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A developer recounts using LLMs to solve a decade-old bug in a Swift/C++ cross-platform music app, demonstrating how AI can assist in debugging complex issues.

Analyzes the undefined behavior of the C/C++ expression 'a = a++ + ++a;' for int a=5, demonstrating three possible results (11, 12, 13) due to compiler-dependent evaluation order and post-increment handling, with theoretical and experimental breakdown.

CRow is a new open-source build system and dependency manager for C/C++ that mimics the simplicity of Rust's Cargo.

planb-lpm is a portable, MIT-licensed C++17 library implementing efficient IPv6 longest-prefix-match (LPM) using a linearized B+-tree with AVX-512 SIMD, featuring dynamic FIB support, Python bindings, and comprehensive benchmarking against real BGP data.

A developer recounts tracking down a 34-year-old NULL-pointer bug in the EtherSlip DOS packet driver using Open Watcom’s heap-corruption sentinel.

NearlyFreeSpeech.NET rewrote their production C++ frontend infrastructure (nfsncore) in Rust, a critical system that handles routing, caching, and access control for all incoming requests. The migration was motivated by Rust's safety guarantees, performance, ecosystem strength, and the aging C++ codebase's limitations.