📅︎ 06.12.2024 📝︎ 08.12.2024 ✏︎ by Evy ⏱︎ 10 kg⋅eV ±12σ Negative Overhead Abstractions Today i’d like to coin a new term: The Negative Overhead Abstraction™. In this post we’ll briefly explore C++’s use of them, their relation to zero overhead abstractions, why they suck, and how we could do better.
📅︎ 25.02.2024 ✏︎ by Evy ⏱︎ 9 kg⋅eV ±12σ C#’s two NULLs In my work time i do a lot of C#. Inevitably i also run into a lot of nullable data. This is a short story of how i tried to make dealing with nullable data cleaner, coming from languages with monadic Option types. Did it go well? No.