C, C++, Rust, Go & Systems Languages Videos Hacker News Recommends — Page 2

talk#1425

CppCon 2015: Sean Parent "Better Code: Data Structures"

CppCon

“this one really made me aware of what just might be the best way to think about it.”

3 HN recommenders · 2016–2021

talk#1452

CppCon 2016: Chandler Carruth “Garbage In, Garbage Out: Arguing about Undefined Behavior..."

CppCon

“Chandler Carruth's talk on the subject was really useful for my own understanding of the reasoning behind UB”

4 HN recommenders · 2016–2026

talk#1457

"A (Not So Gentle) Introduction To Systems Programming In ATS" by Aditya Siram

Strange Loop Conference

“I recommend watching this presentation for a good idea of what ATS programming is like”

4 HN recommenders · 2017–2022

talk#1476

CppCon 2017: Chandler Carruth “Going Nowhere Faster”

CppCon

“The best presentation I've seen about CPU performance related to pipelining, branch prediction, and speculative execution”

2 HN recommenders · 2017–2026

talk#1500

Stephan T. Lavavej “Floating-Point ＜charconv＞: Making Your Code 10x Faster With C++17's Final Boss”

CppCon

“Stephan T Lavavej also had a surprisingly fun and approachable talk on that problem”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2022

talk#1563

CppCon 2016: Dan Saks “extern c: Talking to C Programmers about C++”

CppCon

“The mentioned cppcon presentation by Dan Saks is awesome. Highly recommend watching even if you are not interested in C or C++”

2 HN recommenders · 2017–2025

tutorial#1566

The Why, What, and How of Pinning in Rust

Jon Gjengset

“Jon Gjengset's stream on pin/unpin is invaluable for understanding Pin semantics”

3 HN recommenders · 2021–2026

tutorial#1571

Handmade Hero Day 001 - Setting Up the Windows Build

Molly Rocket

“the amount of knowledge and experience on-show was incredible”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2021

talk#1677

code::dive conference 2014 - Scott Meyers: Cpu Caches and Why You Care

NOKIA Technology Center Wrocław

“Scott Meyers had a very good talk which contained this information”

3 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

talk#1687

CppCon 2017: Fedor Pikus “C++ atomics, from basic to advanced. What do they really do?”

CppCon

“Watching this was enlightening to say the least (and the presenter is very good)”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2025

talk#1698

Servo Architecture: Safety and Performance

linux conf au 2017 - Hobart, Australia

“This video is one of the most exciting I have seen with regards to web browser performance, and it's Mozilla”

3 HN recommenders · 2017

talk#1748

Charlie Marsh: uv: An Extremely Fast Python Package Manager

Jane Street

“I recently watched a talk by the author of uv that was surprisingly fascinating”

3 HN recommenders · 2024–2025

talk#1792

C++Now 2018: Matt Godbolt “What Else Has My Compiler Done For Me Lately?”

CppNow

“Both are great presentations going into details on some of the crazy optimizations compilers will do.”

3 HN recommenders · 2018–2020

talk#1796

CppCon 2015: Chandler Carruth "Tuning C++: Benchmarks, and CPUs, and Compilers! Oh My!"

CppCon

“Optimizing the Emergent Structures of C++”

3 HN recommenders · 2015–2020

talk#1811

C++ Seasoning

aghuttun

“This one in particular is very enlightening”

3 HN recommenders · 2018–2022

talk#1876

Modeling Data Concurrency w/ Asynchronous I/O in Zig - RedisConf 2020

Redis

“I highly recommend watching Andrew Kelley's video”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2021

talk#1897

CppCon 2015: Bjarne Stroustrup “Writing Good C++14”

CppCon

“If you want to start with modern c++ watch this”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2018

talk#1908

Origins of Go Concurrency style by Rob Pike

jasonofthel33t

“Check out this video by Pike”

3 HN recommenders · 2013–2025

talk#1913

CppCon 2017: Herb Sutter “Meta: Thoughts on generative C++”

CppCon

“Herb Sutter's talk about it is by far the best talk I've seen from from CppCon17.”

2 HN recommenders · 2017–2020

commentary#1917

Rant: Entity systems and the Rust borrow checker ... or something.

Jonathan Blow

“A more detailed description of his opinions are laid out here where he goes into much more detail”

3 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

talk#1924

OSCON 2010: Rob Pike, "Public Static Void"

O'Reilly

“gave this short speech at OSCON 2010 about what's wrong with programming languages, their thinking, and their recent direction”

3 HN recommenders · 2012–2023

talk#2024

GopherCon 2016: The Design of the Go Assembler - Rob Pike

Gopher Academy

“Its Rob Pike talking about the go assembler and he answers a few of your questions.”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2025

talk#2030

C++ and Beyond 2012: Herb Sutter - atomic Weapons 2 of 2

alexsmail

“For a more in depth introduction to the topic with a lot of practical code examples, I highly recommend”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2024

talk#2039

"Liberating the Smalltalk lurking in C and Unix" by Stephen Kell

Strange Loop Conference

“there's a great video of one of his talks”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2023

tutorial#2050

I wrote a Raytracer for DOS, 16 VGA colors

Bisqwit

“Bisqwit's discussion of dithering is outstanding”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2021

talk#2080

Modern C and What We Can Learn From It - Luca Sas [ ACCU 2021 ]

ACCU Conference

“This video gives a good overview of some modern patterns in C”

3 HN recommenders · 2021–2022

talk#2091

RustConf 2016 - A Modern Editor Built in Rust by Raph Levien

Confreaks

“So far I've found and enjoyed reading/watching the resources below”

4 HN recommenders · 2016–2018

demo#2142

Let's port Diablo to SerenityOS!

