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I am Sebastian Schöner, and you are most likely here because you enjoy programming as well.

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  • Better codegen for Unity games on Mono

    Posted on March 31, 2026

    tl;dr: I am tinkering with improved codegen for Mono to get better performance in the Unity Editor and in Unity games that ship with Mono as their runtime. Not done yet, but please do get in touch if your studio is interested in this (mail@s-schoener.com). [Read More]

  • I miss header files

    Posted on March 27, 2026

    I am currently on a side quest to write some Zig code, or more specifically: take some C++ code that is written in a I-can’t-believe-it’s-not-C style and turn it into Zig. [Read More]

  • It has never been about the typing

    Posted on March 18, 2026

    My friend Stefan Reinalter is asking: I find this extremely worrying, with many of people I respect saying things like “I no longer write code” or “let LLMs do it”. Why did you start programming? Was it never the journey for you, but only the goal? I genuinely want to... [Read More]

  • Learnings from creating a GUI library

    Posted on February 9, 2026

    I have spent a lot of time recently on creating a GUI library. I have simply not found a library that satisfies my specific list of (partially subjective) requirements: has a C interface, looks reasonably good by default and allows to create things that actually look good, compiles to WASM,... [Read More]

  • Putting slim locks on a diet

    Posted on January 28, 2026

    Let’s talk about reader-writer locks. Reader-writer locks are what you employ when you know that multiple readers can safely access a resource concurrently, but once there is a single writer that writer will need exclusive access to said resource. In my particular case, there is a C# program which is... [Read More]