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Making Python faster with Rust
Update: I gave a talk on this topic at P99 CONF 2023 and at PyCon IL 2024 (Hebrew). A while ago at $work, we had a performance issue with one of our core Python …
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Gitlet.js – Git implemented in 1k lines of JavaScript (2015)
I wrote Gitlet to show how Git works under the covers. I wrote it to be readable. I commented the code heavily.
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AdaCore and Ferrous Systems Joining Forces to Support Rust
AdaCore is the leading provider of commercial software solutions for Ada, C and C++ — helping developers build safe and secure software that matters.
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Next steps toward Go 2
What Go 2 language changes should we include in Go 1.14?
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Forth: The programming language that writes itself
An exploration of the evolution and meaning of the Forth programming language and its context in history.
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Helix: Rust and Ruby, Without the Glue
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…
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Zig Is Self-Hosted Now, What's Next?
Why self-host Zig?<br> For great justice, of course… and also a few more reasons actually.
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Python 3 Is Winning Library Developer Support
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?
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Using Rust at a startup: A cautionary tale
Rust is awesome, for certain things. But think twice before picking it up for a startup that needs to move fast.
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Why use Pascal?
Object Pascal is a modern, readable, fast, type-safe, cross-platform OOP programming language. It is also easy to pick up.
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Self-hosted x86 back end is now default in debug mode
This page contains entries for the year 2025 . Other years are available in the Devlog archive page .
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We need less powerful languages
We need languages and systems that are less powerful, not more powerful, and easy ways to create and use such languages.
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Elm 0.19 Broke Us
Elm 0.19 was released yesterday. There were a significant number of breaking changes at every level:...
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Cloudflare Workers now supports COBOL
COBOL is often a source of amusement for programmers because it is seen as old, verbose, clunky, and difficult to maintain. COBOL can now be used to write code for Cloudflare’s serverless platform Workers.
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A better introduction to Objective-C
Khám phá những chuyển động mới nhất của thể thao thế giới với tin tức, sự kiện, giải đấu, màn trình diễn ấn tượng và câu chuyện nổi bật từ nhiều bộ môn hấp dẫn.
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Crafting Interpreters
We’ll spend the rest of this book illuminating every dark and sundry corner of the Lox language, but it seems cruel to have you immediately start grinding out code for the interpreter without at least a glimpse of what we’re going to end up with.
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The Little C Function From Hell
Does the standard say whether or not “char” is “unsigned char” or “signed char”? (I guess not from what you wrote above.)
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I can’t believe that I can prove that it can sort
When an enthusiastic Ada programmer and a SPARK expert pair up to prove the most "stupid" sorting algorithm, lessons are learned! Join us in this…
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P: A programming language for asynchrony, fault-tolerance and uncertainty
To address the challenges of asynchronous computation, we have developed the P programming language for modeling and specifying protocols.
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Escaping Hell with Monads (2017)
As programmers we occasionally find ourselves in “Programmer’s Hell”, where our regular abstractions fail to satisfactory solve certain recurrent problems.
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An opinionated guide to Haskell
For me, this month marks the end of an era in my life: as of February 2018, I am no longer employed writing Haskell. It’s been a fascinating two years, and while I am excitedly looking forward to what I’ll be doing next, it’s likely I will continue to write Haskell in my spare time. I’ll probably even write it again…
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Rust fact vs. fiction: 5 Insights from Google's Rust journey in 2022
Wondering about Rust? We're addressing rumors and providing insight gained from years of early adoption of Rust here at Google.