Nearly every line of code I write for fun is in Rust. It's not because I need great performance, though that's a nice benefit. I write a lot of Rust because it's a joy to write code in. There is so much else to love about Rust beyond going fast without segfaults. Here are a few of my favorite things…

Back in 2021, I wrote that “Semantically ordered arguments should be lexically ordered too.” Two minor updates in that area, which are large enough to deserve a post of their own. clamp in x86-64 SSE2 assembly A blogger who goes by “1F604” points out that “gcc and clang sometimes emit an extra mov…

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This week I learned an interesting and dismaying fact: C++11’s range-based for loop and C++20’s ranges::begin/end use different protocols to find the “beginning” and “end” of a range! For the range-based for loop ([stmt.ranged]), the bounds of the loop are determined together, as a pair: If rg is an…