Hacker News with Generative AI: Systems Programming

Zig: A new direction for low-level programming? (bitshifters.cc)
Zig is a general-purpose systems programming language designed by Andrew Kelley. The language bills itself as “a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software”.
Programming Languages, Systems Programming, Low-Level Programming
49 points by ksec 13 days ago | 2 comments
Zig: A new direction for low-level programming? (bitshifters.cc)
Zig is a general-purpose systems programming language designed by Andrew Kelley. The language bills itself as “a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software”.
Programming Languages, Systems Programming, Low-Level Programming
27 points by hmac1282 14 days ago | 106 comments
Ask HN: How do you get into systems programming (ycombinator.com)
Programming, Systems Programming, Career Advice
13 points by otherayden 26 days ago | 5 comments
Ask HN: Memory-safe low level languages? (ycombinator.com)
I am looking for memory-safe languages that can be used for systems/graphics programming. I love Rust, but it often feels like too massive a language with too much stuff going on. Is there a language like C, which is simpler (obviously without all the UB and other problems)?
Programming Languages, Systems Programming, Memory Safety
61 points by hyperbrainer 26 days ago | 117 comments
The Jakt Programming Language (github.com/SerenityOS)
Jakt is a memory-safe systems programming language.
Programming Languages, Systems Programming, Memory Safety
108 points by gw2 63 days ago | 48 comments
Austral: A Systems Language with Linear Types and Capabilities (2022) (borretti.me)
Austral is a new systems programming language. You can think of it as Rust: The Good Parts or a modernized, stripped-down Ada. It features a strong static type system, linear types, capability-based security, and strong modularity.
Programming Languages, Systems Programming, Security, Linear Types
155 points by yamrzou 65 days ago | 35 comments
Zinc, a systems programming language prototype (sr.ht)
Zinc is my attempt at a low-level systems programming language prototype.
Programming Languages, Systems Programming, Prototypes
136 points by birdculture 72 days ago | 79 comments
Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language are you using? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language are you using?
Programming Languages, Systems Programming, Hacker News
287 points by fuzztester 83 days ago | 448 comments
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 109 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 162 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 164 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 190 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 224 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 243 days ago | 0 comments
A reawakening of systems programming meetups (eatonphil.com)
Systems Programming, Community, Events
392 points by paulgb 320 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 361 days ago | 78 comments