Programming Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 24, 2022

• Rust’s addition to the Linux kernel seen as “enormous vote of confidence” in the language - SD Times

  The release candidate for the latest version of the Linux kernel was announced last month, and one of the highlights in the release notes for Linux 6.1 is the inclusion of the initial infrastructure for adding Rust as a language.

  Rust has been growing steadily in popularity through the years, and though according to the 2022 Stack Overflow Developer Survey 9 percent of developers use it, it has spent seven years in the top spot for “most loved” language. In this year’s survey almost 87% of developers said they love Rust, which is about 10 percentage points higher than the second-most loved language, Elixir.

• Pi IoT In Python Using Linux Drivers - GPIO Character Driver

  The GPIO driver in Linux used to be GPIO sysfs but no longer now its the GPIO character driver. Find out how to do GPIO control the modern way.

• We're streamers now | Trail of Bits Blog

  We’ll share detailed technical presentations on fuzzing smart contracts, and guide attendees to write invariants for them in our first six workshops. Engineers will go over fuzzer setup, how to identify invariants—from simple to complex—and how to translate these invariants into code.

• How to make a scatterplot in R | R (for ecology)

  Now that you’ve learned the very basics of plotting from our earlier tutorial on making your very first plot in R, this blog post will teach you how to customize your scatterplots to make them look better. If you want to take this even a step further, check out my step-by-step tutorial introduction to publication-quality scatterplots.