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Fixing C's Biggest Mistake Home Fixing C's Biggest Mistake David Priver, June 14th, 2026 Back in 2009, Walter Bright (creator of the D programming language and Digital Mars C++ compiler before that), wrote an article arguing that C's biggest mistake was "…

Adding reflection to C Home Adding reflection to C David Priver, May 27th, 2026 Reflection in programming is the ability for a program to introspect its own datastructures and procedures, either at compile time or at run time.

VIM Macros are Overrated Home VIM Macros are Overrated David Priver, Nov 29th, 2024 Macros I'm a big VIM user and enjoy working in it, both professionally and recreationally.

C-macro-reflection-in-D Home C-macro-reflection-in-D David Priver, July 30th, 2024 I was reading Hacker News when I saw the link to this article.

Hashtable in C Home Hashtable in C David Priver, Jan 3rd, 2024 Contents Basic Reqirements Design Decisions Data Layout Implementation Deletion Alterations Conclusion Copyright There's many times when the problem you are solving needs something like a map…

C in WASM Home C in WASM David Priver, January 20th, 2023 Contents The Compiler The Flags The Standard Library malloc Strings Building the Code Instantiating the Code Debugging Profiling Demo Copyright If you search for information on how to compile C code

Doctests in C Home Copyright Doctests in C David Priver, July 30th, 2022 Doctests are a technique of testing the examples embedded in documentation.

_Generic for Type Reification in C Home _Generic _Generic for Tagging Use Cases Conclusion Appendix: Other Languages Copyright _Generic for Type Reification in C David Priver, July 29th, 2022 Occasionally, you need to turn a type into a value.

run(**vars(args)) Home run(**vars(args)) Copyright run(**vars(args)) David Priver, July 27th, 2022 Python has the pretty decent argument parsing module argparse as part of the standard library.

Templates in C Home Generics in C Void Pointers Function pointers Inline Macros Code Generating Macros Source Code Generation Copy Paste Template Headers with Multiple Inclusion Template Headers Example Usage Conclusion Copyright Templates in C David Priv…