Exploring garbage collection accelerators in CPUs: https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/this-little-device-relieves-a-cpu-from-its-garbage-collection-duties
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Excellent collection of advice for building CLI apps in Rust. It's really helpful to see opinions on e.g. should env vars take precedence over CLI arguments.
https://rust-cli-recommendations.sunshowers.io/
This is really neat: an online collection of programs that can pass the type checker but fail at runtime, in a bunch of languages (Java, Scala, OCaml, Haskell, Rust): https://counterexamples.org/runtime-misinformation.html
It also discusses the design tradeoffs that led to these behaviours.
Open source is increasingly a collection of projects, each run by a single maintainer; https://nayafia.substack.com/p/22-working-in-public