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unix-history-repo
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F/OSS Comics: 8. The Origins of Unix and the C Language
There is also https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo (Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today)
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Kernighan and Pike were right: Do one thing, and do it well
FWIW, ls in Research-V6 back in 1975 had 10 options. https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Researc...
By BSD 3 in 1980 it had 11 options. https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/BSD-3-S...
The thing is, we can see even from the 1970s 'ls' how the Unix model doesn't meet the goal "to chain these simple programs together to create complex behaviors".
There is no option to escape or NUL terminate a filename, making it possible to construct a filename containing a newline which makes the output look like two file entries.
The option for that was added later.
There's also the issue that embedded terminal codes will be interpreted by the terminal.
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The original source code of the vi text editor, taken from System V
This is what it looked like about 7-8 years earlier: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/BSD-1/e...
- Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today
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50 Years in Filesystems: 1974
RA92 (1989): 16 ms / 8.3 ms.
Note that the RL02 (and V7) and RA92 mentioned in the article are separated by about a decade.
[1] https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Researc...
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Unix: An Oral History
The earliest version I could find [1] is already written in C.
[1] https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Researc...
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Linux is not as smooth as windows
Here's a 1997 citation for "top cpu processes." It's not as close to the original 1984 release as I would like, but it's better than Wikipedia. https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/commit/aee34003d7964653c44c31f5bf6bcf136b32c4f3
- GitHub was Founded in 2008 But...
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GPT based tool that writes the commit message for you
> The “why” goes into the PR and more importantly, engineering documentation and inline comments
This just ensures that the “why” is lost when someone comes looking years later.
From experience, SCM metadata is far more durable than just about any other work product we produce. Five decades later and RCS commit info was still available for the Unix sources, and history could be reconstructed: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo
I’ve used 35-year-old commit messages to help understand a long-standing issue, decades after all other related organization tooling and data had disappeared.
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What should be included in a history of the Rust language?
P.S. I remember I looked into early versions of C (they survived in Unix historic releases) and that, finally, revealed to me why C does something really stupid and conflates arrays and slices (pointers). Initially C had no arrays! Or, rather, what it called arrays were, actually, pointers. “Normal” arrays were added at some point, but because these weird slices/pointers were already there that caused endless confusion. It wasn't resolved before C became popular and after that it was too late. Go repeated that mistake with slices, of course.
rust
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Create a Custom GitHub Action in Rust
If you haven't dipped your touch-typing fingers into Rust yet, you really owe it to yourself. Rust is a modern programming language with features that make it suitable not only for systems programming -- its original purpose, but just about any other environment, too; there are frameworks that let your build web services, web applications including user interfaces, software for embedded devices, machine learning solutions, and of course, command-line tools. Since a custom GitHub Action is essentially a command-line tool that interacts with the system through files and environment variables, Rust is perfectly suited for that as well.
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Why Does Windows Use Backslash as Path Separator?
Here's an example of someone citing a disagreement between CRT and shell32:
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/44650
This in addition to the Rust CVE mentioned elsewhere in the thread which was rooted in this issue:
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/04/09/cve-2024-24576.html
Here are some quick programs to test contrasting approaches. I don't have examples of inputs where they parse differently on hand right now, but I know they exist. This was also a problem that was frequently discussed internally when I worked at MSFT.
#include
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I hate Rust (programming language)
> instead of choosing a certain numbered version of the random library (if I remember correctly) I let cargo download the latest version which had a completely different API.
Yeah, they didn't follow the instructions and got burned. I still think that multiple things went wrong simultaneously for that experience. I wonder if more prevalent uses of `#[doc(alias = "name")]` being leveraged by https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/120730 (which now that I check only accounts for methods and not functions, I should get on that!) so that when changing APIs around people at least get a slightly better experience.
- Rust Weird Exprs
- Critical safety flaw found in Rust on Windows (CVE-2024-24576)
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Unformat Rust code into perfect rectangles
Almost fixed the compiler: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/123325
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Implement React v18 from Scratch Using WASM and Rust - [1] Build the Project
Rust: A secure, efficient, and modern programming language (omitting ten thousand words). You can simply follow the installation instructions provided on the official website.
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Show HN: Fancy-ANSI – Small JavaScript library for converting ANSI to HTML
Recently did something similar in Rust but for generating SVGs. We've adopted it for snapshot testing of cargo and rustc's output. Don't have a good PR handy for showing Github's rendering of changes in the SVG (text, side-by-side, swiping) but https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/121877/files has newly added SVGs.
To see what is supported, see the screenshot in the docs: https://docs.rs/anstyle-svg/latest/anstyle_svg/
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Upgrading Hundreds of Kubernetes Clusters
We strongly believe in Rust as a powerful language for building production-grade software, especially for systems like ours that run alongside Kubernetes.
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What Are Const Generics and How Are They Used in Rust?
The above Assert<{N % 2 == 1}> requires #![feature(generic_const_exprs)] and the nightly toolchain. See https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/76560 for more info.
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