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Author: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2022 11:18:19 +0100
Status update, February 2022
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+title: Status update, February 2022
+date: 2022-02-15
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+---
+
+Hello once again! Another month of free software development goes by with lots
+of progress in all respects.
+
+I will open with some news about [godocs.io]: version 1.0 of [our fork of gddo]
+has been released! Big thanks to Adnan Maolood for his work on this. I'm very
+pleased that, following our fork, we were not only able to provide continuity
+for godoc.org, but also to simplify, refactor, and improve the underlying
+software considerably. Check out [Adnan's blog post] for more details.
+
+[godocs.io]: https://godocs.io
+[our fork of gddo]: https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/godocs.io
+[Adnan's blog post]: https://adnano.co/2022/02/10/godocs.io-one-year-later/
+
+In programming language news, we have had substantial progress in many respects.
+One interesting project I've started is a Redis protocol implementation:
+
+```hare
+const conn = redis::connect()!;
+defer redis::close(&conn);
+
+fmt::println("=> SET foo bar EX 10")!;
+redis::set(&conn, "foo", "bar", 10: redis::ex)!;
+```
+
+Another contributor has been working on expanding our graphics support,
+including developing a backend for [glad] to generate OpenGL bindings, and a
+linear algebra library ala [glm] for stuff like vector and matrix manipulation.
+Other new modules include a [MIME database] and encoding::base32. Cryptography
+progress continued with the introduction of XTS mode for AES, which is useful
+for full disk encryption implementations, but has slowed while we develop bigint
+support for future algorithms like RSA. I have also been rewriting the language
+introduction tutorial with a greater emphasis on practical usage.
+
+[glad]: https://github.com/Dav1dde/glad
+[glm]: https://glm.g-truc.net/
+[mime database]: https://drewdevault.com/2022/01/28/Implementing-mime-in-xxxx.html
+
+Before we move on from the language project: I need your help! I am looking for
+someone to help develop terminal support. This is fairly straightforward, though
+laborsome: it involves developing libraries in our language which provide the
+equivalents of something like ncurses (or, better, [libtickit]), as well as the
+other end like [libvterm] offers. Please [email me] if you want to help.
+
+[libtickit]: http://www.leonerd.org.uk/code/libtickit/
+[libvterm]: http://www.leonerd.org.uk/code/libvterm/
+[email me]: mailto:sir@cmpwn.com
+
+In SourceHut news, we have [hired] our third full-time engineer: Conrad
+Hoffmann! Check out the blog post for details. The first major effort from
+Adnan's NLnet-sponsored SourceHut work also landed yesterday, introducing
+GraphQL-native webhooks to git.sr.ht alongside a slew of other improvements.
+pages.sr.ht also saw some improvements that allow users to configure their
+site's behavior more closely. Check out the "What's cooking" post later today
+for all of the SourceHut news.
+
+[hired]: https://sourcehut.org/blog/2022-02-02-welcome-conrad/
+
+That's all for today, thanks for reading!
