…

Can you elaborate more about the guarantees about no waste?