Jalil's Blog where he explains stuff he has been working on... maybe... Zola 2026-01-23T00:00:00+00:00 https://jalil.salame.cl/tags/language-design/atom.xml 2026-01-23T00:00:00+00:00 2026-01-23T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://jalil.salame.cl/blog/packages-and-mirrors/

<p>Modern programming languages include package managers and package repositories, but they seem to forget about the learnings from older system package managers that are system package managers and the tool they use to reduce the load on their infrastructure: repository mirrors.</p>

2023-07-15T00:00:00+00:00 2023-07-15T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://jalil.salame.cl/blog/crates-io-namespacing/

<p>Crates.io is great in many ways, but falls short in some important places. This are my thoughts on missed opportunities and <em>interesting</em> design decitions.</p>

2023-07-15T00:00:00+00:00 2023-07-15T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://jalil.salame.cl/blog/rust-2-0/

<p>I have used Rust for about 1.5 years now, and the hype has settled. Although I am pleased with the language, I do think it is by no meas perfect, this is a meta post about all the improvements I think could be made to it.</p>

2023-07-15T00:00:00+00:00 2023-07-15T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://jalil.salame.cl/blog/rust-references/

<p>Rust references are great <code>&amp;</code> is a real <code>const*</code> and <code>&amp;mut</code> being exclusive makes so much sense, but there is a missing reference type, do you know whaich one it is?</p>