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Aug 25, 2023 at 15:18
You know a software project has achieved popularity when people are using it on platforms other than Windows/Mac/Linux! For example, I noticed that the cc crate recently had fixes for AIX.

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Apr 27, 2026 at 23:27
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I sometimes see blog posts lamenting how inconsistent UIs are in modern apps. When did consistency peak? Windows 3? After the release of Aqua for macOS? The era when Bootstrap was the default CSS framework for many web developers?
Feb 11, 2025 at 16:48
I've released difftastic 0.63! In this release: * Better parsing of Elixir, LaTeX, Make, Nix, Rust and YAML * Better detecting of text encoding, especially on Windows * Prebuilt musl binaries, so you can run released binaries on older systems!
Release 0.63.0 · Wilfred/difftastic
Release 0.63.0 · Wilfred/difftastic
Difftastic is a structural diff tool that understands syntax. See the manual to get started, and the changelog for historical changes. Diffing When diffing directories, difftastic now ignores the ....
Jun 8, 2024 at 02:48
It is remarkably hard to escape command line arguments safely on Windows, and the standard libraries of multiple languages have needed patching:
BatBadBut: You can't securely execute commands on Windows
BatBadBut: You can't securely execute commands on Windows
Introduction Hello, I’m RyotaK ( @ryotkak ), a security engineer at Flatt Security Inc. Recently, I reported multiple vulnerabilities to several programming languages that allowed an attacker to perform command injection on Windows when the specific conditions were satisfied. Today, affected vendors published advisories of these vulnerabilities , so I’m documenting the details here to provide more information about the vulnerabilities and minimize the confusion regarding the high CVSS score. TL;DR The BatBadBut is a vulnerability that allows an attacker to perform command injection on Windows applications that indirectly depend on the CreateProcess function when the specific conditions are satisfied.