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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 58 posts.
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Building StatHat with Go
How StatHat uses Go, and why they chose it.
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From zero to Go: launching on the Google homepage in 24 hours
How Go helped launch the Google Doodle for Thanksgiving 2011.
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PEP 263 – Defining Python Source Code Encodings
This PEP proposes to introduce a syntax to declare the encoding of a Python source file. The encoding information is then used by the Python parser to interpret the file using the given encoding. Most notably this enhances the interpretation of Unicode ...
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LLVM 3.0 Type System Rewrite
One of the most pervasive IR (and thus compiler API) changes in LLVM 3.0 was a complete reimplementation of the LLVM IR type system. This change was long overdue (the original type system lasted from LLVM 1.
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Xmonad 0.10 was released
This page is for keeping a record of significant changes in darcs xmonad and xmonad-contrib since the 0.9 releases. See darcs changes in the source repositories for the patches and more details covering documentation and bug fixes not noted here. Xmonad 0.9 was released on 26 October 2009, and Xmonad 0.10 on 18…
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PyPy 1.7 released: widening the sweet spot
We're pleased to announce the 1.7 release of PyPy. As became a habit, this release brings a lot of bugfixes and performance improvements ove...
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The Go Programming Language turns two
Happy 2nd birthday, Go!
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Perl tutorials suck (and cause serious damage)
Before reading this entry, please note that this problem has been solved. You can now find fresh tutorials at the:
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A Python Optimization Anecdote
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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Perl is no more accurate than randomly-generated language
IEEE Software is publishing a short retrospective on this project in 2024. A preprint is available on the magazine's site , or you can download a PDF directly.
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Why Dart is not the language of the future.
The spec has even a chapter on factories (static constructors). (Oh my, factories? it's like 1997 and design patterns all over again!) I should note that the integration of popular design patterns at the syntax level is disappointing: design patterns tend to emerge to work around a language design's weaknesses…
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Google introduces Dart, a new programming language for web applications
By Lars Bak, Software Engineer, Dart Team Cross-posted on the Chromium Blog Today we are introducing an early preview of Dart , a class...
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Merging In The GNU D Language Compiler To GCC
This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
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Scala on Heroku
The sixth official language on the Heroku polyglot platform is Scala, available in public beta on the Cedar stack starting today. Scala deftly blends...
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Python and Django on Heroku
Python has joined the growing ranks of officially-supported languages on Heroku's polyglot platform, going into public beta as of today. Python is the...
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Greedy Register Allocation in LLVM 3.0
LLVM has two new register allocators: Basic and Greedy. When LLVM 3.0 is released, the default optimizing register allocator will no longer be linear scan, but the new greedy register allocator.
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This is CoffeeScript
I’ve been writing some CoffeeScript lately, and it’s been fantastic. I wish I...
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PyPy 1.6 Released - Full Python 2.7.1 Implementation
We're pleased to announce the 1.6 release of PyPy. This release brings a lot of bugfixes and performance improvements over 1.5, and improve...
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PyPy is faster than C, again: string formatting
String formatting is probably something you do just about every day in Python, and never think about. It's so easy, just "%d %d" % (i, i) ...
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Java 7 is now available
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Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku
Japanese version here (日本語版はこちら). Today marks a very special occasion in the history of Heroku, as we are honored to announce that Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumot
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Tutorial: Writing an Interpreter with PyPy, Part 1
This is a guest blog post written by Andrew Brown , with help from the PyPy developers on the pypy-dev mailing list. This tutorial's master...