CI Dream

Slightly unusual genre --- with this article, I want to try to enact a change in the world. I believe that there is a missing IDE feature which is:

An article about a couple of relatively recent additions to my workflow which I wish I knew about years ago.

Why are there so many programming languages? One of the driving reasons for this is that some languages tend to produce fast code, but are a bit of a pain to use (C++), while others are a breeze to write, but run somewhat slow (Python). Depending on the ratio of CPUs to programmers, one or the other might be relatively more important.

In these two most excellent articles, https://without.boats/blog/let-futures-be-futures and https://without.boats/blog/futures-unordered, withoutboats introduces the concepts of multi-task and intra-task concurrency. I want to revisit this distinction --- while I agree that there are different classes of patterns of concurrency here, I am not...

An attempt at concise explanation of what io_uring is.