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A taste of Rust for C/C++ programmers
If, like me, you've been frustrated with the status quo in systems languages, this article will give you a taste of why Rust is so exciting....
A Quick Intro to Rust Macros
Note : This article is for an obsolete version of Rust, and has been superceded by the slightly less misleadingly named "A Practical Intro to Macros in Rust 1.0" .
Functional options for friendly APIs
What follows is the text of my presentation, Functional options for friendly APIs that I gave at dotGo this year. It has been edited slightly for readability.
KDE makes Qt
Recently I was trying some statistics on the qtbase-module (where QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets and so on lives) and was wondering who made them. Not based on their current paid affilation, like Thiago’s graphs , but if each commit was made by a person coming from KDE.
Writing C in Cython
For the last two years, I’ve done almost all of my work in Cython. And I don’t mean, I write Python, and then “Cythonize” it, with various type-declarations etc. I just, wri…
Your language sucks
As a result of work I've been doing for illumos , I've recently gotten re-engaged with internationalization, and the support for this in li...
On Error Handling in Rust
My thoughts about error handling in APIs after writing a Redis library in Rust.
Brad Fitzpatrick on the future of Go
Product updates, engineering notes, and perspectives from Sourcegraph.
Why your first Rust FizzBuzz implementation may not work
An exploration into some initially surprising but great parts of Rust (though you still may not like them).
Talking about “types”
My essay “In Search of Types” attempts to be a dispassionate review of some of the different concepts, purposes and attitudes surrounding the word “type” in programming. I imagine that my passions are still rather thinly veiled in places. But in this post I'm going to come out with a more unabashedly ranty take…
Object Oriented Programming is an expensive disaster which must end
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Haskell, Monads and Purity
I believe the notion that Haskell uses “monads” to enforce purity is rather misleading. It has certainly caused quite a bit of confusion! It’s very much like saying we use “rings to do arithmetic”. We don’t! We use numbers, which just happen to form a ring with arithmetic operations. The important idea is the number …
Refactoring Ruby with Monads
Hello! I’m going to tell you about monads, and how we can uncover them by refactoring our Ruby code.
A Fresh Look at Rust
An updated report on my experience with Rust and where I think it might be going.
Clojure Distilled
The difficulty in learning Clojure does not stem from its syntax, which happens to be extremely simple, but from having to learn new methods for solving problems. As such, we'll focus on understanding the core concepts and how they can be combined to solve problems the functional way.
Clasp – A Common Lisp with LLVM back end and interoperation with C++
Hello, everyone! Click here for up to date build instructions Today I am happy to make the first release of the Common Lisp implementation “Clasp”. Clasp uses LLVM as its back-end and generates nat…
Official Go support
Go library for the Stripe API. . Contribute to stripe/stripe-go development by creating an account on GitHub.
Rust lifetimes: Getting away with things that would be reckless in C++
Random code snippets, projects and musings about software from Eric Kidd, a developer and occasional entrepreneur.
Say Hello to X64 Assembly Part 3
Stack Some time ago i started to write a series of posts about assembly x64 programming. It is third part and it will be about stack. The...
Ruby 2.1.3 is released
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.1.3.This is a patchlevel release of the stable 2.1 series.
Elixir v1.0.0 released
Elixir v1.0 is finally out.