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This is the second in an indefinite series of posts about things that I think went well in the Sorbet project. The previous one covered our testing approach. Sorbet is fast. Numerous of our early users commented specifically on how fast it was, and how much they appreciated this speed. Our informal benchmarks on…
I’ve had a pleasure to work with Piotrek Jagielski for about two weeks on Clojure project. I’ve learned a lot, but there is still a lot to know about Clojure for me. In this post I’ll write what fasci
There's a lot you should know before you start creating software. Take time to understand the product, business, users, and overall project journey.
This blog post explains what the C++ Lifetime Profile is and how it intends to make the language safer and help avoid memory management problems.
Since Fred Brooks published his essay, I believe that we, contrary to his prediction, have witnessed several silver bullets.
The Lumen Project is an alternative implementation of the Erlang VM, more known as the BEAM. It is designed to work in WebAssembly with the specific goal of bringing Elixir and Erlang to the browser.
The story of how I finally got revenge on The VNC Guy back in my college days.
Andrey Petrov is the author of urllib3, the creator of Briefmetrics and ssh-chat, and a former Googler and YCombinator alum. He’s here to tell us of a...
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Extract table from image with Nanonets table detection OCR. Learn OCR table Deep Learning methods to detect tables in images or PDF documents.
Regardless of your opinions of the Go programming language , the primary implementation of Go, gc, is an incredible piece of software engineering. Everyone ought to be blown away by it! Yet not only is it undervalued in general, even the Go community itself doesn’t fully appreciate it. It’s not perfect, but it has…
PHP isn't the same old crappy language it was ten years ago
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Rust has been Stack Overflow's most loved language for four years in a row, indicating that many of those who have had the opportunity to use Rust have fallen in love with it. However, the roughly 97% of survey respondents who haven't used Rust may wonder, "What's the deal with Rust?"
Unexpected performance deviations depending on how you spell zero.
This technical deep-dive explains how V8 handles JavaScript properties behind the scenes.
Take an in-depth look at the MIR lightweight JIT compiler project's goals and state of development, such as the addition of support for CRuby.
Stories about my nerd projects
Internet debates about typing disciplines continue to be plagued by a pervasive myth that dynamic type systems are inherently better at modeling “open world” domains. The argument usually goes like this: the goal of static typing is to pin everything down as much as possible, but in the real world, that just isn’t…
This article is part of a study about the ports of Another World. It is highly recommended to read Another World 101 before reading this.
Yukihiro Matsumoto talks to Evrone about what makes Ruby shine
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