Using fragments for secure data has been discussed before on hn: https://hackertimes.com/item?id=23036515. Tldr: it may not go directly to the server (unless you are using a buggy browser or web client) but the fragment is captured in several places.

That hasn't been true for a few years at least. https://www.jetbrains.com/help/clion/cmake-debug.html is has had CMake debugging since cmake 3.27. Ditto for vscode and probably other C IDEs I am not familiar with. So does Gradle for Java. GNU make is hardly exclusive.

> One reason is that far more of their students actually applied than would be expected.

This sentence is buried midway through the article. It would be good for a future post to expand on this ... how much is explained by students simply applying more frequently to their local schools. This explanation was the only plausible explanation in the article I saw answer "why".

> students simply applying more frequently to their local schools

Cheaper to live at home nowadays

If you were looking at the parse link in the author's comment, you were looking at a spec (called a module interface in OCaml/OxCaml, similar to an interface in Java). The parse implementation is at https://github.com/avsm/httpz/blob/240051dd5f00281b09984a14a...

That said, I would be happy if all I needed to type in was a spec.

Since the link is paywalled, the TLDR paragraph is:

> Boasberg said in the ruling that the FTC had incorrectly excluded YouTube and TikTok from the market where it challenged Meta's dominance. "Even if YouTube is out, including TikTok alone defeats the FTC’s case," the judge said.

I agree. Meta does not have a monopoly since they compete with TikTok.

> The first main disadvantage is that they require the kernel to support syscall tracing, which essentially means they only work on Linux. I have Ideas™ for how to get this working on macOS without disabling SIP, but they're still incomplete and not fully general; I may write a follow-up post about that. I don't yet have ideas for how this could work on Windows, but it seems possible.

On Windows, Linux, and also macOS with SIP disabled (as implied, disabling is a bad idea), the https://github.com/jacereda/fsatrace executable exists today and can trace filesystem access. It is used by the Shake build system.

In particular, https://neilmitchell.blogspot.com/2020/05/file-tracing.html mentions that Shake copies system binaries to temporary folders to workaround the SIP protection. That blogpost also mentions other problems and solutions (like library preloading).

Good advice but still:

> investors warn the good times won’t last forever

Umm ... these aren't short-term investors. They are investing because they think at least one of their bets will pay-off.

Introduction paragraph:

Metalang99 is a firm foundation for writing reliable and maintainable metaprograms in pure C99. It is implemented as an interpreted FP language atop of preprocessor macros: just #include <metalang99.h> and you are ready to go. Metalang99 features algebraic data types, pattern matching, recursion, currying, and collections; in addition, it provides means for compile-time error reporting and debugging. With our built-in syntax checker, macro errors should be perfectly comprehensible, enabling you for convenient development.

Not OP, but I think it does run Postgres as a process. However, IMHO the general use case for SQL is for external actors (humans, machines) to get access to the underlying data in a structured way. So I see a benefit for a true in-process embedding of Postgres if the process exposed a Postgres TCP/IP port 5432, etc. (Hook your software up to a query tool, a reporting interface, etc.)

Beyond that, why care whether the "embedding" involves a spawned process? It still works great for integration tests which I suspect is the main use case, and for specialized data analysis software where a spawned process is no big deal.

Can you have a socket that's only shared between a parent and child process?

This sounds like it could be pretty useful.

Sure, socketpairs on Linux.

For something like this I would love to see a formal spec to go along with the examples.

I do appreciate that they lead with the examples. They convey 90% of the important information. TBH, having worked with yaml just enough to get by with k8s deployments, I could immediately spot how this would be an improvement.

Yeah, I don't disagree. I'd go further and say the examples are on-point for a "human oriented" language. But the formal spec reveals how simple or complicated this language is. (And I'm also writing this from the perspective of someone who uses a programming language that does not have a HOML implementation).