Posts on Shepherd's Oasis

Statement on RustConf & Introspection

Tue, 30 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

On Friday, 26 May 2023, one of our collaborators — JeanHeyd “ThePhD” Meneide (AKA “Björkus Dorkus”) — was put in a position where he needed to consider withdrawing a talk related to our work on a possible future for compile-time reflection in the Rust Programming Language. We agree with his assessment of the situation and support his withdrawal from RustConf 2023. We support JT’s resignation from the Rust Project and stand in solidarity with them.

A Mirror for Rust: Compile-Time Reflection Report

Sun, 30 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

With a powerful trait system, compile-time constants, and where-and-:-style bounding for types and constants, Rust’s take on generic functions has been a refreshing departure from the anything-goes, Wild Wild West, errors-only-when-called template system of C++. Furthermore, its macro system has been a much needed replacement of C’s underpowered macro system, allowing users to actually generate code in a consistent and dependable manner at compile-time, with the ever-powerful Procedural Macros (“proc macros”) taking care of some of the heaviest language extension tasks. But…

Postponing CoSy Tech

Thu, 29 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

It is after great deliberation that we have to announce CoSy Tech Con will be delayed to a year, sometime around October 2022.

Planted Seeds - Unicode Transcoding in 2021

Sat, 26 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

My name is Shepherd, and I have recently taken an interest in helping out ThePhD’s Unicode work for C++. The end goal of being able to transcode out of the system encoding and other shenanigans has not been fully realized in a Standard’s document. However, I am pleased to say we have made significant advancements that should make 2021 a successful year for Unicode capabilities in C and C++.

Catching a Use Case: Fallible Allocators

Sun, 15 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

It turns out there are two kinds of allocators in the world, and out of the Systems Programming languages we deal with here, C++ has the most special one!

typeof(...) for ISO C

Tue, 10 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

ThePhD here, and I’m going to tell you about a fun little extension to C called typeof! It’s is a vendor extension that yields the type of an expression.

New CppCast Episode!

Sun, 08 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

JeanHeyd “ThePhD” Meneide co-hosted a CppCast episode with Aaron Ballman, Peter Brett, and the main host Rob Irving!

New Website, New Chapter

Mon, 19 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000

We are so glad you’re here!