🦀 Move Expressions
A nuanced exploration of Rust’s ownership ergonomics that highlights how explicitness can improve async and systems programming readability and safety.
The author introduces ‘move expressions’ — a proposed feature to make Rust’s reference counting and closure captures clearer and more explicit. Using syntax like move(expr), developers can control how variables are moved into closures, improving ownership clarity and unifying attached and detached closure behaviors. The post examines practical examples and design trade-offs shaping Rust’s evolving ergonomics.
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🦸♂️ 1939 Superman Comic Sells for Record-Breaking $9.12 Million
A nostalgic and uplifting reminder of how pop culture artifacts can transcend time and value, blending family discovery with historic preservation.
While cleaning their late mother’s attic, three brothers unearthed an original 1939 Superman comic that later fetched a record $9.12 million at auction — the highest price ever paid for a comic book. Rated 9.0 by CGC, its exceptional preservation was credited to California’s mild climate, turning a forgotten family box into a piece of cultural history.
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🐧 Interposing Static Binaries with LD_PRELOAD — Yes, It’s Possible!
An elegant engineering solution that extends dynamic analysis to static binaries, unlocking new debugging and build optimization possibilities.
A QEMU patch now allows LD_PRELOAD-style interposition even on static binaries, which typically evade dynamic linking. By rerouting syscalls through libc, developers can leverage tools like Firebuild to trace, cache, and analyze static executables during builds. This breakthrough improves reproducibility and performance in complex hybrid toolchains.
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