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Fixing Python Performance with Rust
Why your JavaScript events are coming in quicker now.
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Donald Knuth used an Erlang-like notation
In this blogpost we'll see how Erlang's Syntax already appeared on TAOCP years before the language was even created.
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Node v6.9.0 (LTS)
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
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Let’s Run Lisp on a Microcontroller
I was inexplicably amazed by Lisp since the first day I've seen how Lisp programs look.
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How to speed up the Rust compiler
Rust is a great language, and Mozilla plans to use it extensively in Firefox. However, the Rust compiler (rustc) is quite slow and compile times are a pain point for many Rust users. Recently I’ve been working on improving that. This post covers how I’ve done this, and should be of interest to anybody else who wants…
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Taking PHP Seriously
Slack uses PHP for most of its server-side application logic, which is an unusual choice these days. Why did we choose to build a new project in this language? Should you? Most programmers who have only casually used PHP know two things about it: that it is a bad language, which they would never use if…
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Static types in Python
Over the last few years, static type checkers have become available for popular dynamic languages like PHP (Hack) and JavaScript (Flow and TypeScript), and have seen wide adoption. Two years ago, a provisional syntax for static type annotations was added to Python 3. However, static types in Python …
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PyPy3 5.5.0 released
We're pleased to announce the release of PyPy3 v5.5.0. Coming four months after PyPy3.3 v5.2, it improves compatibility with Python 3.3 (3.3...
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Julia 0.5 Highlights
It introduces more transformative features than any release since the first official version....
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Introducing HTTP Tracing
How to use Go 1.7's HTTP tracing to understand your client requests.
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Nim Programming Language v0.15.0 released
The Nim programming language is a concise, fast programming language that compiles to C, C++ and JavaScript.
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Vue 2.0 is here
Today I am thrilled to announce the official release of Vue.js 2.0: Ghost in the Shell. After 8 alphas, 8 betas and 8 rcs (a total…
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Modern Functional Programming: The Onion Architecture
The onion architecture may be the future of large-scale FP
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Introducing .NET Standard
Questions? Check out the .NET Standard FAQ. You can find the latest version of the compatibility matrix here. In my last post, I talked about how we want to make porting to .NET Core easier. In this post, I’ll focus on how we’re making this plan a reality with .NET Standard. We’ll cover which APIs we […]
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My love-hate relationship with LuaJIT (2015)
I love LuaJIT for its performance, but its complexity sometimes puts me off.
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Announcing TypeScript 2.0
Today we're excited to announce the final release of TypeScript 2.0! TypeScript 2.0 has been a great journey for the team, with several contributions from
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LL and LR Parsing Demystified (2013)
My first adventures in parsing theory came when I was doing anindependent study of programming languages in college. When I got tothe part about algorithms s...
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My experience rewriting Enjarify in Rust
I have moved off Medium to a personal blog. Click here for the updated post.
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Gorgonia: a library like Theano or TensorFlow, mainly written in Go
I released Gorgonia on Thursday. Gorgonia is a library like Theano or TensorFlow, but mainly written in Go. It provides the necessary primitives for creating and executing neural networks and machine learning algorithms. According to cloc, these are the stats…
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Node v6.6.0
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
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Let's Build a Simple Interpreter, Part 1 (2015)
“If you don’t know how compilers work, then you don’t know how computers work. If you’re not 100% sure whether you know how compilers work, then you don’t know how they work.” — Steve Yegge There you have it. Think about it. It doesn’t really matter …
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