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“Safe C++ Subset” Is Vapourware
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,637 posts.
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Baby Steps: Slowly Porting Musl to Rust
ramblings by Adam Perry
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Go stack traces and the errors package
A few months ago I gave a presentation on my philosophy for error handling . In the talk I introduced a small errors package designed to support the ideas presented in the talk.
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Why Rust for Low-Level Linux Programming?
I think Rust is extremely well-suited for low level Linux systems userspace programming — daemons, services, command-line tools, that sort of thing. Low-level userspace code on Linux is almos…
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Nim Programming Language 0.14.0 released
The Nim programming language is a concise, fast programming language that compiles to C, C++ and JavaScript.
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Understanding the Elm type system
Articles about bootstrapping a business in tech and web development by Adam Waselnuk. I’m a first-time founder who is bootstrapping a software business. Follow along as I learn!
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Introduction to Metaprogramming in Nim
Metaprogramming is the writing of computer programs with the ability to treat programs as their data. It means that a program could be designed to read, generate, analyse and/or transform other programs, and even modify itself while running.
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From Java code to Java heap (2012)
The Java programming language is a high-level, object-oriented language. It is rapidly evolving across several fronts to simplify and accelerate development of modern applications.
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The Path to Rust
About six months ago, I started my first large-scale Rust-based project. I’d dabbled with the language in its early days, but back then it was a different beast, and not particularly approachable. I decided to try again, and I’m glad I did. Rust is quickly becoming my favorite language for all systems work (which is…
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Clojure - spec Guide
The spec library ( API docs ) specifies the structure of data, validates or conforms it, and can generate data based on the spec.
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Death of a Language Dilettante
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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The Elixir of concurrency
Elixir is a fairly young language that was born when José and a few Rails developers tried to create a modern language optimized for concurrent, distributed, lightweight processes They wanted a modern Ruby-like syntax with a well-tested process ma
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Visual Basic Turns 25
That’s right! Today marks the 25th (“Silver Anniversary”) since VB first debuted to the world. It seems like just yesterday I’d only been at Microsoft a little over a year when VB turned 20. Looking back at the progress of 5 years—a complete revamp of the IDE and debugger, a trove of new language features, […]
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Clojure.spec – Rationale and Overview
Clojure is a dynamic language. Among other things this means that type annotations are not required for code to run. While Clojure has some support for type hints, they are not an enforcement mechanism, nor comprehensive, and are limited to communicating information to the compiler to aid in efficient code generation…
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Moving Away from Python 2
About a month ago I tweeted this: Thought: get the maintainers of a bunch of big Python libraries to sign something saying that they WILL drop Python 2.7 support in 2020.— Aaron Meurer (@asmeurer) Mar
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Microsoft Edge supports ES6 modules
Chakra, the recently open-sourced JavaScript engine that powers Microsoft Edge and Universal Windows applications, has been pushing the leading edge of ECMAScript language support. Most of ES2015 (aka ES6) language support is already available in Edge, and last week’s Windows Insider Preview build 14342 brings more…
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