Josh Weinstein

Editor at TheScore

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Articles

How to Master Rust References in just 10 Minutes

Aug 12, 2024 | jweinst1.medium.com | Josh Weinstein

In recent years, Rust has quickly became one of the most popular and fastest growing programming languages. It’s being used and invested in by major blue chip technology companies like Google and Microsoft. It’s a language that allows manual memory management with special constraints, which for the most part, ensure memory safety. However, the constraints Rust uses, often called the borrow checker, can be incredibly difficult to learn. Well, that is, if you don’t learn it correctly.
The worst data structure in existence, and why you should never use it

Jul 21, 2024 | jweinst1.medium.com | Josh Weinstein

Out of all the possible data structures developers can choose to use in their line of work, there is one that absolutely must be avoided. The sheer amount of memory and disk space it can require is simply ridiculous. It doesn't offer hardly any advantages over commonly used data structures like B+ trees or hash maps. And it will definitely bloat or slow down your application. That data structure is a trie.
Why Memory mapped files aren't as good as you think they are

Jul 16, 2024 | jweinst1.medium.com | Josh Weinstein

You are either a developer or a manager working on a project involving file based I/O. You are in need of a solution that syncs in memory structures or formats to disk, so you do not need to worry about it. You come across a function called , and think you have found exactly what you need. Well, not so fast. Yes, memory mapping files is a great solution for a select number of use cases. But certainly not all use cases. Let's recall I/O has two parts: I : The "in" operations.
An Introduction to Atomics in Rust

May 27, 2024 | jweinst1.medium.com | Josh Weinstein

Rust is a versatile, robust programming language that provides excellent features for multi-threaded programming. A vital part of mutli-threading is the utilization of atomic instructions. Note: This post focuses on how atomics can be used in the context of Rust's guarantees of memory model and safety features. This is not intended to be a conceptual lesson in how atomic instructions work at the hardware level.
Every Episode of The Simpsons Season 4, Ranked

Apr 23, 2024 | cbr.com | Jeff Lynch |Bill Oakley |Josh Weinstein |Mark Kirkland

The Simpsons Season 4 is widely regarded as the best of the series. But how do its episodes rank with one another?
Building a Key-Value Store with non-blocking I/O in 60 lines of Rust code

Nov 2, 2023 | jweinst1.medium.com | Josh Weinstein

In 2016, I just finished my classes for the day and was sitting at Caffe Strada in Berkeley. I read an email about a new programming language called "rust". Intrigued, I downloaded the build system and started trying to learn the language. However, I quickly grew frustrated at the strict rules of the language and what is known as the borrow-checker in Rust. At the time, with only experience programming in Python, the concepts of move by default, lifetimes, and mutability, simply bewildered me.
The incredible power of using static assert in C++

Oct 24, 2023 | jweinst1.medium.com | Josh Weinstein

In most programming languages, an assert is often utilized to catch unexpected or unintended states and situations of a program. However, an assert is also a runtime conditional check. This means that a programmer will need to run and execute that particular piece of code for the assert to take effect. Some languages, such as C++, have the capability to turn off asserts depending on the type of program build.
WRITING TODAY - The US Writers' Strike

Jul 31, 2023 | bbc.co.uk | Josh Weinstein

In our WRITING TODAY series of blog posts we throw open the doors of the BBC Writersroom blog and ask writers to tell us about the issues which are affecting the industry from their perspective. In the latest WRITING TODAY blog post Josh Weinstein, who has worked in both the US and UK systems on shows including The Simpsons, Futurama, Strange Hill High and Danger Mouse, explains the background to the current Writers' Guild of America writers' strike, from his perspective.
ChatGPT failed to do three things every programmer knows how to do

May 7, 2023 | jweinst1.medium.com | Josh Weinstein
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Apr 18, 2023 | filmaster.com | Josh Weinstein