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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,634 posts.
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Code Generation in Rust vs. C++26
One of the things I like to do is compare how different languages solve the same problem — especially when they end up having very different approaches. It’s always educational. In this case, a bunch of us have been working hard on trying to get reflection — a really transformative language feature — into C++26…
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A Tour of Hell – Shell scripting Haskell dialect
This set of slides sketches out the implementation of Hell , in technical detail. I do tend to switch between the slides, old code, and the present code, so bear with me. It's more about the ideas. If you want to see a complete implementation, the complete implementation of Hell is one file , which you can look…
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Notes on the Crystal Language
You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites . This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.
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Is English a “creole Language”?
September 28, 2024 @ 5:50 am · Filed by Mark Liberman under Linguistics in the comics
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Everything you need to know about Python 3.13 – JIT and GIL went up the hill
All you need to know about the latest Python release including Global Interpreter Lock and Just-in-Time compilation.
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Rewriting Rust: A Response
Joseph Gentle wrote a post on how he wants Rust to change. I am already working on that.
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Tcl 9.0
Tcl/Tk 9.0 is the latest major release of both Tcl and Tk. It features many new capabilities, and presents some incompatibilities with Tcl/Tk 8.
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Rewriting Rust
The Rust programming language feels like a first generation product. You know what I mean. Like the first iPhone - which was amazing by the way. They made an entire operating system around multitouch. A smart phone with no keyboard. And a working web browser. Within a few months, we
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The lost language extensions of MetaWare's High C compiler (2023)
This book I got in a pile of FM TOWNS books turns out to be a lot more interesting that I was expecting an '80s C compiler manual to be. For as long as C and its relatives have been in mainstream use,…
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Why is F# code robust and reliable?
F# is not just for math and big data, it's a general purpose language that will greatly reduce the amount of bugs in your code.
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Rust panics under the hood, and implementing them in .NET
I am currently working on a Rust to .NET compiler, rustc_codegen_clr . To get it to work, I need to implement many Rust features using .NET APIs. One of such features is panicking and unwinding.
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Optimizing Guile Scheme
Guile is a rather niche language that I love dearly. Guile is a Scheme dialect that features an advanced optimizing bytecode compiler, a JIT compiler, and a modest set of developer tools for inspecting and debugging. Through my time spent developing Chickadee , a game programming library, I have gotten quite familiar…
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A Friendly Introduction to Assembly for High-Level Programmers
A friendly introduction to assembly for high-level programmers — Hello
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Swift 6
We’re delighted to announce the general availability of Swift 6. This is a major new release that expands Swift to more platforms and domains.
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Factor 0.100 Now Available
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” — Kierkegaard
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Porting SBCL to the Nintendo Switch
For the past two years Charles Zhang and I have been working on getting my game engine, Trial, running on the Nintendo Switch. The primary challenge in doing this is porting the underlying Common Lisp runtime to work on this platform. We knew going into this that it was going to be hard, but it has proven to be quite…
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Why Haskell?
Haskell is a great programming language with many features that make it easier to write robust software, and yet it is rarely taken up by software engineering teams. This essay aims to explain my views as to why Haskell is a great choice for programmers.
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Design Patterns Are Temporary, Language Features Are Forever
Design patterns are these cool things that make you go 'hell yeah' because they make a certain problem easier to deal with. Whether it's applicable to all languages, or due to a language constraint, they're pretty nice. Of course, some people go crazy with them rather than doing the simple thing that works. Other…
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Bitten by Unicode
One product of mine takes reports that come in as a table that’s been exported to PDF, which means text extraction. For dollar figures I find a prefixed dollar symbol and convert the number following it into a float . If there’s a hyphen in addition to the dollar symbol, it’s negative.
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Conservative GC can be faster than precise GC
wingolog: article: conservative gc can be faster than precise gc
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Swift is a more convenient Rust
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A tiny self-remaking C program
In my last post I floated the idea of writing a slow, edit-prone shell script instead as a self-rebuilding C program.
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Clojure 1.12.0 is now available
Clojure 1.12.0 is now available! Find download and usage information on the Downloads page.
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Lesser known parts of Python standard library
Code level discussion of web scraping, gray hat automation, growth hacking and bounty hunting
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Goja: A Golang JavaScript Runtime
The personal website of JT Archie. Includes a blog, work ethic, and projects they have worked on.
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Parsing Awk Is Tricky
A somewhat compact implementation of the awk programming language