Programming Languages, Martials Arts and Computers. The Weblog of Chris Double.
Recently Robert O'Callahan wrote a post on what Rust can do that other languages can't. It involves getting a pointer to an internal field of a stack allocated object and having the type system ensure that the lifetime of that pointer doesn't outlive the owning object. As soon as I saw this I thought "Aha, ATS can do that!" but... more →
ATS is a programming language I've used a lot in the past. A new version was released a while ago, ATS2, that resulted in various library and language changes and I never got around to transitioning my code to it. Many of my existing posts on ATS are still relevant but some syntax has changed and many of my examples... more →
rkt is a container runtime I've been using on a few projects recently. I was creating a container for Mozart which uses emacs as an IDE. This requires running an X11 application within the container and have it displayed on the host display. To get this working I needed to mount my hosts X11 unix domain socket inside the container... more →
Shen is a lisp based programming language with some interesting features. Some of these include: more →
This post outlines a method of using Freenet over Tor based on posts I wrote on my Freenet hosted blog and subsequent discussions about it. If you read my Freenet hosted blog there's little new here, I'm just making it available on my non-freenet blog. One issue I've had with Freenet is that it exposes your IP address to peers.... more →