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Python 3 in 2016
My completely anecdotal view on the state of Python 3 in 2016. Based on my own recent experience, observations, and exchanges with other members of the Python community.
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Go 1.6 is Released
Go 1.6 adds HTTP/2, template blocks, and more.
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R, the master troll of statistical languages (2012)
Warning: what follows is a somewhat technical discussion of my love-hate relationship with the R statistical language, in which I somehow manage to waste 2,400 words talking about a single line of …
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cgo is not Go
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use cgo.” Now they have two problems.
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Kotlin 1.0 Released: Pragmatic Language for JVM and Android
This is it. 1.0 is here! It's been a long and exciting road but we've finally reached the first big 1.0, and we're celebrating the release by also presenting you with the new logo: See the discuss
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A bit of background for the unified C++ call proposal
C++ provides two calling syntaxes, x.f(y) and f(x,y). This has bothered me for a long time. I discussed the problem in the context of multimethods in D&E in 1994, referring back to a proposal by Doug Lea from 1991, and again in 2007. Each of the syntaxes has its virtues, but they force design decisions on people…
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Why Rust's ownership/borrowing is hard
Working with pure functions is simple: you pass arguments, you get a result — no side effects happen. If, on the other hand, a function does have side effects, like mutating its arguments or global objects, it's harder to reason about. But we've got used to those too: if you see something like player.set_speed(5) you…
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Stack traces in GHCi, coming in GHC 8.0.1
Bluesky: @simonmar.bsky.social Github: simonmar Email: marlowsd@gmail.com LinkedIn: Simon Marlow
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The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer (2001)
Some time later, I came across Iavor’s "jokes" page, including a funny bit called “ The Evolution of a Programmer ” in which the traditional imperative "Hello, world" program is developed through several variations, from simple beginnings to a ridiculously complex extreme. A moment’s thought turned up the factorial…
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The Zen of Erlang
This is a loose transcript (or long paraphrasing?) of a presentation given at ConnectDev'16, a conference organized by Genetec in which I was invited to speak.
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Writing a compiler in Ruby, bottom up (2008)
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Amplifying C (2010)
On C++ Having programmed in C++ professionally for well over 10 years I have learned all of it. I have all the books, I know all the tricks...
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“Screw it, I'll make my own” – The story of a new programming language
The story of a new programming language
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So you still don't understand Hindley-Milner? (2013)
I was out for drinks with Josh Long and some other friends from work, when he found out I "speak math." He had come across this …
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Rust vs. C++: Fine-grained Performance
If Rust is to take on work previously reserved to C++, we need to know how well it does what C++ does best. What’s fast, what’s slow? What’s harder to do, what’s easier? I wouldn’t know how to look up answers for those questions, but I can write programs.
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Deep Learning in Rust
Meta Edit 2/2/2016: I wrote this post when deeplearn-rs was only a week old. This is more of a journal post where I reflect on things. To…
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Rust for Web
RESTful API in Rust, impressions
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It's Coming: The Great Swift API Transformation
Cocoa, the Swift standard library, maybe even your own types and methods—it’s all about to change, and you can help determine how.
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Nuitka Progress in 2015 – Python Compiler
For quite a bit, there have been no status posts, not for lack of news, but a lot has happened indeed. I just seem to post a lot more to the mailing list than I do here. Especially about unfinished stuff, which is essentially for a project like Nuitka everything that’s going on.
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Why OCaml? [video]
Here’s a post from a talk I gave this last summer during our internship program about why we use OCaml. It spends a lot of time on how OCaml fits into the space of programming language designs, and why we think OCaml is in a real sweet spot in that design space, especially for the kind of work we do at Jane Street.
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I missed Nim (2014)
A year ago I wrote an article trying to round up new languages since year 2000 and what I think of them by just… glancing at them, or otherwise playing with them. I ended up sifting out the 4 m…