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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,709 posts.
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Compiling Julia for NVIDIA GPUs
For the few last months, I have been working on CUDA support for the Julia language . It is now possible to write kernels in Julia and without much hassle execute them on a NVIDIA GPU, but there are still many limitations.
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Destructuring and Recursion in ES6
Arrays are JavaScript’s “native” representation of lists. Lists are important because they represent ordered collections of things, and ordered collections are a fundamental abstraction for making sense of reality.
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Syntax across languages
Looking for operator or function names? Well have a look at the following and remember using existing one may ease the transition :)
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Swift Resistance
I feel like every time I sit down to actually start using Swift, I'm constantly battling with the language. My latest challenge: creating a backing buffer of pixel data that will be rendered t…
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Use Haskell for shell scripting
turtle 1.0 announcement post
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Main is usually a function – when is it not?
It began when my coworker, despite already knowing how to program, was forced to take the intro level Computer Science course at my university. We joked with...
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What makes Nim practical?
In my last post I showed what makes the Nim programming language special. Today, let’s consider Nim from another angle: What makes Nim a practical programming language?
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Retiring Python as a Teaching Language
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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Explore the ownership system in Rust
Articles and tutorials about Rust, Embedded development and Computer Graphics.
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I think I've solved the Haskell records problem
Today I’m releasing the “record” library, which is an API of just two quasi-quoters, providing a full-scale solution to the notorious records problem of Haskell!
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Why Perl Didn't Win
Perl used to be everywhere. Its fall from grace wasn't inevitable. Here's how it could have been prevented.
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A Quick Comparison of Nim vs. Rust
Arthur’s thoughts on coding, software engineering, and other interesting things.
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If Scheme's numbers were like Scheme
Scheme's numbers are not like the rest of its library. They're older, and they're mostly borrowed from other languages (Maclisp and Common L...
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151-byte static Linux binary in Rust
Part of the sales pitch for Rust is that it's "as bare metal as C". 1 Rust can do anything C can do, run anywhere C can run, 2 with code...
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Make Your Own Programming Language
This is part 1 in a series of blog posts that follow my work in creating a programming language.
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Clojure 2014 Year in Review
My unscientific, incomplete, thoroughly biased view of interesting things that happened with Clojure in 2014.
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What is special about Nim?
Russian Translation by frol , Chinese Translation by JiyinYiyong , Japanese Translation by Mutsuha Asada
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Julia is awesome, but..
Here's a language that gives near-C performance that feels like Python or Ruby with optional type annotations (that you can feed to one of two static analysis tools ) that has good support for macros plus decent-ish support for FP, plus a lot more. What's not to like? I'm mostly not going to talk about how great Julia…