Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 383 posts.
Shopify's involvement with TruffleRuby began half a year ago, with the goal of furthering the success of the project and Ruby community. TruffleRuby is an alternative implementation of the Ruby language (where the reference implementation is CRuby, or MRI) developed by Oracle Labs. TruffleRuby has high potential in…
A collection of examples of how to use Common Lisp
Pattern matching and exhaustive switches come together to enable functional style data models that blend seamlessly with Dart’s…
Crystal 0.31.0 has been released!
What we learned from the December 2017 Go User Survey.
Notable changes and additions to the Dart programming language.
Browsers Join Firefox as approved for running Epic Citadel Mozilla has been working hard to make asm.js as fast as possible in Firefox and progress has been really solid. Less ...
Five years ago, when I started writing the first lines of code of what would become later the Red/System compiler, I had a pretty good pictu...
Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust , optimal , and reusable software.
What we learned from the December 2017 Go User Survey.
This book gives a practical approach to understanding implementations of non-strict functional languages using lazy graph reduction. The book is intended to be a source of practical labwork material, to help make functional-language implementations `come alive’, by helping the reader to develop, modify and experiment…
In Praise of APL: A Language for Lyrical Programming Professor Alan J. Perlis Yale University
The Swift 5 release enables runtime checking of “Exclusive Access to Memory” by default in Release builds, further enhancing Swift’s capabilities as a safe language. In Swift 4, these runtime checks were only enabled in Debug builds. In this post, I’ll first explain what this change means for Swift developers before…
A while ago, I wanted to get a little quick feedback on some data I was playing with, but the day was almost over and I wasn’t done working on it yet. I decided to tweet my rough draft of a graph of GitHub language trends anyway, followed later by a slight improvement. Much to my surprise,
Extend the switch statement so that it can be used as either a statement or an expression, and that both forms can use either a "traditional" or "simplified" scoping and control flow behavior. These changes will simplify everyday coding, and also prepare the way for the use of pattern matching (JEP 305) in switch …
Diagnostics play a very important role in a programming language experience. It’s vital for developer productivity that the compiler can produce proper guidance in any situation, especially incomplete or invalid code.
Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust , optimal , and reusable software.
How StatHat uses Go, and why they chose it.
Improve startup and warmup time by making optimized native code for an application instantly available when the HotSpot Java Virtual Machine starts. Achieve this by compiling application code to native code in a training run, storing the native code in the AOT cache for use in subsequent production runs. If the…
