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Rust Ownership Explained with Python
Mostly software: Rust, machine learning, and P2P systems. Previously, games and cocktails.
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The relative performance of C and Rust
My blog post on falling in love with Rust got quite a bit of attention – with many being surprised by what had surprised me as well: the high performance of my naive Rust versus my (putatively less naive?) C. However, others viewed it as irresponsible to report these performance differences, believing that these…
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Zig 0.3.0 Released
Zig is an open-source programming language designed for robustness , optimality , and clarity . Zig is aggressively pursuing its goal of overthrowing C as the de facto language for system programming. Zig intends to be so practical that people find themselves using it even if they dislike it.
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Stop writing lambda expressions in Python
Note: This post was originally titled “Stop writing lambda expressions in Python” but I’ve changed the title after deciding that it was a little...
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Announcing TypeScript 3.1
Today we're announcing the release of TypeScript 3.1!If you haven't heard of TypeScript, it's a language that builds on top of modern JavaScript and adds
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Nim 0.19
The Nim team is happy to announce that the latest release of Nim, version 0.19.0, is now available. Nim is a systems programming language that focuses on performance, portability and expressiveness.
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The future of Java and OpenJDK updates without Oracle support
This post describes the furture support for Java and OpenJDK updates, now that Oracle has announced that soon it will no longer supply free binaries for JDK releases or write patches for bugs.
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How we rolled out one of the largest Python 3 migrations
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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Crafting Interpreters: Strings
“Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?” The doctor cocked an eyebrow. “Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart unfettered.”
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A Programming Language Underdog
As devs in late 2018, we’ve got lots of programming language choices. Mainstream ones alone, there’s about a dozen or so of them. They’re all awesome. As you wander a bit further down the obscurity path, you’ll find languages like elm , elixir , purescript , and reason . And just past those, you’ll find nim .
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Inside cpyext: Why emulating CPython C API is so Hard
cpyext is PyPy's subsystem which provides a compatibility layer to compile and run CPython C extensions inside PyPy. Often people ask ...
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What’s the difference between an integer and a pointer?
The Standard does not require that implementations define intptr_t nor uintptr_t. It also does not require that implementations define integer-to-pointer conversions in any meaningful fashion unless they define those types. Conforming implementations are certainly allowed to document some integer-to-pointer…
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Deep learning experiments in OCaml
Last year we held a machine learning seminar in our London office, which was an opportunity to reproduce some classical deep learning results with a nice twi...
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Falling in love with Rust
Let me preface this with an apology: this is a technology love story, and as such, it’s long, rambling, sentimental and personal. Also befitting a love story, it has a When Harry Met Sally feel to it, in that its origins are inauspicious…
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Native Clojure with GraalVM
GraalVM challenges the status quo on the JVM. This newly-released just-in-time compiler brings substantial speed improvements and support for polyglot applications. It also allows us to translate our JVM bytecode into small self-contained native binaries. In this session we’ll explore Graal’s impact on Clojure. We’ll…
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My RustConf 2018 Closing Keynote
I promised two things when I did the closing keynote at RustConf 2018:
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How to write X in both Python 3 and JavaScript
Python and JavaScript are two of the most popular programming languages . If you're a Python programmer learning JavaScript, or a JavaScript programmer learning Python, this handy cheat sheet might help you.
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Ending PHP Support, and the Future of Hack
Ending Support for PHP
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Writing a simple SQL interpreter in Julia
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Why Rust closures are somewhat hard
My Rustic Ramblings
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Clojure is cool
I had heard of it years ago, but never really gave it a lot of thought (or time) to it, despite being a huge fan of Common Lisp and a bit of a language polyglot. I think part of my initial reluctance may have been 'java' - as I would typically associate just the negatives to it (cumbersome language syntax, slow start…
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