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If you’d asked me a only few months ago if there’ll ever be a printed version of Writing An Interpreter In Go I’d responded with a “Huh, uummm, well, I don’t know. Maybe. Maybe if I’ll find the time and if there’s any interest.”
I wrote a Rust crate to demangle C++ symbols: cpp_demangle. Find iton crates.io and github.
After the release of ECMAScript 2015, a.k.a. ES6, the ECMAScript Language Specification is evolving rapidly: it's getting many new features that will help developing web ...
I try to not read HN/Reddit too much about Pyston, since while there are certainly some smart and reasonable people on there, there also seem to be quite a few people with axes to grind (*cough cou…
I've been asking myself the question, what is Apple's plan for Swift and Objective-C? When Swift became public in 2014, its creator Chris Lattner seemed to claim that Swift and Objective-C would coexist indefinitely. From an xcode-users mailing list post:
Technical articles by Kevin Menard. Topics include Ruby, Java, machine learning, and general computing.
Are you arguing that undefined behaviour should not be a thing in, e.g., C? It sounds like you’re claiming that the fabled sufficiently smart compiler could take code in a C-like language with no UB, and emit something equivalent to what a C compiler would produce given equivalent input in C that correctly avoids UB…
Today marks the 15th anniversary since .NET debuted to the world. On February 13th, 2002, the first version of .NET was released as part of Visual Studio.NET. It seems just like yesterday when Microsoft was building its “Next Generation Windows Services” and unleashed a new level of productivity with Visual…
As noted in ASDL Implementation and Use Cases , I began with a simple AST interpreter for OSH, thinking that the two languages could share the same AST.
Ellie puts the Elm platform in your browser so you can try Elm, share ideas, and bring your programs to life.
Video presentation by Reid Evans on Getting Started with Functional Programming in F#. Here are my takeaways and thoughts on this great talk.
In a previous blog post, I observed that one of the medium-termpossibilities we’re seriously considering for NTPsec is moving theentire codebase out of...
Welcome back to the annual State of Clojure survey results. This year we held steady in our response rate as 2,420 of you took the time and effort to weigh in on your experience with Clojure - as always, we appreciate that time and effort very much. And, as always, thanks to Chas Emerick for starting this survey 7…
I really like C++. It's not the right tool for every job, but it's what I reach for when I need to do any kind of systems programming. Unfortunately, C++ has often been cited as a "bad" language, and I feel like that reputation has worsened over time. Recent languages like Go and Rust have taken over a lot of mind…
Rocket is a web framework for the Rust programming language that makes it simple to write fast web applications without sacrificing flexibility or type safety.
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
This article describes how you can build a simple LISP, based on the 1978 article <i>'A Micro Manual For LISP - Not The Whole Truth'</i> with Swift, taking advantage where possible of the features the language offers.
I’m not sure why I decided to create an Erlang backend for the PureScript compiler.The platform is somewhat interesting, but I didn’t know it, and I don’t ha...
The C Language Before we start, let’s get something straight; for over 30 years now I have had a love-hate relationship with the C programming language. The ‘engineer’ in me[1] sometimes just cannot believe we are still using C as the dominant embedded programming languages after all these years, and yet, I also see…
The .NET Language Strategy I am constantly aware of the enormous impact our language investments have on so many people’s daily lives. Our languages are a huge strength of the .NET platform, and a primary factor in people choosing to bet on it – and stay on it. I’ve been here on the .NET languages […]
