zy.golo.id

Richard Smith, also known as zygoloid. I work on programming languages at Google.

I enjoy pencil puzzles, cryptic crosswords and video games, and live in the San Francisco Bay Area with two cats. I hold a degree in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge.

Work

  • Carbon — a successor language to C++; I’m one of the leads
  • C++ — papers, issues and editing for the standard
  • Clang — the LLVM C and C++ front end

Games

Liber Limacum — an arcade game The Vitrine — a co-op puzzle crawler System Update — an incremental game Shift Match — a match-3 puzzle

Puzzles

  • Sudoku — variant sudoku puzzles
  • Yin Yang — a tool for setting Yin Yang puzzles

Other

Elsewhere

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