D: Building DMD and Phobos on Linux
I’ve recently been having a deeper look into the D programming language, because writing a JIT on top of .NET turned out to be extremely hard without interfering with the .NET runtime. I didn’t quite...
View ArticleDemystifying Garbage Collectors
There seems to be a lot of confusion among developers on how garbage collectors actually work. They really aren’t as magical as some people think; in many ways, some garbage collectors are actually...
View ArticleArray Slices and Interior Pointers
The D programming language has the concept of a slice. Slices are a neat way to do data processing with arrays but have a fundamental flaw, related to garbage collection, that I’ll explain here. I’ll...
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