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Nov 5, 2017 at 22:15
Entertaining, broad overview of approaches to error handling in different programming languages!
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May 17, 2025 at 11:05
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I've written difftastic packaging instructions: https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/packaging_difftastic.html The different distros have taken different approaches, so I'm trying to help with common gotchas — don't forget the man page! Feedback welcome, especially if you've ever packaged something 🙂
Packaging Difftastic - Difftastic Manual
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Jan 5, 2021 at 06:55
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I've been tinkering with some garbage collection approaches for a toy language. Comparing refcounting with mark-and-sweep, the latter seems less error-prone. 'Values in list X but not in Y' is less scary to implement than 'every incref should have a decref'. Agree/disagree?
Nov 12, 2019 at 18:28
Designing a GUI library for Rust, and an excellent overview of the many different approaches taken in GUI frameworks:
Rust 2020: GUI and community
In response to the call for blogs about the vision for Rust for 2020, I’m going to write about GUI. I believe the time is right for a native GUI toolkit written in Rust, and that such a thing would fill a very important niche. There is a demand for performance (which, to me, includes startup time, RAM footprint, and binary size), and Rust is in the best position to deliver on that.