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Be careful with Go struct embedding
The gophers nested too greedily and too deep.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 375 posts.
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Is Zig's new writer unsafe?
Karl Seguin's Blog - A mix of coding and creative writing
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In Defense of C++
Why C++ remains a powerful and relevant programming language in today's tech landscape.
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Public static void main(String[] args) is dead
Holy fucking shit did this suck 1 . There is a comments section below. Give your eulogy for that piece of shit sorcerous incantation there or wherever else.
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The Ruliology of Lambdas
Stephen Wolfram explains the rich ruliology of lambdas, made particularly significant by their connection to practical computing. Covers basic computations to undecidability to multiway graphs and evaluation strategies.
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What's New in C# 14: Null-Conditional Assignments
C# 14 adds null-conditional assignment, a feature that safely assigns values to properties or indexers without long chains of if statements.
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Safe C++ proposal is not being continued
One year ago, the Safe C++ proposal was made. The goal was to add a safe subset/context into C++ that would give strong guarantees (memory safety, type safety, …
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My first impressions of Gleam
What I’ve learned in my first few hours using Gleam for a small project.
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UTF-8 is a brilliant design
Exploring the brilliant design of UTF-8 encoding system that represents millions of characters while being backward compatible with ASCII
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Death to type classes
Death (XIII) Symbolizes significant change, transformation, and endings, rather than literal physical death. Have you ever seen a Number grazing in the f
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A new experimental Go API for JSON
Go 1.25 introduces experimental support for encoding/json/jsontext and encoding/json/v2 packages.
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The Expression Problem and its solutions (2016)
The craft of programming is almost universally concerned with different types of data and operations/algorithms that act on this data [1] . Therefore, it's hardly surprising that designing abstractions for data types and operations has been on the mind of software engineers and programming-language designers since…
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ML needs a new programming language – Interview with Chris Lattner
Listen in on Jane Street’s Ron Minsky as he has conversations with engineers working on everything from clock synchronization to reliable multicast, build systems to reconfigurable hardware. Get a peek at how Jane Street approaches problems, and how those ideas relate to tech more broadly.
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Contracts for C
C++ seems to finally converge with their contracts proposal, I decided to give it a try and come up with ideas how such a thing would look for C. This is in early stages, not a full proposal yet, a…
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Introduction to Ada: a project-based exploration with rosettas
Discover Ada through a fun, project-based tutorial! Learn the language’s clarity, safety, and modern features while building an SVG rosetta generator. A…
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Python has had async for 10 years – why isn't it more popular?
A deep-dive into the challenges and misconceptions surrounding async programming in Python
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What to do with C++ modules?
Note: Everything that follows is purely my personal opinion as an individual. It should not be seen as any sort of policy of the Meson buil...
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Quirks of Common Lisp Types
Humans have a tendency toward binary thinking (pardon the pun). If it's not A, it's B. Perhaps because Lisps have REPLs, they are often thought of from the outside as being dynamic, interpreted languages. Our years of Python have taught us that such languages don't really have strong typing - it's all a wild guess…
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A review of Nim 2: The good and bad with example code
I've been using Nim for about 1-2 years now, and I believe the language is undervalued. It's not perfect, of course, but it's pleasant to write and read. My personal website uses Nim .
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Unexpected productivity boost of Rust
Rust is known for having a steep learning curve, but in this post we will be looking at another curve, the one showing developer productivity in relation to the project size.
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Implementing Forth in Go and C
I first ran into Forth about 20 years ago when reading a book about designing embedded hardware . The reason I got the book back then was to actually learn more about the HW aspects, so having skimmed the Forth chapter I just registered an "oh, this is neat" mental note and moved on with my life. Over the last two…
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Dynamically patch a Python function's source code at runtime
written by Eric J. Ma on 2025-08-23 | tags: python runtime llm security namespace compilation execution functions toolbot monkeypatching
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I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface
Karl Seguin's Blog - A mix of coding and creative writing
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Go is still not good
Previous posts Why Go is not my favourite language and Go programs are not portable have me critiquing Go for over a decade.
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The Core of Rust
within Rust is a smaller language struggling to get out
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Zig 0.15.1
Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust , optimal , and reusable software.
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The forgotten meaning of "jerk"
Ben Lindbergh at the Ringer asks “When did jerk stop meaning ‘stupid’?” He starts with the Steve Martin movie The Jerk , saying of its protagonist:
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Why we still build with Ruby
Why we still choose Ruby on Rails in 2025: Learn how Lago scales millions of API events with Rails, Go, and Rust, balancing developer speed, concurrency, and performance.
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