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Just by adding a good module/package system, Rust will be a significant step in system programming.

I'm amused that googling for Linux kernel commit hashes actually works.

It's remarkably hard to criticise cons cells. I enjoy lisp programming so much that I feel rather guilty.

Blogged: Trifle: Lists and CONSequences http://t.co/L4uVUNpe0j

Arch Linux is wonderful, slick and up-to-the-minute most of the time, then every once in a while you burn an afternoon fixing an upgrade.

Superb discussion of the tradeoffs with TCO: http://t.co/VvtPPg7laS

"GNU emacs is at least as powerful as commercial versions of emacs which sell for 1000s of dollars." Times change!

Saw a bash script today that started with eval `perl -e ... and decided not to read the rest. Yikes!

Fixing 'error messages that amount to "you did something wrong, you ignorant buffoon"' http://t.co/A9zGeShLUY

Step debugging with Rust online! http://t.co/8XsHYyNsnb Impresive.

Stop major modes clobbering your favourite key bindings: http://t.co/0xC3xbiV2W

Some remarkable C macros: http://t.co/7OUYeHXBdt and http://t.co/wDmRned0Kg . Imagine what C would be like with a real macro system!

Tools that treat the paths /foo/bar and /foo/bar/ differently violate the principle of least surprise.

I was confused by company-mode for some time. Turns out it's not about company coding conventions, but completion. Should be comp-any-mode.

C is nice on Travis. No external package servers to break your builds at inopportune moments.