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Russ Cox

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Russ Cox

@_rsc

Go Hacker. Mistake maker. (he/him)

bsky app/profile/swtch.com

Joined March 2009

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Russ Cox
@_rsc
Apr 23
2024 resolution to stop posting here still in effect but updating forwarding address. Now at bsky.app/profile/swtch.… I'd been using russcox, but it looks like after the rename bluesky let someone else take it!
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Russ Cox (@swtch.com)
Russ Cox
@_rsc
Jul 15, 2020
Kudos to the hackers.
Russ Cox
@_rsc
Aug 12, 2022
why do unix assembly files use a .s extension? someone asked me today, and i didn’t know, so i asked ken. the .s is for source, just like .o is for object.
Russ Cox
@_rsc
Feb 23, 2022
I wasn’t going to say anything, but since ZDNet has republished the AWS “Sustainability with Rust” blog post, a short thread about why that post is misleading (at best) about Go. 1/
Russ Cox
@_rsc
Mar 14, 2022
Never understood recruiters who can’t be bothered to do even cursory research about who they send mail to. “We write our backend in Go (if you know Python, Rust, C or C++ we can easily teach it to you).”
Russ Cox
@_rsc
Jan 19, 2022
Knuth is making backwards incompatible changes to fix bugs in something he wrote 54 years ago (TAOCP volume 1, 1968)! www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news22.…
Russ Cox
@_rsc
Jun 5, 2018
I don't understand why people say git is hard to use. Look how easy it is to list all tags with their dates: $ git for-each-ref --format='%(if)%(committerdate)%(then)%(committerdate)%(else)%(*committerdate)%(end) %(refname:lstrip=2)' refs/tags/*
Russ Cox
@_rsc
Dec 11, 2021
Starting to think that making remote code execution a core feature in Java might not have been the best design choice.
Russ Cox
@_rsc
Aug 28, 2018
Wondering what's going on with Go 2, generics, and error handling? Don't have time to read 100 pages of docs? Watch this 5-minute video. #golang. youtu.be/6wIP3rO6On8
Russ Cox
@_rsc
Feb 23, 2022
Replying to @_rsc
Personally, instead of reading blog posts that pretend Go vs Rust is some kind of zero sum game, I would much rather focus on ways that Go and Rust complement each other and can work well together. Like this post: thenewstack.io/rust-vs-go-why… 14/14
Rust vs. Go: Why They’re Better Together
From thenewstack.io
Russ Cox
@_rsc
Dec 17, 2016
Intel published an open-source machine-readable (non-PDF) description of the x86 instruction set. github.com/intelxed/xed/t…
Russ Cox
@_rsc
Oct 1, 2020
My 7yo just looked at my computer screen - I was in the middle of a long GitHub issue reply - and asked: Are you doing work? (Yes.) Why aren't you writing programs?
Russ Cox
@_rsc
Jan 23, 2019
Our Software Dependency Problem. research.swtch.com/deps (Download and run code from strangers on the internet. What could go wrong?)
Russ Cox
@_rsc
Jun 29, 2021
New blog post “Hardware Memory Models”, first of a short series. research.swtch.com/hwmm