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API design is stuck in the past
The industry has embraced statically typed languages, but API design remains twenty years in the past. Schema driven development presents an opportunity to pull API design into the present.
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How we designed Dropbox’s ATF – an async task framework
I joined Dropbox not long after graduating with a Master’s degree in computer science. Aside from an internship, this was my first big-league engineering job. My team had already begun designing a critical internal service that most of our software would use: It would handle asynchronous computing requests behind the…
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Will R Work on Apple Silicon?
At WWDC 2020 earlier this year, Apple announced a transition from Intel to ARM-based processors in their laptops. This blog is about the prospects of when R will work on that platform, based on experimentation on a developer machine running A12Z, one of the “Apple silicon” processors.
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Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11M Concurrent Users (2019)
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
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Eleven Years of Go
Happy Birthday, Go!
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.NET 5.0
.NET 5.0 includes many enhancements, including single file applications, more capable JSON APIs, new versions of C
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Insights from Adopting TypeScript at Scale
Rob Palmer shares some of the insights & lessons learned during Bloomberg Engineering's journey to adopt TypeScript as a first-class supported language.
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How to GraphQL with Ruby, Rails, Active Record, and No N+1
An exhaustive hands-on guide for dealing with N+1 problem in database-backed Ruby or Rails applications that use Active Record and serve the GraphQL APIs
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Mutt 2.0 Release Notes
Note: this is a review of some of the more interesting features in this release. For a complete list of changes please be sure to read the UPDATING file.
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Why not use GraphQL?
Analyzing common misconceptions on the discussion around GraphQL vs. REST.
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PyMC: Theano Is Dead, Long Live Theano
© 2020, The PyMC Development Team
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CERN Online introductory lectures on quantum computing from 6 November
This content is currently in the process of being archived and integrated into the CERN Library collections.
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Why Dark didn't choose Rust
Welcome again HN! Dark [https://darklang.com] is a programming language, structured editor, and infrastructure—all in one—whose goal is to make it 100x easier to build backend services. Check out the website [https://darklang.com/], our What is Dark [https://blog.darklang.com/what-is-dark/] post, and
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A First Look at the JIT
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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Bevy 0.3: game engine built in Rust
A little over a month after releasing Bevy 0.2, and thanks to 59 contributors, 122 pull requests, and our generous sponsors, I'm happy to announce the…
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Programming R at native speed using Haskell (2015)
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Dark’s new backend will be in F#
Welcome HN! Dark is a programming language, structured editor, and infrastructure—all in one—whose goal is to make it 100x easier to build backend services. Check out the website, our What is Dark post, and How Dark deploys in 50ms for more. Thanks for checking us out! Part of
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Scipio: A Thread-per-Core Crate for Rust and Linux
Glommio (pronounced glom-io or |glomjəʊ|) is a cooperative thread-per-core crate for Rust & Linux based on io_uring. It allows you to write asynchronous code that takes advantage of rust async/await, but it doesn’t use helper threads anywhere.
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Leaving OCaml
Part of a 3 part series. Followups on F#, Rust I built the first demo of Dark in Python, in about two weeks. A few months later when I started productizing it, I rebuilt it in OCaml. Back in 2017, when I was considering the language and platform to use
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Netflix Android and iOS Studio Apps now powered by Kotlin Multiplatform
By David Henry & Mel Yahya
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Mendoza: Use stack machines to compute efficient JSON diffs
Mendoza is a new, super efficient format for expressing differences between JSON documents.
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Ruby on Rails in a week
I had 7 days to learn Ruby on Rails. I often think about approaches to learning, and it was time to put my ideas into practice.
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Pyston v2: Faster Python
We’re very excited to release Pyston v2, a faster and highly compatible implementation of the Python programming language. Version 2 is 20% faster than stock Python 3.8 on our macrobenchmarks…
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Build a Game This November with GitHub Game Off
Game Off, our annual game jam (a hackathon for building games) returns this weekend. Participants will be given a secret theme on November 1 and will have the entire month…