Hacker News with Generative AI: Systems Programming

No-Panic Rust: A Nice Technique for Systems Programming (reverberate.org)
Can Rust replace C? This is a question that has been on my mind for many years, as I created and now am tech lead for upb, a C library for Protocol Buffers. There is an understandable push to bring memory safety to all parts of the software stack, and this would suggest a port of upb to Rust.

Rust, Systems Programming, Programming Languages, C

204 points by chmaynard 18 days ago | 138 comments

What every systems programmer should know about concurrency (2020) [pdf] (bitbashing.io)

Concurrency, Systems Programming, Computer Science

196 points by ibobev 71 days ago | 102 comments

What every systems programmer should know about concurrency (2020) [pdf] (bitbashing.io)

Concurrency, Systems Programming, Programming, Computer Science

12 points by ibobev 73 days ago | 3 comments

Waiting for many things at once with io_uring (mazzo.li)
When doing systems programming we often need to wait for something to happen. Common examples might be waiting for some data to come through a socket or waiting on a lock. We also often want to wait on any of several conditions to become true. A web server might be handling many sockets at once, waiting for any number of them to become readable or writeable.

Systems Programming, Operating Systems, Linux, Networking, I/O

122 points by ashvardanian 99 days ago | 30 comments

Ask HN: C Language Successors (ycombinator.com)
For those of you who have experimented with potential C language successors, what are pros and cons and your experiences with them? I am talking about languages like Zig, Odin, C3, Hare, V and possibly Nim and Crystal, assuming that they are considered systems programming languages.

Programming Languages, C Language, Systems Programming

6 points by blueredmodern 132 days ago | 10 comments

Waiting on many things at once with io_uring (mazzo.li)
When doing systems programming we often need to wait for something to happen. Common examples might be waiting for some data to come through a socket or waiting on a lock. We also often want to wait on any of several conditions to become true. A web server might be handling many sockets at once, waiting for any number of them to become readable or writeable.

Systems Programming, Asynchronous Programming, Linux

3 points by rostayob 152 days ago | 0 comments

A reawakening of systems programming meetups (eatonphil.com)

Systems Programming, Community, Events

392 points by paulgb 229 days ago | 160 comments

Ask HN: Can anyone recommend a Windows Systems programming book? (ycombinator.com)

Windows, Programming Books, Systems Programming

123 points by Alekhine 270 days ago | 78 comments