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The Closure Compiler was originally released, in Java, back in 2009 . Today, we're announcing the very same Closure Compiler is now available in pure JavaScript , for use without Java. It's designed to run under NodeJS with support for some popular build tools.
The classic ed editor is a really good example of a sparse, minimal, standard Unix tool that does one thing, and does it well. Because there are so many good screen-oriented editors for Unix, there’s seldom very much call for using ed , unless you’re working on very old or very limited hardware that won’t run anything…
A tutorial on how to write a Unix shell in C.
As a project evolves, does the new code just add on top of the old code? Or does it replace the old code slowly over time? In order to understand this, I built a little thing to analyze Git projects, with help from the formidable GitPython project.
[Edit: Welcome Hacker News readers! Before we dive into the neat memory management esoterica, I want to briefly note that as engineers we have an ethical obligation in our work to consider the "safety, health, and welfare of the public" , because if we don't, terrible things happen . This is a challenging…
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James Fisher has a blog post on a case where GHC's runtime system imposed unpleasant latencies on their Haskell program: Low latency, large working set, and GHC's garbage collector: pick two of three The blog post proposes a very simple, synthetic benc...
Welcome to the brand new tutorial series - “Design and Implementation of a Win32 Text Editor!” The purpose of these tutorials is to follow the development of a …
This afternoon I spent some time with the free trial of the Hopper Disassembler looking through the binary of Sublime Text 3. I found some interesting things and some undocumented settings.
Let me start this article with a confession: I suck at writing parallel code. I have only a vague idea about mutexes, locks and other low level primitives for handling data between threads. And since I work mostly with Python, I tend to use multiprocessing (if I bother to parallelize at all) rather than threads…
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Few weeks ago a bug was filed against Dart SDK citing "very low performance of String.substring " . Here is a core of microbenchmark developer submitted together with the issue:
bookdown extends R Markdown for writing books with cross-references, citations, and multiple output formats.
Overview Symlinks, or symbolic links, are “virtual” files or folders which reference a physical file or folder located elsewhere, and are an important feature built in to many operating systems, including Linux and Windows. The Windows’ NTFS file system has supported symlinks since Windows Vista. However, it hasn’t…
The Rust compiler is written in Rust. This is overall a pretty common practice in compiler development. This usually means that the process of …
URLs have been used for decades now and you'd would think they would have consistent behavior…
Go should add the ability to create alternate equivalent names for types, in order to enable gradual code repair during codebase refactoring. This article explains the need for that ability and the implications of not having it for today’s large Go codebases. This article also examines some potential solutions…
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
