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If TigerBeetle is the Zig flagship then Zig is untenable for almost any team, because Tiger Style is untenable for almost any team. No, I think that Tiger Style makes Zig mostly unimportant.
On the other hand, as a corporate backer for Zig, TigerBeetle is definitely a big deal.
But in terms of exemplary and imitable projects in the ecosystem I would think something like Ghostty is the safer label for "flagship".
They are indeed different. In Zig you might get the allocator via a struct field or just via importing the global allocator.
const std = @import("std");
fn makeBuffer(n: usize) ![]u8 {
return std.heap.page_allocator.alloc(u8, n);
}
https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/blob/bun-v1.3.14/src/install/...
https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/blob/bun-v1.3.14/src/shell_pa...
The allocator via function parameter is only a convention and only even one convention. It is certainly a strong convention (throughout the standard library anyway) but it is just a convention.
Recent Rust also has the ability to pass allocators but that's the same thing. And even if you use no_std in Rust you might call into some other library's no_std function that allocates and you wouldn't be able to grep for that.
Supabase customers run it (marked alpha).
https://supabase.com/blog/orioledb-launch
And they continue to work on it.
Snowflake acquired Crunchy Data yes and Craig was at Crunchy Data.
Pangram says the text is entirely AI generated but I don't know how trustworthy Pangram is. (I would love to hear what others think about it.)
Thank you! I've made an edit crediting you. This also led me to notice the nonallocating attribute in Clang, which I've now mentioned as well.
I was also always curious about this and recently wrote a few implementations of an http file server to teach myself the key differences.
https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/05/18/serving-files-three-wa...
It's nice to have some proof to show people.
Tart was just bought by OpenAI so its future is suspect.
The movie was really beautifully done and I've wanted to read the book itself. Rest in peace.
They submitted with a spare Q at the end of the url.
Agreed.
I keep thinking about doing future ones semi-public (need to sign up to be allowed to post) but I already spend more time on the book club than I particularly want to so I mostly just keep doing the same thing which works fine enough. It's also not unlikely we'd repeat a book in a few years (for example we'll read DDIAv2 probably next year). So for now, join the mailing list and new readings as they happen.
If you start one your own way and you read interesting books I will happily tell people about yours. :)
Me too. Everyone should email O'Reilly.
Known as the VCV Tower, or vertical continuous vulcanization, the 660-foot tall structure allows for the assembly of miles of cable at a time, with gravity naturally helping pull the material down and make it tighter.
LS GreenLink’s South Korean-based parent company LS Cable & System has a similar tower in Donghae. This will be first of its kind in the United States.
https://www.wavy.com/news/local-news/chesapeake/developers-b...
Hey folks! I'm sorry, I didn't expect a paywalled article to get posted here and I don't have the means at the moment to give out gift links (the site is entirely custom other than the use of Lemon Squeezy for payments) but if you check back in a week the paywall will expire.
You can also in the meantime check out Monastery, the project that automates Hermitage on GitHub: https://github.com/theconsensuslabs/monastery.
I do not publish any AI writing.
The Accord developers mostly work at Apple so it would seem Apple at least wants/needs ACID transactions for Cassandra.
Not if I can help it!
When I find speakers for NYC Systems I do ask them not to speak about their experience with AI (at least that the talk should not be entirely about this) because of exactly this risk of being distracting and immediately out-of-date.
However, I think it can be a useful signal to understand if/how experienced developers in major software infrastructure projects are using AI today. So I plan to keep asking the question.
His work is very cool and I was impressed by the thoroughness and thoughtfulness of his responses.
Despite the article, infowars.com at least doesn't really seem to be run by The Onion yet? But I'm looking at that site for the first time so I have no idea.
I also don't really understand how being correct under physical branching with ZFS, or physical backups of a filesystem, are different from crash safety in general. As long as you replay the WAL at the point where you branch (or take a physical backup of the filesystem) you should not lose data?
At the same time Postgres people don't seem comfortable with the idea in practice so I'm not sure if this is actually ok to do.
If you'd like visibility, I pay experienced developers a small fee to write educational articles on software infrastructure. While you cannot write about your own projects, your byline in the article is a good place to say that you're looking for work (employment or contract).
Very cool! If you want to see a much simpler version of this I wrote an article a few years implementing a stack language in Postgres PL/pgSQL similar to what this one does.
https://notes.eatonphil.com/exploring-plpgsql-forth-like.htm...
Related but not the exact same thing as https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/07/the-disappearing-form-d/ (2018).
Yeah I have thought about zstd but it seemed like roughly a wash. Also most of the comparisons between zstd and brotli seemed to have been done years ago. Worth exploring in an article sometime though...
If you're curious to see what everyone else is doing, I did a survey of over 100 major source available projects and four of them banned AI assisted commits (NetBSD, GIMP, Zig, and qemu).
On the other hand projects with AI assisted commits you can easily find include Linux, curl, io_uring, MariaDB, DuckDB, Elasticsearch, and so on. Of the 112 projects surveyed, 70 of them had AI assisted commits already.
https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/03/02/source-available-proje...
I was looking up database startups in the SEC's EDGAR database and could not find filing info about most of them. I guess everyone stopped doing this.