91
PyPy v5.9 Released
The PyPy team is proud to release both PyPy3.5 v5.9 (a beta-quality interpreter for Python 3.5 syntax) and PyPy2.7 v5.9 (an interpreter sup...
New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 433 posts.
92
Dictionary and Set Improvements in Swift 4.0
In the latest release of Swift, dictionaries and sets gain a number of new methods and initializers that make common tasks easier than ever. Operations like grouping, filtering, and transforming values can now be performed in a single step, letting you write more expressive and efficient code.
93
94
95
96
97
98
Build a web service with F# and .NET Core 2.0
Earlier this year, I wrote about an update to the roadmap for F# and .NET Core. I had mentioned that there were a number of things you could build with F# and .NET Core today, such as web services. In this post, I’ll walk through building a web service with F# and .NET Core 2.0 […]
99
Gnirehtet rewritten in Rust
Several months ago, I introduced Gnirehtet , a reverse tethering tool for Android I wrote in Java.
100
Project Jigsaw: Complete
It’s been a long road, but at last the puzzle is complete: Today we delivered Project Jigsaw for general use, as part of JDK 9 .
101
PEP 557 – Data Classes
This PEP describes an addition to the standard library called Data Classes. Although they use a very different mechanism, Data Classes can be thought of as “mutable namedtuples with defaults”. Because Data Classes use normal class definition syntax, y...
102
Why undefined behavior may call a never-called function
My twitter feed has recently been filled with discussions about the following program #include <cstdlib> typedef int (*Function)(); s...
103
Go: Ten years and climbing
Drawing Copyright ©2017 Renee French This week marks the 10th anniversary of the creation of Go. The initial discussion ...
104
Numba: High-Performance Python with CUDA Acceleration
Numba is an open-source Python compiler from Anaconda that can compile Python code for high-performance execution on CUDA-capable GPUs or multicore CPUs.
105
106
Global Mutable State
Global mutable state is one of the biggest drivers of complexity in software systems. We tackle a definition and how to reduce our reliance on it.
107
To type or not to type: quantifying detectable bugs in JavaScript
To type or not to type: quantifying detectable bugs in JavaScript Gao et al., ICSE 2017 This is a terrific piece of work with immediate practical applications for many project teams. Is it worth th…
108
The Future of HHVM
Several months ago, PHP officially announced the end-of-life forPHP5.
109
Announcing CoffeeScript 2
We are pleased to announce CoffeeScript 2! This new release of the CoffeeScript language and compiler aims to bring CoffeeScript into the modern JavaScript era, closing gaps in compatibility with JavaScript while preserving the clean syntax that is CoffeeScript’s hallmark. In a nutshell:
110
111
The design side of programming language design
The word design is often used when talking about programming languages. In fact, it even made it into the name of one of the most prestigious academic programming conferences. Yet, it is almost impossible to come across a paper about programming languages that uses design methods to study its subject. In this article…
112
Std::visit is everything wrong with modern C++
Yet another programming blog. Thoughts on software and related misadventures.
113
Why Is Python Growing So Quickly?
We recently showed that, based on Stack Overflow question visits, Python has a claim to being the fastest-growing major programming language, and that it has become the most visited tag on Stack Overflow within high-income countries .
114
Java Reflection, 1000x Faster
A few weeks ago I got to make some of my code 1000 times faster, without changing the underlying complexity! As the title implies, this involved making Java reflection calls faster.
115
116
117
Node v8.5.0
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
118
119
Smalltalk Envy
I myself was not on the famous C3 (Chrysler Comprehensive Compensation System) project in 1996-2000 that is pivotal to ‘Extreme Programming’ (XP). That project used Smalltalk, and team contribution was provided by Object Technology International’s ENVY version control system. I wanted to know more about that so I…
120
C++17 is formally approved
[revised 9/8 to reflect that there is no need to wait till the next WG21 meeting] As I mentioned in my Kona (March) trip report, WG21 (the ISO C++ committee) completed work on C++17 at our March me…