3/7/2023 There are endless debates online about Rust vs. Zig, this post explores a side of the argument I don't think is mentioned enough. I was intrigued to learn that the Roc language rewrote their standard library from Rust to Zig. What made Zig the better option? They wrote that they were using a lot…
Once you become an engineering executive, an invisible timer starts ticking in the background. Tick tick tick. At some point that timer will go off, at which point someone will rush up to you demanding an engineering strategy. It won’t be clear what they mean, but they will want it, really, really badly. If we…
Hello! I’ve been writing some Javascript this week, and as always when I start a new frontend project, I was faced with the question: should I use a build system? I want to talk about what’s appealing to me about build systems, why I (usually) still don’t use them, and why I find it frustrating…
