Blog System/5
Julio MerinoA newsletter on operating systems, build systems, programming languages, software engineering, and my own software projects. Specifics include FreeBSD, Linux, Rust, Bazel and EndBASIC.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 60 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 12 days ago |
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An old-new take on argument parsing in Rust
Over the years, I’ve written tens of command-line applications in many different languages—shell is probably the top contender, believe it or not—and for various ecosystems. Along the way, I’ve developed… let’s say… opinions on how they sho...
Autoconf’s revenge: ad-hoc shell templates
As powerful as Bazel is, sometimes it’s not featureful enough. When using this build system, it’s common practice to wrap it in a launcher script—and in fact, this is natively supported by Bazelisk, Bazel’s native dispatcher that stands for...
Is anyone still using Emacs?
In a recent discussion at the orange site sparked by the Emacs 31 Is Around the Corner: The Changes I’m Already Daily Driving article, people were asking themselves “Is anyone still using Emacs?” and then providing their own perspective.
F...
A Markdown-based test suite
This article is not about AI and it is not written with AI, but the work that I’m about to present was definitely motivated by AI. And because I generally like telling stories, I have to give you that background. Do with that whatever you w...
What if there was no BASIC in EndBASIC?
Six years have passed since I started building EndBASIC: a retro-looking BASIC interpreter that works on the web, on the desktop, and on embedded hardware—and that allows writing cross-platform apps that leverage graphics, a cloud file shar...
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