So ATM, I'm in the middle of writing a reader writer spinlock. My question is why a standard one doesn't exist?

For example, pthreads have spin lock, and a full reader writer lock. Is this niche, or is there a fundamental reason this is a bad idea?

#cplusplus #systemprogramming #concurrency

#CaseStudy - TrueLayer's main business is not #systemprogramming, yet they decided to bet on #Rust. Why? How?

Luca Palmieri shares their adoption story, expectations, challenges, doubts, the mistakes they made & the lessons they learned.

#InfoQ video: http://bit.ly/3HZnctc

#rustlang #transcript

Guile (and Python, and others ?) and C are interoperable

Can the same interoperability level be achieved with, say, Nim or Zig ?

#systemprogramming #thewayforward

Nice article from 2018 on what happens when you do a printf() in Linux.

https://www.maizure.org/projects/printf/index.html

Via Hacker News [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21517613 ]

#Linux #Unix #Programming #SystemProgramming