2026-01-11

Weekly open source: algoc — write the algorithm once

Week of January 5–11. Thin week for commits (37 total), one meaningful launch.

algoc

algoc — 26 commits on the repo's first full week. The goal is simple to state: make some algorithms available cross-platform. Write the algorithm once in a DSL, get implementations in multiple target languages. It's still early — this is the kind of project that takes time, because the DSL, the type system, and the target-language back-ends all have to grow together before any of it is trustworthy. Worth watching, not worth depending on yet.

Also this week

  • squashfs — 4 commits on the pure-Go read/write implementation.
  • goro — 3 incremental commits on the PHP-in-Go runtime.
  • Minor work on swiftrest, qemuctl, and pobj.