The Ivory Tower is a blog about software engineering and development philosophy by Anders Sundman.

With this post I will concentrate on the here and now: how to use C’s future lifesaving defer feature with existing tools and compilers.

There is a very common misunderstanding about the inline keyword in C99. Rumors go that this would just be a useless hint to the compiler, that generation of external symbols or not is left to the …

Writing an OS in 1,000 lines. Contribute to nuta/operating-system-in-1000-lines development by creating an account on GitHub.

The core OCaml system: compilers, runtime system, base libraries - ocaml/ocaml

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Posted by Joshua Bloch, Software EngineerI remember vividly Jon Bentley's first Algorithms lecture at CMU, where he asked all of us incoming Ph.D. ...

C is beautiful yet full of horrors. Here's to uncovering its hidden depths.

This article compares two tools, Sanitizers and Valgrind, that find memory bugs in programs written in memory-unsafe languages. These two tools work in very different ways. Therefore, while Sanitizers

I’ve been using Rust for hobby projects since 2016 and have been working professionally in Rust since 2021, so I tend to consider myself pretty knowledgeable about Rust. I’m already familiar with all the common limitations of Rust’s type system and how to…