Nibble Stew

A gathering of development thoughts of Jussi Pakkanen. Some of you may know him as the creator of the Meson build system. jpakkane at gmail dot com

Saturday, September 6, 2025

Trying out import std

Since C++ compilers are starting to support import std , I ran a few experiments to see what the status of that is. GCC 15 on latest Ubuntu ...

Sunday, August 31, 2025

We need to seriously think about what to do with C++ modules

Note: Everything that follows is purely my personal opinion as an individual. It should not be seen as any sort of policy of the Meson buil...

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Reimplementing argparse in Pystd

One of the pieces of the Python standard library I tend to use the most is argparse . It is really convenient so I chose to implement that i...

Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Let's properly analyze an AI article for once

Recently the CEO of Github wrote a blog post called Developers reinvented . It was reposted with various clickbait headings like GitHub CEO...

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Comparing a red-black tree to a B-tree

In an earlier blog post we found that optimizing the memory layout of a red-black tree does not seem to work . A different way of implement...

Friday, July 11, 2025

AI slop is the new smoking

Saturday, July 5, 2025

Deoptimizing a red-black tree

An ordered map is typically slower than a hash map, but it is needed every now and then. Thus I implemented one in Pystd . This implementati...

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