systems-programming

2 articles

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Microsoft's LiteBox 0.1: A Rust Library OS for Apps That Don't Trust Their Host

First tagged release of Microsoft's sandboxing library OS — a smaller host interface, an MIT license, and an experiment worth watching.

10 Oct 20263 min

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build-systems

Linux

Zig 0.17 Rebuilt Its Build System — Here's What Breaks and What's Faster

Five months, 206 contributors, and a build-system rework that temporarily breaks ZLS but brings near-instant rebuilds on Linux. A practitioner's read of the Zig 0.17 release.

3 Oct 20264 min