programming

Sorry if the question is a little vague. Lately, I’ve been exploring functional languages, and I’m really ill-informed about them....

im really tempted to quit my job and make this thing that has no potential for income....

“Programming: Principles and Practice using C++ (3rd Edition)”, aka PPP3, is an introduction to programming for people who have never programmed before. It will also be useful for people who have programmed a bit and want to improve their style and technique - or simply learn modern C++. It is designed for classroom use, but...

I have forge accounts from three respective sites: GitHub, GitLab and Codeberg. In all of these forges, I’ve opted to use secret e-mail. The reason for this is that when I had my original e-mail, I was spam-bombed job roles by a company from Shanghai within the Linux foundation, called Zilliz. Apparently, they extracted emails...

The Khronos® Group, an open consortium of industry-leading companies creating advanced interoperability standards, announces the immediate availability of the OpenXR™ 1.1 specification. This release evolves the widely adopted OpenXR open API standard for high-performance, cross-platform access to VR, AR, and mixed reality...

By project, I am talking about a “virtual” instance. I get to use a computer on their server, but how? Are those virtual machines, or containers?...

I saw the video for C23 by ACCU, and I couldn’t help but feel that C2x has gotten a bit stricter than what I had learnt. Since this is based on my intuition, and that is not reflective of the reality, I was wondering if modern versions of the language post C99 is a little bit strongly-typed?

This is a small program I’ve come up with, with the intention of finding the root of a perfect square. I wanted some comments on the performance impact, as well as the use of resources....

Here’s the program:...

While the task of writing a brand new standard-compliant browser engine is infamous as being almost unachievable nowadays (and certainly so with Chromium coming in at 31 million lines of code), the Rust ecosystem has been brewing up a new web rendering engine called Servo. Initially created by Mozilla in 2012, Servo is still...

Qt 6.7 is out with lots of large and small improvements for all of us who like to have fun when building modern applications and user experiences. Several additions are released as technology previews, and we are looking forward to your feedback so that we can get everything ready for the next LTS release!

Most of the stuff went over my head, Why should I care that C is no longer low-level? What exactly is considered close-to-metal in today’s time, apart from binary and assembly?

I’ve recently come across arena allocator, and I can already see how they are a big improvement to the standard heap allocator present in C....

Cyclone was supposed to be a safer dialect of C. Shouldn’t it have replaced C by now, while also adding some improvements and reducing the burden of legacy code?

AMD’s HIP Ray-Tracing library “HIP RT” has been one of the few projects under the GPUOpen umbrella that starts off as closed-source software but then is eventually open-sourced… That happened now with the HIP ray-tracing code becoming publicly available.

If you’ve found yourself manually crafting complex Docker images or repeatedly installing tools, I’ve got something for you 😁...

There’s been a lot of noise recently about contributing to Open Source. Many developers contribute to Open Source projects for various reasons, including building their commit history for recruiters or gaining visibility through badges. However, experienced Open Source contributors have observed a troubling trend: contributing...

Andrzej Janik has released ZLUDA 3, a new version of his open-source project that enables GPU-based applications designed for NVIDIA GPUs to run on other manufacturers’ hardware. The wrapper technology is designed to enable existing applications to run on new hardware unmodified, without the need for any work on their...

I’ve been working on a small project called bdockerimg....

Release 14.2 of GDB, the GNU Debugger, is now available. GDB is a source-level debugger for Ada, C, C++, Fortran, Go, Rust, and many other languages. GDB can target (i.e., debug programs running on) more than a dozen different processor architectures, and GDB itself can run on most popular GNU/Linux, Unix and Microsoft Windows...

Vulkan 1.3.279 debuted on Friday with many fixes/clarifications to the specifications plus one new extension. The VK_NV_raw_access_chains extemsion should allow for more efficient shaders compiled from HLSL sources.

Extensions available in RISC-V enable the customizations that make it ideal as a basis for open innovation. Here’s the extension situation as it stands today.

This tutorial will teach you how to use the OpenXR API. OpenXR is an API managed by the Khronos Group which provides a cross-platform way for applications to interact with immersive devices. This includes virtual reality (VR) headsets, augmented reality (AR) devices, motion controllers and more.