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verdagon

2,146 karma · joined May 25, 2018

Lead for the Vale programming language (https://vale.dev/), hobbyist game programmer, Mountain View refugee, and overly enthusiastic blogger (https://verdagon.dev)
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A new way to think about borrow checking (in reverse)

verdagon.dev·132 pts·verdagon·
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Valen's Memory Safety: A New Kind of Borrow Checking

verdagon.dev·184 pts·verdagon·
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The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026

shnatsel.github.io·209 pts·verdagon·
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Fearless SIMD v1.0

linebender.org·318 pts·verdagon·
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The Impossible Optimization, and the Metaprogramming to Achieve It

verdagon.dev·9 pts·verdagon·
1

Group Borrowing: Zero-cost memory safety with fewer restrictions

verdagon.dev·85 pts·verdagon·
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Understanding SIMD: Infinite complexity of trivial problems

modular.com·257 pts·verdagon·
116

Layer-wise inferencing and batching: Small VRAM doesn't limit LLM throughput

verdagon.dev·2 pts·verdagon·
0

The Type of Sprintf

ryanbrewer.dev·13 pts·verdagon·
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Rhovas: A programming language for API design and enforcement

rhovas.dev·2 pts·verdagon·
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You Need More Constraints

borretti.me·3 pts·verdagon·
0

Five Years of Rhovas

blog.willbanders.dev·1 pts·verdagon·
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Experimenting with Memory Management for Basil

degaz.io·2 pts·verdagon·
0

Single Ownership and Memory Safety Without Borrow Checking, RC, or GC

verdagon.dev·3 pts·verdagon·
1

What’s the Smallest Variety of Cheri?

msrc-blog.microsoft.com·1 pts·verdagon·
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Sources of Complexity: Constraints

hillelwayne.com·2 pts·verdagon·
0

Implementing a New Memory Safety Approach, Part 1

verdagon.dev·5 pts·verdagon·
0

Hash Codes, Non-Determinism, and Other Eldritch Horrors

verdagon.dev·3 pts·verdagon·
0

What is Systems Programming, Really? (2018)

willcrichton.net·1 pts·verdagon·
0

Which Programming Languages Use the Least Electricity?

thenewstack.io·1 pts·verdagon·
1

Next-Gen Language Features: User Code on the GPU

verdagon.dev·2 pts·verdagon·
0

Vale 0.2 Released: Higher RAII, Concept Functions, Const Generics, FFI, Modules

verdagon.dev·1 pts·verdagon·
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Added to Vale 0.2 Beta: Concept Functions

verdagon.dev·2 pts·verdagon·
1

On removing let and let mut

verdagon.dev·33 pts·verdagon·
20

Surprising Weak-Ref Implementations: Swift, Obj-C, C++, Rust, and Vale

verdagon.dev·8 pts·verdagon·
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Data races in Python, despite the Global Interpreter Lock

verdagon.dev·85 pts·verdagon·
70

Seamless, Fearless, and Structured Concurrency

verdagon.dev·1 pts·verdagon·
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Generational references: 2.3x faster than reference counting (unoptimized)

vale.dev·11 pts·verdagon·
0

Vale's Generational References

vale.dev·14 pts·verdagon·
0

Zero-Cost References with Regions

vale.dev·6 pts·verdagon·
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