26 March 2019

22 links · Tuesday

The 2007 Lyttle Lytton Contest

"What? Those are the winners?! Where is my glorious entry? Dammit, you wouldn't know funny if it bit you on the ass!"

.NET Design Review: AssemblyLoadContext improvements

-17:-02:-08 - Approved: API proposal AssemblyLoadContext.ActiveForContextSensitiveReflection https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/36236#issuecomment-476796579 00:42:56 - Approved: AssemblyLoadContext .NET Core 3.0 improvements https://github.com/dotnet/cor…

Stable Filtering  —  Part 2

How to make a filter than can be implied an infinite number of times without producing artifacts and remain nearly indistinguishable from the original image.

dotnet/coreclr

CoreCLR is the runtime for .NET Core. It includes the garbage collector, JIT compiler, primitive data types and low-level classes. - dotnet/coreclr

zio/zio

ZIO — A type-safe, composable library for asynchronous and concurrent programming in Scala - zio/zio

142: Super Speed with AOT & LLVM

What about performance? How fast can C# possibly be on the iPhone? What if we told you it is a 1 to 1 and Frank can prove it as he wrote a way of compiling C/C++ code directly to .NET Standard and then measured performance of C to LLVM to IL to LLVM to Native!…

AutoMapper's Design Philosophy

While a lot of people use AutoMapper, and love it, I meet just as many people that hate it. When I hear their stories, it becomes clear to me that it's not that AutoMapper was "abused" per se, but that it was used without understanding why AutoMapper…