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Where Tcl and Tk Went Wrong (2010)
I’ve been pondering this subject for a while, and I think I’m finally ready to write about it. Tcl was, for many years, my go-to language of choice. It’s still near and dear to me…
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 1,045 posts.
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The Monad Challenges: Jump start your understanding of monads
There are still some rough edges here, and also a fair amount of content to be added. But if we waited until everything was polished before publishing, it would probably never happen. So feel free to make comments, suggestions, or contribute new content. As always, pull requests are the most desirable.
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Python is now Python 3
A major Python update has just been moved from the testing repositories and will be available on a mirror near you. The default "python" package is now for the 3.x series while the 2.x series has been moved to a "python2" package, with python-2.7 having been scheduled to be the last major release in the python-2.x…
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Bicameral, Not Homoiconic
Parenthetically Speaking: Articles by Shriram Krishnamurthi
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Query-Based Compiler Architectures
What a query-based compiler is and what they are good for.
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A Tour of Safe Tracing GC Designs in Rust
I’ve been thinking about garbage collection in Rust for a long time, ever since I started working on Servo’s JS layer. I’ve designed a GC library, …
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Unsafe Zig Is Safer Than Unsafe Rust
This pattern is pretty common if you are interacting with Operating System APIs . Another example .
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Amazing feats of Clang Error Recovery
In addition to parsing and generating machine code for your source files when valid, a compiler frontend's job is also to detect invalid code and give you a hint that explains what is wrong so you can fix the problem.
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Rust in Production (2018)
How Mozilla’s new language dramatically improved our server-side performance
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Golang at CloudFlare
The other day I blogged here about our new Railgun software that speeds up the back haul between CloudFlare data centers and our clients' servers. At CloudFlare we're using a number of different languages depending on the task.
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The Future of Programming – Interview with Richard Eisenberg
Listen in on Jane Street’s Ron Minsky as he has conversations with engineers working on everything from clock synchronization to reliable multicast, build systems to reconfigurable hardware. Get a peek at how Jane Street approaches problems, and how those ideas relate to tech more broadly.
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Uninitialized memory: Unsafe Rust is too hard
Why unsafe Rust is a complex and user unfriendly experience.
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PHP 5.5.5 Released
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
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Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang
In the two years since I’ve posted I want off Mr Golang’s Wild Ride, it’s made the rounds time and time again, on Reddit, on Lobste.rs, on HackerNews, and elsewhere. And every time, it elicits the ...
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My personal C coding style as of late 2023
This has been a ground-breaking year for my C skills, and paradigm shifts in my technique has provoked me to reconsider my habits and coding style. It’s been my largest personal style change in years, so I’ve decided to take a snapshot of its current state and my reasoning. These changes have produced significant…
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Building Fast Interpreters in Rust
In the previous post we described the Firewall Rules architecture and how the different components are integrated together. We created a configurable Rust library for writing and executing Wireshark®-like filters in different parts of our stack written in Go, Lua, C, C++ and JavaScript Workers.
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Why AWS loves Rust, and how we’d like to help
One of the most exciting things about the Rust programming language is that it makes infrastructure incredibly boring. That’s not a bad thing, in this case. No one wants their electrical wiring to be exciting; most of us prefer the safety that comes with being able to flip a switch and have light to see […]
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Ending PHP Support, and the Future of Hack
Ending Support for PHP
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Why Python 3 Exists
This month I invited to Q&A at PuPPy [https://youtu.be/2XviXtxWKO8?list=PL4S0lvhXvdhIV2C28Ia_DeIeloBrsQBOW] (the Puget Sound Python users group) that eventually led to me explaining why Python 3 came into existence and the whole string/bytes deal. I ended up receiving a compliment on the explanation which
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Backward Compatibility, Go 1.21, and Go 2
Go 1.21 expands Go's commitment to backward compatibility, so that every new Go toolchain is the best possible implementation of older toolchain semantics as well.
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I don't understand Python's Asyncio
A little confession that I have no idea how asyncio works in Python 3.