Implementing cat with Kotlin Native

Introduction Hello! 👋 In this article we’ll implement the cat command utility which is used in many Unix like systems like Linux and macOS. To implement it, we’ll use kotlin and to drop the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). We’ll build a binary directly with Kotlin Native. In the end, we’ll get an executable that we can simply run on our Linux or macOS box. What is cat? The catutility which has purpose of concatenating files....

December 24, 2023 Â· 5 min Â· Denis Nutiu

Exploring SIMD instructions in Rust

Hello 👋, I started exploring Rust a week ago due to more and more web services being written in Rust at my work place and so far I like the language, it’s simple, fast and beautiful. My day to day programming tasks are in Python, Go and Java. I’ve also used C# for some personal projects. Picking up Rust is not that easy for me since everything I write is web services or Java programs that don’t have “low-level” logic....

March 25, 2023 Â· 15 min Â· Denis NuČ›iu