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Metaprogramming for madmen
This post is part of the series “Debris: Opening the box”. Okay, previous posts from this series aimed to actually convey useful technical information: assuming you actually want to wri…
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PHP: a fractal of bad design
(This article has been translated into Spanish (PDF, with some additions) by Jorge Amado Soria Ramirez — thanks!) Preface I’m cranky. I complain about a lot of things. There’s a lot in the world of technology I don’t like, and that’s really to be expected—programming is a hilariously young discipline, and none of us
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Unicode in Python 3
A list of things about unicode on Linux and Python 3 you really did not want to know.
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Programming with Nothing (2011)
I love Ruby! I’ve used it every day for years and I’m not sick of it yet. It’s an easy language to love: it’s expressive, flexible and syntactically beautiful ; it has a unique combination of useful features like mixins , metaclasses and blocks ; it comes with a useful core library and comprehensive standard library …
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Extension Points, or how OCaml is becoming more like Lisp
(OCaml 4.02 is entering a feature freeze, which makes it a good time to stop and take a look at what to expect for this release. This is the first of a few b...
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Architecture of a Real World Haskell Application
There were numerous posts on reddit, SO and the like which were asking for how to architect real world Haskell applications. Well, this is my go at it for an in-house testing tool which is used extensively. I would not claim myself an advanced Haskeller, some of the code is probably not idiomatic Haskell (and also…
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Rust for C++ programmers – part 5: borrowed references
In the last post I introduced unique pointers. This time I will talk about another kind of pointer which is much more common in most Rust p...
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PyPy.js: Now faster than CPython
OK OK, I couldn't resist that title but it probably goes a bit far. Let me try for a little more nuance:
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GitHub Language Trends
A while ago, I wanted to get a little quick feedback on some data I was playing with, but the day was almost over and I wasn’t done working on it yet. I decided to tweet my rough draft of a graph of GitHub language trends anyway, followed later by a slight improvement. Much to my surprise,
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Thinking in Types
A programming language with a type system can help you design abstractions and avoid mistakes.
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Value Types for Java – A sketch of proposed enhancements
This is a sketch of proposed enhancements to the Java Virtual Machine instruction set, and secondarily to the Java Language, to support small immutable, identityless value types . (They may also be considered as identityless aggregates, user-defined primitives, immutable records, or restricted classes.) This is an…
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Introducing the new PHP on Heroku
PHP developers are makers at heart. The core strength of PHP has always been in creating a tight feedback cycle between developers and their audiences.
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Rust for C++ programmers – part 4: unique pointers
Rust is a systems language and therefore must give you raw access to memory. It does this (as in C++) via pointers. Pointers are one area w...
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Uncle Bob on DHH: Monogamous TDD
“Test-first fundamentalism is like abstinence-only sex ed: An unrealistic, ineffective morality campaign for self-loathing and shaming.”
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Syntax extensions and regular expressions for Rust
WARNING: 2018-04-12 : The code snippets for this post are no longer available. This is just as well anyway, since they all depended on an unstable internal compiler interface, which hasn’t existed for years.
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Go's power is in emergent behavior
What was the first thing you saw in Go that surprised you?
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The JavaScript Problem
It makes many aspects of JavaScript sane and convenient, and you get a compilation check that verifies syntax, however it still suffers greatly from weak-typing.
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Learning Racket #2: Macros, Macros and a Bit of Modules
https://web.archive.org/web/20201121162125/https://artyom.me/learning-racket-2
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Why monads have not taken the Common Lisp world by storm (2008)
Topics : monads, Common Lisp, functional programming Author : Marijn Haverbeke Date : July 11th 2008
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Porting the Go compiler from C to Go
Product updates, engineering notes, and perspectives from Sourcegraph.
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Elixir v0.13.0 released, hex.pm and ElixirConf announced
Elixir v0.13.0 comes with substantial improvements to the language: maps, structs, comprehensiona and more. It also marks the announcement of the hex.pm package manager and the announcement of ElixirConf.
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Let the Type System do the Work
How to use your language's most-overlooked feature to its utmost.