http://localhost:1313/ Recent content in home on lowest case Hugo en-US Sat, 01 Jun 2024 18:59:08 -0300 http://localhost:1313/about/ Sat, 01 Jun 2024 18:59:08 -0300 http://localhost:1313/about/ i’m leonardo santiago, a software engineer based in brazil. my interests are in compiler design, programming tools (emacs), functional programming, and proof languages. i’m most confortable in nix and rust, but i know a fair share of other languages. currently, i work as a software engineer @ Mixrank, and you can find my curriculum here. if you feel like smugly responding to any of my posts (or just want to kindly send me a message), these are my socials: http://localhost:1313/blog/rust-is-not-about-memory-safety/ Sat, 01 Jun 2024 18:59:08 -0300 http://localhost:1313/blog/rust-is-not-about-memory-safety/ most of rust discussions nowadays revolve about memory safety, and how it is safer than C / C++ / zig / go / whatever language is being trashed on twitter that day. while yes, that is true - not that the bar for most of these is particularly high - what I think is the main point of the language is always glossed over: correctness. when one tries to criticize any of the aforementioned languages, one is answered with the following argument: