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Java’s Cultural Problem
Java is good by modern standards, from a technical perspective, the platform having received a lot of improvements from Java 8 to 17. Unfortunately, it still stinks, and the problem is its “enterprise” culture.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,635 posts.
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Metaprogramming in Python
How you can use metaprogramming in Python and how it can simplify certain tasks.
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Scala isn't fun anymore
I’ve just spent over a day, going to sleep at 1:00 am, to upgrade dependencies and fix eviction warnings in the build of a Scala project.
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Planning Go 1.20 cryptography work
My plans for Go 1.20 include landing the crypto/ecdh package, making progress on moving math/big out of the security perimeter, and a batch of crypto/tls work.
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A Review of the Odin Programming Language
A review of the Odin programming language # Written by Dale Weiler Twitter GitHub Last updated Tuesday, September 10th, 2022 What is Odin # For those unfamiliar, Odin is a systems programming language that is more conservative in its design than other newer programming languages such as Rust, Zig, and Carbon. The…
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Why we write elementary apps in Vala (2014)
A tremendously effective tool for our needs
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Not Your Grandfather’s Perl
That Perl interpreter you have on your Linux machine? Update it and check out the present.
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Zig, the Small Language
Zig programming language is new, but it's getting a well deserved attention. Can it be a good fit for small-and-simple programming tasks?
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Revisiting the design approach to Zig
Zig is a general-purpose programming language that can act as a drop-in replacement for C / C++, letting you incrementally improve your code base.
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Unreal Rust
A few months ago I asked myself "What if I could write a game in Rust, but use Unreal as a renderer?". After a bit of thinking I came to the conclusion that exposing the Unreal renderer to Rust via C ffi was way more work than I was willing to do. But what if I could just build on top of Unreal instead? I could just…
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DockYard R&D: FireFly Optimizes Your Elixir Compilation
Firefly is an alternative compiler to BEAM, introducing new levels of efficiency and speed for compiling Elixir applications.
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SBCL 2.2.8
New SBCL versions are usually released at the end of each month: check the Sourceforge File List to see the current version. The new features of all SBCL releases are listed below.
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Packed structs in Zig make bit/flag sets trivial
As we've been building Mach engine, we've been using a neat little pattern in Zig that enables writing flag sets more nicely in Zig than in other languages. Here's a brief explainer.
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OCaml at First Glance
You never get a second chance to make a first impression.
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I like Odin
As someone who is interested in systems programming, and has experience working with Go, but not with C or C++1, The Odin language is a great fit. Proper systems language Odin is a systems langauge…
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Depending in Common Lisp
A while ago I was working on a Common Lisp library that makes use of the Metaobject Protocol . I ran into a few edge cases around dependencies between classes and it took a while for me to figure out how to solve them, so I wanted to write down what I learned in case anyone else might find it useful. This post is an…
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The Futures of Inform
This is a talk and slides from Narrascope 2022, held online in July 2022. It completes a trilogy — I also spoke at Narrascope I and Narrascope II. I’m grateful to the IFTF, and particularly to Judith Pintar and Andrew Plotkin, for arranging the opportunity.
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We used Elixir's Observer to hunt down bottlenecks
Learn how to use Elixir's Observer to chase down bottlenecks and fix runtime issues.
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Uncommon Uses of Python in Commonly Used Libraries
Some off-the-beaten uses of Python learned from reading libraries.
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Millet, a Language Server for SML
A language server for Standard ML.
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Julia 1.8
Highlights of the Julia 1.8 release.
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How I learned to stop worrying and love macros
“A Modest Proposal For Preventing The Children of Rust Developers From Being Exposed To Procedural Macros”
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Learning a new language, or how I gained familiarity with Go
How I've eased into a new language, Go, as a Senior Software Engineer, and some initial thoughts on the language.
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Will Bun JavaScript Take Node's Crown
Bun is the newest and fastest all-in-one JavaScript framework. Will it take over Node? Is it better than Deno? Let's do some testing.
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Rob Pike's simple C regex matcher in Go
Translating Rob Pike's simple and elegant C regex matcher to Go.
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Faster Ruby: Thoughts from the outside
(This is Part II of the Faster Ruby posts, which started with a retrospective on Ruby+OMR, a Ruby JIT compiler I worked on five years ago )
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How to choose the right Python concurrency API
In this tutorial, you will discover a helpful step-by-step procedure and helpful questions to guide you to the most appropriate concurrency API.