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What Makes .NET Core So Special?
Technical blog of Microsoft certified developer James Hickey. Helping you reach the next step of your career as a software developer!
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,636 posts.
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A History of the Sentence "Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo." (1999-2015)
See also: "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" , Wikipedia (accessed May 4, 2008).
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How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2018: NLL edition
Niko Matsakis recently blogged about the Rust compiler’s new borrow checker , which implements non-lexical lifetimes (NLL). The new borrow checker is a really nice improvement to Rust, because it accepts many sound programs that the old borrow checker rejected.
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.NET Standard 2.1
Since we shipped .NET Standard 2.0 about a year ago, we’ve shipped two updates to .NET Core 2.1 and are about to release .NET Core 2.2. It’s time to update the standard to include some of the new concepts as well as a number of small improvements that make your life easier across the various implementations […]
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The Rust borrow checker from a different perspective
Today we’re looking at the rust borrow checker from a different perspective. As you may know, the borrow checker is designed to safely handle memory allocation and ownership, preventing accessess to invalid memory and ensuring data-race freedom. This is a form of resource management: the borrow checker is tracking…
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Learning Clojure: comparing with Java streams
This is the 6th post in the Learning Clojure focus series. In general, one learns by comparing to what one already knows: I’m learning Clojure in that way. Coming from a Java background, I naturally want to use streaming features. So, what would be the Clojure counterparts of Java’s functions filter(), map(), etc.?
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Why I love Common Lisp and hate Java (2012)
“Common what?” is a common reply I get when I mention Common Lisp. Perhaps rightly so, since Common Lisp is not all that common these days. Developed in the sixties, it is one of the ol…
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Crystal 0.27.0 released
Crystal 0.27.0 has been released!
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Minesweeper in Clojure
As a fun experiment, and to show the basics of clojure development, I implemented a minesweeper clone using clojurescript and p5.js.
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Fear, trust and JavaScript: When types and functional programming fail
Explore the challenges and solutions when applying types and functional programming concepts in JavaScript. This insightful blog post delves into the complexities of managing data shape, immutability, and trust in dynamic code, offering practical advice and alternative approaches to enhance code reliability and…
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Not Lisp again (2009)
A blog about computers, functional languages, Lisp, and Scheme.
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Rust can be difficult to learn and frustrating, but it's also very exciting
Rust can be difficult to learn and frustrating, but its also the most exciting thing in software development in a long time. Learn more by reading our blog.
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This Old Lisp
This is the keynote talk that I gave at the 2018 European Lisp Symposium in Marbella, Spain.
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Python's New Package Landscape
Everything you need to know today about Python Packaging: PEPs 517/518, pyproject.toml, Pipenv, setuptools, and—of course—pip.
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Haskell's kind system: a primer
In this post we’ll explore Haskell’s kind system, the similarities between types and kinds, and show how these can be leveraged to write safer and more reusable code.
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App Engine’s New Go 1.11 Runtime
Google Cloud is announcing a new Go 1.11 runtime for App Engine, with fewer limits on app structure.
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Asterisks in Python
There are a lot of places you’ll see * and ** used in Python. These two operators can be a bit mysterious at times, both for brand new programmers...
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Faster R with FastR
R is a programming language for statistical computing known for its rich ecosystem of 3rd party libraries called “packages”. The R…
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Porting C to Rust
You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites . This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.
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An Elm compiler for the Erlang Virtual Machine
I’ve been exploring the idea of an Elm compiler that produces assembly for the Erlang Virtual Machine. You can find the code for this project on GitHub . This essay documents some interesting parts of the project.
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Rust RAII is better than the Haskell bracket pattern
Last week, I wrote a blog post about ResourceT, and mentioned Rust's RAII being better than Haskell's bracket pattern. In this blog post, I demonstrate what this advantage is.
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Programming as interaction: A new perspective for programming language research
In programming research, we say a lot about programs and languages, but very little about the actual process of programming. One simple trick that will make programming language research significantly more interesting is to think about programs not as expressions, but as a result of a sequence of interactions that…
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The benefits and costs of writing a POSIX kernel in a high-level language
This paper presents an evaluation of the use of a high-level language (HLL) with garbage collection to implement a monolithic POSIX-style kernel. The goal is to explore if it is reasonable to use an HLL instead of C for such kernels, by examining performance costs, implementation challenges, and programmability and…