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Why Python keeps growing, explained
A deep dive into why more people are using Python than ever, its key use cases, and why it’s still so popular 30-plus years after it was first released.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 390 posts.
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Will Carbon Replace C++?
Is Carbon going to be a real replacement for C++? Let's find out.
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Zig's multi-sequence for loops
Loris Cro's Blog
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A Lambda Calculus with Coroutines and Heapless, Directly-Called Closures
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.
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mruby 3.2.0
mruby is the lightweight implementation of the Ruby language complying to (part of) the ISO standard. mruby can be linked and embedded within your application. We provide the interpreter program
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Forth: The programming language that writes itself
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.
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Elixir for Humans Who Know Python
A guide to the Elixir programming language for programmers who know Python.
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Rust on Espressif chips – 2023 Roadmap
Scott Mabin's blog
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Common Lisp Implementations in 2023
Much has been written on Common Lisp; there is rarely one year without someone proclaming the death of the language and how nobody uses it anymore. And yet it is still here, so something must have…
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C++ Coroutines
C++ is late to the coroutine party, compared to other programming languages, but they are part of C++20. Prior to coroutines, a C++ programmer had two choices, roughly speaking:
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John Carmack on Functional Programming in C++ (2018)
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When Rust hurts
Why I am not enjoying programming in Rust.
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Rust vs. Haskell
Even though Rust and Haskell are quite different languages, they are also surprisingly alike. If you know Rust, you have a head start with Haskell, and vice versa.
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Data Classification: Does Python still have a need for class without dataclass?
Does Python still have a need for class without @dataclass?
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Let's write a setjmp
Yesterday I wrote that setjmp is handy and that it would be nice to have without linking the C standard library. It’s conceptually simple, after all. Today let’s explore some differently-portable implementation possibilities with distinct trade-offs. At the very least it should illuminate why setjmp sometimes requires…
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My review of the C standard library in practice
In general, when working in C I avoid the standard library, libc, as much as possible. If possible I won’t even link it. For people not used to working and thinking this way, the typical response is confusion. Isn’t that like re-inventing the wheel? For me, libc is a wheel barely worth using — too many deficiencies in…
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Adding C-style for loops to Python (2022)
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Haskell is not category theory
What, why, who?
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C was not created as an abstract machine
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Python's “disappointing” superpowers
A response to Hillel Wayne’s “I am disappointed by dynamic typing”
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WebAssembly: Adding Python support to WASM language runtimes
Providing up-to-date, convenient WebAssembly builds of Python with WASI support
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Swift Achieved Dynamic Linking Where Rust Couldn't (2019)
For those who don’t follow Swift’s development, ABI stability has been one of its most ambitious projects and possibly it’s defining feature, and it finally shipped in Swift 5 . The result is something I find endlessly fascinating, because I think Swift has pushed the notion of ABI stability farther than any language…
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Lisping at JPL Revisited
It has been over 20 years since I wrote " Lisping at JPL ", half memoir and half geeky screed (and all of it half-baked) about how an obscur...
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Thoughts on what a next Rust compiler would do
In Rust in 2023, @nrc floated an idea of a Rust compiler rewrite. As my hobby is writing Rust compiler frontends (1, 2), I have some (but not very many) thoughts here! The post consists of two parts, covering organizational and technical aspects.
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