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Nim is a young and exciting imperative programming language that is nearing its 1.0 release. My main motivation for using Nim is its performance / productivity ratio and the joy of programming in Nim. In this guide I’m going to show you how I start a Nim project.
By now you've heard the announcement that the Perl 6 team is cautiously hopeful that Perl 6.0.0 will be released this year. There are three things they need to finish:
PyPy 2.5.0 - Pincushion Protea We’re pleased to announce PyPy 2.5, which contains significant performance enhancements and bug fixes. ...
For the few last months, I have been working on CUDA support for the Julia language . It is now possible to write kernels in Julia and without much hassle execute them on a NVIDIA GPU, but there are still many limitations.
Arrays are JavaScript’s “native” representation of lists. Lists are important because they represent ordered collections of things, and ordered collections are a fundamental abstraction for making sense of reality.
If you are reading this and you didn't hear that Larry bit the bullet, rolled the dice, flipped the coin, shattered the space time continuum...breathe... then you really are going to get a shock.
Looking for operator or function names? Well have a look at the following and remember using existing one may ease the transition :)
I feel like every time I sit down to actually start using Swift, I'm constantly battling with the language. My latest challenge: creating a backing buffer of pixel data that will be rendered t…
turtle 1.0 announcement post
Use ES6 on your next project.
My colleague Peter Moon wrote the guest post below and asked me to get it out to the world ASAP! — Jeff; AWS currently offers SDKs for seven different programming languages – Java, C#, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, PHP, and Objective C (iOS), and we closely follow the language trends among our customers and the general […]
It began when my coworker, despite already knowing how to program, was forced to take the intro level Computer Science course at my university. We joked with...
In my last post I showed what makes the Nim programming language special. Today, let’s consider Nim from another angle: What makes Nim a practical programming language?
I was recently profiling a production Shopify application server using perf and noticed a fair amount of time being spent in a particular function, st_lookup, which is used by Ruby’s MRI implementation for hash table lookups: Hash tables are used all over MRI, and not just for the Hash object; global variables…
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
We've spoken in the past about teaching Clang to fully support Windows and be compatible with MSVC. Until now, a big missing piece in this story has been debugging the clang-generated executables.
Articles and tutorials about Rust, Embedded development and Computer Graphics.
Today I’m releasing the “record” library, which is an API of just two quasi-quoters, providing a full-scale solution to the notorious records problem of Haskell!
Perl used to be everywhere. Its fall from grace wasn't inevitable. Here's how it could have been prevented.
Arthur’s thoughts on coding, software engineering, and other interesting things.
Idioms and patterns for handling errors in Go.
Scheme's numbers are not like the rest of its library. They're older, and they're mostly borrowed from other languages (Maclisp and Common L...
Part of the sales pitch for Rust is that it's "as bare metal as C". 1 Rust can do anything C can do, run anywhere C can run, 2 with code...
