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TypeScript 2.3
Today we're excited to bring you our latest release with TypeScript 2.3! For those who aren't familiar, TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that brings
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TypeScript at Slack
When Brendan Eich created the very first version of JavaScript for Netscape Navigator 2.0 in merely ten days, it’s likely that he did not expect how far the Slack Desktop App would take his invention: We use one JavaScript code base to build a multi-threaded desktop application, routinely interacting with native code…
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Kotlin/Native Tech Preview: Kotlin without a VM
We are happy to announce the first Technology Preview of Kotlin/Native that compiles Kotlin directly to machine code. The Kotlin/Native compiler produces standalone executables that can run without an
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The miracle of reading and writing Chinese characters
March 26, 2017 @ 9:24 am · Filed by Victor Mair under Information technology , Language and computers , Language teaching and learning , Writing , Writing systems
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Red programming language 0.6.2: LibRed and Macros
It is with great pleasure that we announce the 0.6.2 release of the Red programming language and toolchain. This release is the second heavi...
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From Ruby to Crystal: A Quick Look
I'll definitely keep an eye on Crystal as it comes out of its beta phase. The syntax is familiar and easy to pick up and the performance is great.
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How I Start: Go (2014)
Go is a lovely little programming language designed by smart people you can trust and continuously improved by a large and growing open-source community .
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PyPy2.7 and PyPy3.5 v5.7 released
The PyPy team is proud to release both PyPy2.7 v5.7 (an interpreter supporting Python v2.7 syntax), and a beta-quality PyPy3.5 v5.7 (an in...
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The Logic Behind Japanese Sentence Structure
In this article, I break down Japanese sentence structure and show you exactly how Japanese sentences work. A solid understanding of this will save you a huge amount of time trying to make sense of Japanese grammar.
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An Upgrade to SyntaxNet, New Models and a Parsing Competition
Posted by David Weiss and Slav Petrov, Research ScientistsAt Google, we continuously improve the language understanding capabilities used in applic...
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Scala Native v0.1
We’re excited to announce the first release of Scala Native , an optimising ahead-of-time compiler for Scala built on top of the LLVM compiler infrastructure.
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Notes on Programming in C – Rob Pike (1989)
What follows is a set of short essays that collectively encourage a philosophy of clarity in programming rather than giving hard rules. I don't expect you to agree with all of them, because they are opinion and opinions change with the times. But they've been accumulating in my head, if not on paper until now, for a…
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New Features in C# 7.0
Here is a description of all the new language features in C# 7.0, which came out last Tuesday as part of the Visual Studio 2017 release. C# 7.0 adds a number of new features and brings a focus on data consumption, code simplification and performance. Perhaps the biggest features are tuples, which make it easy […]
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F# 4.1 and Visual F# Tools for Visual Studio 2017
Announcing F# 4.1 and the Visual F# Tools for Visual Studio 2017 Last year, we announced F# 4.1 via a Peek in F# 4.1. As a recap, we mentioned: Alpha support for .NET Core and .NET Standard Language features for F# 4.1 A big update to the Visual F# tools for Visual Studio 2017 (called […]
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Go 2016 Survey Results
What we learned from the December 2017 Go User Survey.
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The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages
“The Implementation of Functional Languages” is a book about implementing functional programming languages using lazy graph reduction, and it divides into three parts. The first part describes how to translate a high-level functional language into an intermediate language, called the lambda calculus, incuding detailed…
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How we secretly introduced Haskell and got away with it
Channable is a tool for marketeers and webshop owners that connects shops to market places, affiliate platforms, and comparison websites. We download product data through a feed or API connection, clean it up using our configurable rules engine, and we send the transformed data to any platform.
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Kotlin 1.1 Released with JavaScript Support, Coroutines and more
Members of our community have translated this blog post into several languages: Today we're releasing Kotlin 1.1. It is a big step forward that enables the use of Kotlin in many new scenarios, and
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Announcing TypeScript 2.2
Today our team is happy to present our latest release with TypeScript 2.2! For those who haven't yet heard of it, TypeScript is a simple extension to