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Rust, Zig, C and the machine underneath.
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Rust, Zig, C, and the machine underneath them. Memory layout, lifetimes, allocators, atomics, and the slow pleasure of making something measurably faster. Beginners are welcome because the compiler is hard on everyone — post the error in full and somebody will sit with it.
Topics
- Rust
- Zig & C
- Performance
- Help wanted
Recent discussions
- Borrow checker fight: tree with parent pointersQuestion · Rust · Sep 30, 2026 · 11 replies
- Rust: six months in, including what did not workPerformance · Sep 26, 2026 · 7 replies
- Branch prediction explained most of my 40% regressionPerformance · Sep 21, 2026 · 5 replies
- A toy allocator in Zig, 600 lines, documentedZig & C · Sep 9, 2026 · 8 replies
- Performance: where would you tell a beginner to start?Question · Performance · Sep 6, 2026 · 2 replies
- Rust: the best money I could spend right now?Question · Rust · Aug 26, 2026 · 8 replies
- Performance: how do you keep going past the interesting part?Question · Zig & C · Aug 23, 2026 · 8 replies
- Zig & C: am I solving the wrong problem here?Question · Help wanted · Aug 21, 2026 · 8 replies
- Performance: the advice I had to unlearnPerformance · Aug 20, 2026 · 6 replies
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