Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 36 posts.
Clojure is a dynamic language. Among other things this means that type annotations are not required for code to run. While Clojure has some support for type hints, they are not an enforcement mechanism, nor comprehensive, and are limited to communicating information to the compiler to aid in efficient code generation…
The spec library ( API docs ) specifies the structure of data, validates or conforms it, and can generate data based on the spec.
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Announcing the Go font family, by Bigelow & Holmes.
Improve the start-up time of both small and large Java applications, with at most a limited impact on peak performance.
Slack uses PHP for most of its server-side application logic, which is an unusual choice these days. Why did we choose to build a new project in this language? Should you? Most programmers who have only casually used PHP know two things about it: that it is a bad language, which they would never use if…
This PEP specifies how Python software packages should specify what build dependencies they have in order to execute their chosen build system. As part of this specification, a new configuration file is introduced for software packages to use to specify...
Why your JavaScript events are coming in quicker now.
Jonan: Welcome everyone. Today we are doing an interview to talk about new features coming in Ruby 3. I am here with my coworker, Sasada Koichi san....
Enhance the Java Language to extend type inference to declarations of local variables with initializers.
TL;DR: Starting with Firefox 48, Mozilla is shipping its first production Rust code, with more to come! Mozilla ❤ Rust It's hard to believe it's been almost seven years since ...
Questions? Check out the .NET Standard FAQ. You can find the latest version of the compatibility matrix here. In my last post, I talked about how we want to make porting to .NET Core easier. In this post, I’ll focus on how we’re making this plan a reality with .NET Standard. We’ll cover which APIs we […]
Today I am thrilled to announce the official release of Vue.js 2.0: Ghost in the Shell. After 8 alphas, 8 betas and 8 rcs (a total…
Posted by Mike Schuster (Google Brain Team), Melvin Johnson (Google Translate) and Nikhil Thorat (Google Brain Team)In the last 10 years, Google Tr...
"Python 2.x versus Python 3.x": this is by now an old question. In the eyes of some people Python 2 is here to stay, and in the eyes of oth...
GenStage is a new Elixir behaviour for exchanging events with back-pressure between Elixir processes. In this blog post we will cover the background that led us to GenStage, some example use cases, and what we are exploring for future releases.
Historically, LLVM's major releases always added "0.1" to the version number, producing major versions like 3.8, 3.9, and 4.0 (expected by March 2017). With our next release though, we're changing this.
Today’s customers live in a multi-platform, multi-cloud, multi-OS world – that’s just reality. This world brings new challenges and customers need tools to make everything work together.
Over the last few years, static type checkers have become available for popular dynamic languages like PHP (Hack) and JavaScript (Flow and TypeScript), and have seen wide adoption. Two years ago, a provisional syntax for static type annotations was added to Python 3. However, static types in Python …
Rust + Ruby, Without The Glue. This post is a write-up of the talk I gave at RailsConf 2016. You can find the slides [https://speakerdeck.com/chancancode/turbo-rails-with-rust] here. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There's a lot to love about Ruby – the sweet syntax…
https://notebooks.azure.com/library/rJUgQ81mnpo In 3 months, Python 3 will be better supported than Python 2. Are you using Python 3 for your development?
OCaml 4.03 is branched and a first release candidate is imminent, so it seems like a good time to take stock of what’s coming.
