6 posts tagged ‘Craft’
Retrofitting Spatial Safety to Hundreds of Millions of Lines of C++
mjtsai,
Google Security: Based on an analysis of in-the-wild exploits tracked by Google’s Project Zero, spatial safety vulnerabilities represent 40% of in-the-wild memory safety exploits over the past decade[…][…]A key element of our strategy focuses on Safe Coding and using memory-safe languages in new code.[…]However, this transition will take multiple years as we adapt our development […]
Taligent’s Guide to Designing Programs
David Goldsmith (1994, PDF, via Hacker News): If you browse the computer section of any technical bookstore, you’ll find many good books offering advice on how to do object-oriented design—books dealing both with general design principles and with design principles specific to C++. Why then does the industry need another book, one targeted not only […]
How to Control the World
Brandon Williams and Stephen Celis (2018, via Christian Tietze): While unconventional, we hope that it’s obvious that this solution of controlling dependencies is superior to the traditional solutions in use today. It also gives us an opportunity to reevaluate deep-seated beliefs we may have. We should continuously question our assumptions. In this case, we found […]
Triggering Swift Property Observers From Initializers
Natalia Panferova: In Swift, property observers such as willSet and didSet are not called when a property is set in an initializer. This is by design, as the initializer's purpose is to set up the initial state of an object, and during this phase, the object is not yet fully initialized. However, if we need […]
Dave Cutler Interview
Dave Plummer (via Hacker News): Dave Cutler is a seminal figure in computer science, renowned for his contributions to operating systems. Born in 1942, he played pivotal roles in the development of several OSes, most notably VMS for Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and Windows NT for Microsoft. Cutler’s design principles emphasize performance, reliability, and scalability. […]
Composable Architecture and Swift Observation
Brandon Williams and Stephen Celis (Mastodon): But now with the Observation framework you get to forget about almost all of that complexity, and just build your features in the most naive way, with basically zero adornments, and it just works. And it works in the most efficient way possible, where only the data accessed in […]