As the author of GoAWK, an AWK interpreter written in Go, I was wondering one day how hard it would be to translate AWK programs into Go code. Couldn’t be that hard, right? I decided to try it.
Source: AWKGo, an AWK-to-Go compiler, an article by Ben Hoyt.
Like many others, I spend enough time in the shell that even small improvements can yield huge productivity gains. This post is an attempt to catalog several of quality-of-life enhancements I've made over recent months to my shell setup.
Source: A modern, ergonomic Unix shell configuration with Fish, an article by Jonathan E. Magen.
Spack is a package management tool designed to support multiple versions and configurations of software on a wide variety of platforms and environments. It was designed for large supercomputing centers, where many users and application teams share common installations of software on clusters with exotic architectures, using libraries that do not have a standard ABI. Spack is non-destructive: installing a new version does not break existing installations, so many configurations can coexist on the same system.
Source: Spack.