The Project — Table Of Contents

Ryan Fleury
Jul 05, 2023

The Vision

The Hidden Grove Project

Ryan Fleury
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June 7, 2023
The Hidden Grove Project

The modern age is ironic to the point of being disorienting. In some ways, humanity feels far ahead, as if it has progressed more than ever. In other ways, the reverse seems obvious: that we’re as primal, tribal, naïve, and degenerate as ever. In one moment, the world today is the pinnacle of cultural, social, moral, and technological progress. In the n…

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Intro To The Codebase

Intro To The Codebase, Part I: Windows Dev Environment Setup

Ryan Fleury
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July 5, 2023
Intro To The Codebase, Part I: Windows Dev Environment Setup

Watch now (42 min) | In this video, I walk through six steps to follow in setting up a Windows development environment for the purposes of using the Hidden Grove codebase, available to paid subscribers in the Code Depot. This will be useful mostly for those who’ve not done C programming on Windows, who are new to programming in general, or who use a significantly different development environment to mine, and would like a walkthrough of how I set my development environments up.

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Intro To The Codebase, Part II: Getting Around

Ryan Fleury
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July 7, 2023
Intro To The Codebase, Part II: Getting Around

Watch now (57 min) | In this video, I walk through an overview of the top-level organizational structure of the Hidden Grove codebase, naming conventions that signal information about some code’s relationship to the top-level structure, and some rules-of-thumb that I follow when writing code, which may be useful when navigating and reading the codebase.

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Intro To The Codebase, Part III: Using Base Math

Ryan Fleury
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July 7, 2023
Intro To The Codebase, Part III: Using Base Math

Watch now (18 min) | In this video, I cover the portion of the base layer prepared for math operations. C doesn’t have language features like operator and function overloading. These features are often used for math libraries in other languages, and the C naming convention is left as an afterthought. The Hidden Grove codebase contains a fairly succinct, memorable, and expressive naming scheme, so that while the code does need to be more verbose without operator overloading, it can still be relatively straightforward to write, succinct, and easier to read.

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Intro To The Codebase, Part IV: Memory Management

Ryan Fleury
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July 16, 2023
Intro To The Codebase, Part IV: Memory Management

Watch now (33 min) | In this video, I walk through the codebase’s strategy for memory management, which is built around an idea I’ve written about previously: arenas. The codebase’s base layer includes an arena implementation, allowing all code a much simpler style of manual memory management than the standard approaches often taught.

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Intro To The Codebase, Part V: Strings

Ryan Fleury
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December 31, 2023
Intro To The Codebase, Part V: Strings

In this video, I walk through the string processing portion of the Hidden Grove codebase base layer. This string code is built around the same arena-centric memory management ideas as the rest of the codebase—it also dispenses with some frustrating legacy string design decisions (null termination and “object oriented” string objects), preferring immutable, explicit-length-delimited “string views”.

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Programming In The Codebase

From-Scratch Data Structures In The Codebase

Ryan Fleury
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Jan 1
From-Scratch Data Structures In The Codebase

In this video, I walk through some techniques and helper code within the Hidden Grove codebase for building various common data structures, including: arrays, singly-linked stacks, singly-linked queues, doubly-linked lists, chunked linked lists, n-ary trees, hash tables, and simultaneous combinations of them. All memory management for the data structures is arena-based.

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