Const-first functions
Today, as far as I'm aware, Rust has two variants of const functions: const-capable functions that are only used as const when called from const context (regular const fn) "comptime" const functions that can only be…
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Making ServiceLoader usable: a provider factory
I keep coming back to java.util.ServiceLoader. I have used it to put a JSON layer behind a contract, so the core code carries no direct dependency on any particular JSON library, and I can swap the implementation…
Effect Handlers in OCaml
A command-first tour of OCaml 5 effects: perform, handlers, generators, and where domains and eio fit in.
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.plan-26-28: What fun papers piled up while I was out at sea
Back from the Arctic into a heatwave, hacking on Eio for the TESSERA sync engine, the Conservation Evidence team demoing at Parliament, and TESSERA on stage at the RAISE Summit in Paris.