Andreas Kling

“the video on porting Diablo to SerenityOS in an hour is pretty interesting to watch”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2022

talk#2143

"Swift as C++ Successor in FoundationDB" by Konrad Malawski (Strange Loop 2023)

Strange Loop Conference

“The fairly recent presentation about starting to move FoundationDB to Swift[0] was also very interesting.”

3 HN recommenders · 2023–2025

talk#2168

CppCon 2015: Timur Doumler “C++ in the Audio Industry”

CppCon

“he goes through real time strategies to keep the response time under around 30ms IIRC”

3 HN recommenders · 2016–2026

talk#2170

"Compacting the Uncompactable" by Bobby Powers

Strange Loop Conference

“There was a great talk at Strange Loop about a drop-in malloc replacement which compacts.”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

talk#2231

Introducing a Memory-Safe Successor Language in Large C++ Code Bases - John McCall - CppNow 2023

CppNow

“Finaly a recent gem from CppNow 2023”

3 HN recommenders · 2023–2025

talk#2272

"NTFS really isn't that bad" - Robert Collins (LCA 2020)

linux.conf.au

“This is a great talk on the topic”

5 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

tutorial#2275

Crust of Rust: Lifetime Annotations

Jon Gjengset

“each one is actually writing carefully chosen code that runs and talking through what's going on”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

talk#2308

What's a Memory Allocator Anyway? - Benjamin Feng

Zig SHOWTIME

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2021

talk#2339

CppCon 2018: Stoyan Nikolov “OOP Is Dead, Long Live Data-oriented Design”

CppCon

“a more recent video on it from CppCon 2018 where the presenter goes over a specific worked example.”

3 HN recommenders · 2018–2021

talk#2374

Data Oriented GUI in Rust by Raph Levien - Bay Area Rust Meetup

Rust Programming Language

“I found this excellent talk to be complementary to my talk[1] on data-oriented GUI in Rust”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2020

talk#2428

Gopherfest 2017 | Upspin with Rob Pike

The Go Programming Language

“It's a fascinating talk. I really enjoyed it.”

2 HN recommenders · 2017–2025

talk#2507

RustConf 2020 - Closing Keynote by Siân Griffin

Rust Programming Language

“I really enjoyed the RustConf 2020 Closing Keynote”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2022

talk#2512

2023 LLVM Dev Mtg - Mojo 🔥: A system programming language for heterogenous computing

LLVM

“this video totally changed my view”

2 HN recommenders · 2023–2026

talk#2540

CppCon 2014: Jeff Preshing "How Ubisoft Develops Games for Multicore - Before and After C++11"

CppCon

“Jeff Preshing gave a really good introduction to atomics at CppCon 2014.[1]”

2 HN recommenders · 2015–2021

talk#2649

Makepad: Designing modern UIs with Rust - Rik Arends - RustNL 2023

RustNL

“Greg Johnston, creator of Leptos, has made a video with performance comparisons”

2 HN recommenders · 2023–2024

talk#2703

Dmitry Vyukov — Go scheduler: Implementing language with lightweight concurrency

Hydra

“This one notably also explains the design considerations for golangs M:N:P in comparison to other schemes”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

talk#2763

CppCon 2014: Zaika Antoun "Microsoft w/ C++ to Deliver Office Across Different Platforms, Part I"

CppCon

“There's a pretty interesting video of how the Office team uses C++ for their cross-platform efforts”

2 HN recommenders · 2015–2019

talk#2775

The Truth about Rust/WebAssembly Performance

Greg Johnston

“did a pretty good video about this a few weeks ago[0]”

2 HN recommenders · 2023–2026

talk#2786

A Possible Future of Software Development

Google TechTalks

“Watch this Sean Parent video”

2 HN recommenders · 2012–2019

talk#2834

BlueHat IL 2023 - David Weston - Default Security

Microsoft Israel R&D Center

“The speaker covers a bunch of areas and the final part of the talk (around 10 minutes) is about Microsoft introducing Rust in some self-contained areas in Windows.”

3 HN recommenders · 2023–2025

talk#2895

RustConf 2017 - Closing Keynote: Safe Systems Software and the Future of Computing by Joe Duffy

Confreaks

“I summarized this excellent talk here [1], but one of the main points is that compatibility with existing systems is important for adoption.”

2 HN recommenders · 2017–2025