Laurent Le Brun

I've started publishing tech articles on this blog in January 2024:

Developer tools at Google

I have worked twelve years on developer tools at Google, most of the time as tech lead. Related blog posts:

• Evolving a codebase at Google Scale
• The Story of Reformatting 100k Files at Google in 2012

Starlark

I am responsible for the Starlark language; I was the first engineer designing and implementing the language, and I became tech lead for the language. I am also the author of the website starlark-lang.org. Related blog posts:

• A practical introduction to the Starlark language
• An Overview of the Starlark language

LingoStories

An experiment at building a community and a free language learning tool. See lingostories.org. Related blog posts:

• My Adventures with Narrative Engines
• Building LingoStories: An Experimental Project for Language Learners

Demoscene

The following articles provide in-depth technical explanations about my work in the demoscene - realtime computer animations that fit in less than 64kB. They are published on ctrl-alt-test.fr:

• 15 Years of Shader Minification (2025)
• How we made an animated movie in 8kB (2024)
• Procedural 3D mesh generation in a 64kB intro (2023)
• A dive into the making of Immersion (2018)
• Texturing in a 64kB intro (2018)
• Behind Incubation, making of a demo in 64kB (2010)