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I’ve been on a C kick recently as I learn the intricacies involved in low level programming. As a Data Scientist/Python Programmer I work with strings all the time. People say that handling strings in C range anywhere from tricky to downright awful. I was curious so I decided to see how deep the rabbit hole went.
For more experienced functional programmers, most of this post will seem introductory, but I introduce some more advanced stuff near the end. Functional Programming over Canadian Programming Lately, I've been thinking about this Functional Programming journey I've been on. I thought it started when I was twenty, but
Note to readers: this is an April Fools post, intended to satirize bad arguments made against Rust. I have mixed feelings about it now, as I think people who understood the context appreciated the humor, but some people were confused. That’s partly because it’s written in a very persuasive style, and I mixed in some…
Visualize binary protocols by building parsers in Elixir.
APL was invented by Ken Iverson in the early 1960s as a notation for array oriented calculations. It was precise and useful enough, so it…
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 …
Epic Games released an initial public implementation of the Verse programming language. Verse has been designed by some people who really know what they’re doing:
In my last post about Zig and Rust, I mentioned that Rust is a scalable language. Let me expand on this a bit.
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I find myself thinking about a particular design principle of Rust today. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen it named specifically before, but it gets referred to from…
This post will be a bit all over the place. Several months ago, I wrote Hard Mode Rust, exploring an allocation-conscious style of programming. In the ensuing discussion, @jamii name-dropped TigerBeetle, a reliable, distributed, fast, and small database written in Zig in a similar style, and, well, I now find myself…
Little things you'll notice and need to learn when learning Zig
Last year I finally decided to learn some Rust. The official book by Steve Klabnik and Carol Nichols is excellent, but even after reading it and working on some small code exercises, I felt that I needed more to really understand the language. I wanted to work on a small project to get some hands-on experience, but…
I don't care about avoiding GC or about maximum performance. I treat Rust as a high level language.
Full Slice Expressions in Golang — A Rare Slice Trick
When the machines make machines, we're in a new world.
This semester, I am teaching Compilers , and I'm quite happy with how I covered parsing this year. Specifically, I taught students to build a top-down LR parser and it seemed to go relatively well.
Ferris meme Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. I have been writing C++ professionally for the last 4 years and 3 months ago I started a new job in Rust....
Some programming languages like Java or Scala offer more than one way to express a concept of “lack of value”. Traditionally, a special null value is used to...
After needing to do a deep dive on the venv module (which I will explain later in this blog post as to why), I thought I would explain how virtual environments work to help demystify them. Why do virtual environments exist? Back in my the day, there was no concept
This article goes through almost all of the changes of the last 3 years (and some from earlier) in JavaScript / ECMAScript and TypeScript.
It’s been nearly two and half years since I was an active contributor to the Rust project. There are some releases that I’ve been very excited about since then, and I’m heartened by Niko’s recent blog post emphasizing stability and polish over grand new projects. But I’ve also felt a certain apprehension at a lot of…
Don’t worry … it’s super easy 🙃
There are endless debates online about Rust vs. Zig, this post explores a side of the argument I don't think is mentioned enough.
I hope that the true promise of functional programming for parallel computing can be widely realized.
It's risky business fighting Intel, AMD, and Arm, and that's exactly what Star Five is trying to do with this: The chip on this new single board computer could be the start of a computing revolution—at least that's what some people think! The VisionFive 2 has a JH7110 SoC on it, sporting a new Instruction Set…
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co_lc is a lambda calculus extended with stackful coroutines. An efficient implementation for the compilation and virtual machine execution of co_lc is presented. The implementation supports tail-call optimization and eliminates all indirect calls by defunctionalizing closures.
A talk by Dave Gauer , 2023. Made with minslides , which I made for this talk . Use the J and K keys to go forward and backward. You can also just scroll down like a regular web page. Toggle notes/annotations with the N key.
