The Art of Doing Nothing: Microsoft’s ‘Old New Thing’ Explores the Logic of Idle States
A deep dive into the architectural logic of 'doing nothing' in software development, as highlighted by Microsoft's long-running Old New Thing series.
Tag: advanced programming
The ‘Super Tiny Compiler’ Goes Ada: A Minimalist Experiment in Language Design
A new implementation of the Super Tiny Compiler in Ada has appeared on GitHub, bringing a minimalist approach to compiler design to a language known for safety and…
Bridging the Gap: How Haskell is Being Used to Model Complex Profunctor Equipment
Exploring the intersection of category theory and functional programming through the lens of Haskell's profunctors and type-level verification.
The ‘Native’ Trap: Why macOS Developers are Quietly Returning to Electron
A veteran Apple developer reveals the hidden struggle of building rich-text chat interfaces in SwiftUI and why Electron remains the pragmatic choice for modern apps.
Zig 0.16 Introduces Standardized I/O, But Developers Are Already Looking to Third-Party Runtimes for True Async Performance
Zig 0.16 brings a cross-platform I/O interface, but the current threaded implementation struggles with scale. See how the Zio library is filling the gap.