In the previous post , we explored the IR—the compiler’s working format where devirtualization, inlining, and escape analysis happen. The IR optimizes your code at a high level, making smart decisions about which functions to inline and where values should live—on the h...
Books I read in 2025, in no particular order. Permutation City - Greg Egan Was recommended to me by Alex Matrosov. Mind-bending exploration of consciousness, reality, and virtual worlds. Dense but rewarding.
Faking it till you make it isn’t always the best strategy in life, but it can be a useful one in software engineering. Here’s an easy way to create a local HTTP server for testing Rust API clients.
Quick takeaways Complexity comes from two extremes - projects fail both when they’re overcomplicated with unnecessary patterns and when they’re oversimplified for a complex domain Essential vs accidental complexity - essential complexity comes from the domain itself...
mdBook is a tool for easily creating books out of Markdown files. It's very popular in the Rust ecosystem, where it's used (among other things) to publish the official Rust book. mdBook has a simple yet effective plugin mechanism that can be used to modify the book output in arbi...
Here’s a small quiz derived from some incorrect advice from an AI coding assistant. This program prints two timestamps; will they be a. Roughly the same time (ie, the same second)b. Roughly 10 seconds apartc. Something else Answer after the fold
#583 — December 17, 2025 Read the Web Version 🎄 It's the last issue of 2025, so we're looking back over some of the big stories and links of the year. Also, Go Weekly will be moving to Fridays in January 2026, as part of a reshuffle for many of our new...
In the previous posts , we’ve explored how the Go compiler processes your code: the scanner breaks it into tokens, the parser builds an Abstract Syntax Tree, the type checker validates everything, and the Unified IR format serializes the type-checked AST into a compact bin...