Mara BosDec 15, 2022

🦀📕 Rust Atomics and Locks is now available as ebook! 🎉

Pre-ordered printed copies should start shipping in a few weeks. ⌛️

#rustlang

https://marabos.nl/atomics/

Rust Atomics and Locks by Mara Bos

Low-level Concurrency in Practice. This practical book helps Rust programmers of all levels gain a clear understanding of low-level concurrency. You'll learn everything about atomics and …

Show threadMara BosDec 15, 2022
I'm very pleased I got the timing just right to include this very subtle joke about out-of-order execution and missing happens-before relationships.
Show threadmirabilosDec 15, 2022
@Mara on the other hand, though, this is one of the best reasons to stay clear off Rust as a whole
Show thread Naughtylus Dec 15, 2022
@mirabilos wat
Show threadmirabilos
@Naughtylus some of my C code compiles on pre-1990s compilers and works well…
Dec 15, 2022 at 5:30pmWeb
Show thread Naughtylus Dec 15, 2022

@mirabilos Oh okay you're shaming rust's backward-compatibility policy, gotcha.

I thought you were actually replying to the toot

Show threadGustavo MuenzDec 15, 2022
@mirabilos @Naughtylus why would you compile on a 1990 compiler?
Show threadmirabilosDec 16, 2022
@gustavomuenz @Naughtylus because I like porting my shell to weird systems, such as ULTRIX