[July 2026 edition]

Rust Is Not a Silver Bullet — Language Parsers Belong in Nim or Roc

Published: Jul 3, 2026

The myth that 'Rust can do anything' collapses the moment you try to scale a recursive AST. For SQL parsers — massive tagged unions, deep recursion — Rust's type system breaks down in both compile time and maintainability. A 3-language benchmark porting the same parser to Nim and Roc shows exactly why Rust is structurally the wrong tool, with runnable code.

[July 2026 edition]

Getting Started with Roc: A Pure Functional Language Meant to Ride Alongside Rust

Published: Jul 3, 2026

A technical look at Roc — Richard Feldman's pure functional language. Covering the alpha4-rolling status, Perceus reference counting, the Platform/Host model, and the Zig compiler rewrite, informed by AlopexDB's SQL parser trial.

[July 2026 edition]

Getting Started with Nim: A Multi-Paradigm Language That Transpiles to C

Published: Jul 3, 2026

A technical overview of Nim in 2026 — the stable 2.2 series, the upcoming 3.0 (Nimony) compiler rewrite, ORC memory management, C ABI interop, and its real-world performance as an SQL parser candidate for AlopexDB.