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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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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…
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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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...
The story of a new programming language
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 …
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.
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…
RESTful API in Rust, impressions
Cocoa, the Swift standard library, maybe even your own types and methods—it’s all about to change, and you can help determine how.
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.
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.
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…
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We are pleased to announce the release of Clojure 1.8. Some of the new features for 1.8 are: More string functions in clojure.string (portable to ClojureScri...
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Apple has been actively evangelizing the use of Swift since it was announced at WWDC in 2014. In the Platforms State of the Union, Andreas…
