Working with large C codebases

Thu, 29 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Searching for symbols

The product that I work on, has over 22 million lines of source – most of it a nightmare. I use vim as my editor of choice ¹. Both cscope and ctags (integrated into vim), allow me to quickly move between files and lookup definitions of symbols, and help in understanding the challenge-du-jour.

Throw in fuzzy find capabilities of the most awesome Ctrl+p plugin, and vim becomes the best ‘IDE’ out there!

Elixir - A crash course

Sun, 06 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000

These are notes from the official Elixir documentation. It a quick walk-through of the unique features in Elixir for someone coming from years of C — a way for me to remember and use as a reference.

Summary

Types

Atoms

Named contants with a value. true and false are atoms.

Strings

Supports unicode string natively! It’s about time. ¹
You can concatenate strings using <>. "hello" <> " world".

Anonymous functions

Native support for closures – called anonymous functions. Also, functions are first-class, i.e. can be passed as arguments into other functions. Special syntax is required to invoke ananymous functions.

Elixir on Shivanand Velmurugan — Product leader. Systems thinker.