@alilleybrinker's Notes

This is a repo for public notes which I haven't found a home for elsewhere. The intent is not that this serves as a blog, but more as a holding place for writing which I'd like to preserve and which doesn't have a clear new home for publication.

Table of Contents

• [technostructuralism.md]: A reproduction of a 2019 Twitter thread on Rust, C, free software, and ideology.
• [string-types-in-rust.md]: A reproduction of a 2016 post on my now-defunct programming blog Suspect Semantics, about Rust's string types and how they work.
• [monomorphization-bloat.md]: A reproduction of a 2016 post on my now-defunct programming blog Suspect Semantics, about how use of generics in Rust can bloat binary sizes.
• [implementation-selection.md]: A description of options in Rust for doing type-based selection of implementation path, comparing and contrasting generics, generics with sealed traits, trait objects, and enums.
• [renegotiating-c.md]: Some thoughts on the transition of power away from C and C++.