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In this edition of the newsletter, we direct our attention to one of the most prominent highlights of the summer: the release of the Llama 2 base and chat models, as well as CodeLlama, the latest highlights in the open-source AI large language model (LLM) landscape.
In this article, I describe my journey creating a barely functional rust backend enabling compilation for the .NET runtime (Usually used to run C# and F#).
( This is part of a series on the design of zest . See the list of posts here .)
UPDATE: Wow, this post has gotten popular! I’ve written a new post that adds new papercuts combined with concrete suggestions for how C++ could improve, if you are interested. Also, if you want to read more about C++’s deeper-than-papercut issues, I recommend specifically my post on its move semantics. Thank you for…
In the following series of blog posts I will document my attempts to write Linux modules using the Ada language. In part 1, I will demonstrate how to write in Ada and build a simple "hello world" Linux kernel module. Additionally, I will introduce a basic customized Ada runtime to support our "hello world" module…
Rust should be improved to provide the necessary building blocks that are needed to write cryptography code that is free from timing side channels and similar hazards. These facilities should not be restricted to code within Rust -provided or -endorsed libraries; anybody should be able to use them to publish a crate…
For almost a complete decade—starting with discovering Haskell in about 2009 and right up until switching to a job where I used primarily...
This article shows the obscure but useful capabilities of Hash, a simple but equally powerful data structure in Ruby.
Historical reference to Ian Denhardt’s A Critique of the Cap'n Proto Schema Language (2019-06-25), with archive and current documentation links.
The reaction to John Cowan’s resignation as chair of the R 7 RS Large working group has been somewhat wider than I think anyone expected, making it onto general interest programming forums. Scheme may be a small island, but when it has an earthquake, it makes waves through the whole archipelago of programming…
Slides and videos explaining a functional approach to error handling
There are two main historical trends when choosing an implementation language for something compiler-shaped.
I’ve been leading a team developing an application using Elixir, Phoenix and LiveView for the last 18 months and accumulated some thoughts on the stack. For the most part, it has been a very pleasant experience.
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. Robin Williams
Now that Java 21 is features complete (Rampdown Phase Two at the day of writing), it’s time to walk through all the functionalities that bring to us, developers, this new version. This article is part of a series on what’s new on the last versions of Java, for those who wants to read the others,
People in the programming language design community strive to make their languages more expressive, with a strong type system, mainly to increase ergonomics by avoiding code duplication in final software; however, the more expressive their languages become, the more abruptly duplication penetrates the language itself.
Iterators in Go are a neat way to write “lazy loops”, where we never generate more results than we actually use. Let’s see what that would look like in Go programs, and what new facilities it gives us in the standard library.
By Gremlins, For Gremlins™
Where C# is the most dominant language in the .NET world, other languages are built on top of the Framework that deserves their respective place. F# is strong when it comes down to functional programming! In this blog post, we will leverage the power of F# and C# to showcase where both excel!
The question of which language suits best for compiler development is a frequent one amongst language enthusiasts (e.g., see discussions here , here , and here ). Sadly, most of the commenters either 1) just answer with their language of choice without any explanation, or 2) provide a vague explanation without any…
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I semi-regularly hear developers who claim that using Rust would not gain them anything because they would have to use `unsafe`. But this is not true. Local reasoning matters.
Improving API function calls using inline assembly
I'm traveling back in time to explore an ancient development workflow that is somehow more modern than today's workflows.
Update (2023-07-21): I was being a bit overly brief with liberal use of ... to mean “unimportant” in the code examples. Ginger Bill (creator of Odin) noted it might be clearer to have more correct/explicit Odin and Zig code for the examples given people would be less familiar. Those has been updated For the past few…
I have built a toy Java Virtual Machine in Rust, complete with garbage collection, exception handling, and the ability to run real Java bytecode using OpenJDK's rt.jar.
