Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig(gist.github.com)

322 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 237 comments

A GitHub Gist by Richard Feldman explaining why the Roc programming language's compiler is being rewritten from Rust in Zig.

Obfuscating Lua (2019)(gist.github.com)

39 points by shakna 2 years ago | 10 comments

Hofstadter on Lisp (1983)(gist.github.com)

360 points by Eric_WVGG 2 years ago | 204 comments

A GitHub Gist reproducing Douglas Hofstadter's 1983 Scientific American introduction to Lisp, "Atoms and Lists," from Metamagical Themas.

LMDB: The first version of Redis, written in Tcl (2009)(gist.github.com)

180 points by avinassh 3 years ago | 61 comments

Think twice before abandoning X11. Wayland breaks everything(gist.github.com)

10 points by em-bee 1 year ago | 4 comments

Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them(gist.github.com)

513 points by jeffbee 1 year ago | 323 comments

A GitHub Gist explaining how rebuilding Ubuntu's jq package from the same source with different build options yields about 90% better performance.