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Oftentimes when I am conversing about the design of Rust with other users - as on RFCs or the internals forum - I witness a peculiar remark about “explicitness.” It usually goes something like this: I do not like Feature Design X because it is too implicit. Magic is okay in Other Language Y, but Rust is supposed to be…
Case study in constexpr with C++17 compilers
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
According to the LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual ISBN 0 262 13011 4, `A' and `D' stand for `address' and `decrement', as on page 36 it says:
If you have never heard about functional programming before, I’ll have the honor to instill in you my view on it. If you have, you might know that it’s usually defined by some of …
Chinese Translation by oschina.net
Recently Julia Evans wrote an excellent post about debugging a segfault in Rust. (Go read it, it’s good) One thing it mentioned was I think “ …
How to work with multiple processes in Elixir
-> is right associative, The function definitions from the previous slide will be parsed like this:
This is the second post in a series. Read part 1 here.
Many years ago, I've been waiting for a language like Go. Back then, I was primarily working with C (for microcontrollers), and C++/Java/Python/etc (for bigger machines). These are great tools, but still I was longing for compiled, statically typed, memory-safe (and garbage collected) language, which compiles for the…
F# DependentTypes
Short introduction to the Prolog language and its essential features.
This is the first post in a series on writing your own C compiler. Here are some reasons to write a compiler:
In July 2016, I spent some time writing a GraphQL endpoint for an existing application in Go. I chose to implement the endpoint in Go based on prior experience, good concurrency support and the desire to have static type system. The GraphQL library for Go, graphql-go , worked pretty well, and I was able to build the…
In the movie Avatar , there’s this big badass bird-brained pterodactyl thing called a Toruk that the main character must learn to ride in order to regain the trust of the blue people. As a general rule, Toruks do not like to be ridden, but if you fight one, subdue it, and then link your Blue Man ponytail to the…
As some of you might know, I recently became enamoured with a new programming language, Carp. While you might have caught me fawning over it already, in…
Disclaimer: Most patterns are easy to implement because we use dynamic typing, functional programming and, of course, Clojure. Some of them look wrong and ugly. It’s okay. All characters are fake, coincidences are accidental.
