Ben Hoyt benhoyt

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Software engineer at Canonical. Author of GoAWK, inih, and Python's os.scandir(). Technical writer.

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I'm Ben Hoyt, an experienced software developer from Christchurch, New Zealand. I'm also a unicyclist and love spoonerisms (ask me about Prinderella and the Cince).

I love writing readable Go and Python code, and I'm currently working on GoAWK, my AWK interpreter with CSV support (written in Go). I also do a fair bit of technical writing over on my website.

I dabble in other open source projects, with small submissions to the Go programming language, and a minor but heavily-used addition to Python a number of years ago -- the os.scandir() function, which sped up os.walk() by 2-10x.

If you use my projects or enjoy my writing, I'd love for you to sponsor me to help my personal projects stay well-maintained and to keep me motivated! Even a coffee's worth is a nice perk. Thanks! :-)

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goawk goawk Public

A POSIX-compliant AWK interpreter written in Go, with CSV support

Go 2.1k 104
inih inih Public

Simple .INI file parser in C, good for embedded systems

C++ 3.1k 579
protothreads-cpp protothreads-cpp Public

Protothread.h, a C++ port of Adam Dunkels' protothreads library

C++ 211 43
mugo mugo Public

Mugo, a toy compiler for a subset of Go that can compile itself

HTML 129 6
scandir scandir Public archive

Better directory iterator and faster os.walk(). Archived, as this has been in the stdlib since Python 3.5.

Python 538 68
countwords countwords Public archive

Playing with counting word frequencies (and performance) in various languages.

Rust 307 93

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