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Rust should be improved to provide the necessary building blocks that are needed to write cryptography code that is free from timing side channels and similar hazards. These facilities should not be restricted to code within Rust -provided or -endorsed libraries; anybody should be able to use them to publish a crate…
For almost a complete decade—starting with discovering Haskell in about 2009 and right up until switching to a job where I used primarily...
SeamlessM4T allows people to communicate effortlessly through speech and text across different languages.
Arrays are unique objects inside the JVM, and understanding their structure makes for better coding.
What helps a programming language gain traction? Patrick Martin remembers why he used to use Delphi.
This article shows the obscure but useful capabilities of Hash, a simple but equally powerful data structure in Ruby.
Historical reference to Ian Denhardt’s A Critique of the Cap'n Proto Schema Language (2019-06-25), with archive and current documentation links.
The first announcement of MoonBit
The reaction to John Cowan’s resignation as chair of the R 7 RS Large working group has been somewhat wider than I think anyone expected, making it onto general interest programming forums. Scheme may be a small island, but when it has an earthquake, it makes waves through the whole archipelago of programming…
Slides and videos explaining a functional approach to error handling
There are two main historical trends when choosing an implementation language for something compiler-shaped.
Pattern matching and exhaustive switches come together to enable functional style data models that blend seamlessly with Dart’s…
This release is the Reference Implementation of version 21 of the Java SE Platform, as specified by JSR 396 in the Java Community Process.
Go 1.21 expands Go's commitment to backward compatibility, so that every new Go toolchain is the best possible implementation of older toolchain semantics as well.
A detailed explanation of why Elixir uses a dot when invoking anonymous functions
I’ve been leading a team developing an application using Elixir, Phoenix and LiveView for the last 18 months and accumulated some thoughts on the stack. For the most part, it has been a very pleasant experience.
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. Robin Williams
Now that Java 21 is features complete (Rampdown Phase Two at the day of writing), it’s time to walk through all the functionalities that bring to us, developers, this new version. This article is part of a series on what’s new on the last versions of Java, for those who wants to read the others,
People in the programming language design community strive to make their languages more expressive, with a strong type system, mainly to increase ergonomics by avoiding code duplication in final software; however, the more expressive their languages become, the more abruptly duplication penetrates the language itself.
Iterators in Go are a neat way to write “lazy loops”, where we never generate more results than we actually use. Let’s see what that would look like in Go programs, and what new facilities it gives us in the standard library.
By Gremlins, For Gremlins™
Where C# is the most dominant language in the .NET world, other languages are built on top of the Framework that deserves their respective place. F# is strong when it comes down to functional programming! In this blog post, we will leverage the power of F# and C# to showcase where both excel!
The question of which language suits best for compiler development is a frequent one amongst language enthusiasts (e.g., see discussions here , here , and here ). Sadly, most of the commenters either 1) just answer with their language of choice without any explanation, or 2) provide a vague explanation without any…
Tech team thanks Rich Hickey for leadership as he retires from his position at Nu.
Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust , optimal , and reusable software.
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I semi-regularly hear developers who claim that using Rust would not gain them anything because they would have to use `unsafe`. But this is not true. Local reasoning matters.
