directories-rs & dirs-rs

Cargo: RFC & PR

Design Principles:

• Modern & Minimal
• Familiarity

Easy wins:

• Useful Syntax Sugar
• Use [], not <>
  for Generics
• Use ident: Type,
  not Type ident
• Use consistent casing
• Use consistent keyword length

Simplicity matters:

• Unary Operators are Unnecessary
• Binary Operators are Overused
• Annotations Obsolete Modifiers
  • Failed Attempts
• Drop break and continue
• Fields & Methods & Properties? Pick Two!

Mistakes were made:

• Popular, but Wrong
• Implicit Numeric Conversions
• Package Objects
• Notes on Rust

Rust compatibility:

• Time to wind down Rust feature development
• The lower bar of a hypothetical Rust 2.0

Equality & Identity:

1. Overview
2. Problems
3. Solution
4. Fixing Haskell
5. Fixing Rust
6. Fixing Swift

Unified Condition Expressions:

1. Introduction
2. Implementation
3. Exceptions
4. Comparison with Rust

Naming Conventions:

1. Creation
2. Conversion
3. Lookup
4. Streaming

Syntax Comparisons/Overviews:

1. Rigaux
2. PLDB
3. Hyperpolyglot
4. Chlipala

Efficient Memory Use:

1. Pointer Compression
2. Header Compression

Cranelift Backend:

• Instruction Selection
• Compiler Efficiency
• Correct Register Allocation
• A New Register Allocator

Ghosts of Unix Past

1. Design patterns
2. Conflated designs
3. Unfixable designs
4. High-maintenance designs

On ELF: Part 1 Part 2

scala-enum

scala-java-time

SBS

Documentation
& Website Overhaul