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Before we get into this kind of stream-of-consciousness outline, I'd like to note that very topically to this, over at the Spritely Institute (where I'm CTO, did I mention on here yet that I'm the CTO of a nonprofit to improve networked communication on the internet on this blog? because I don't think I did) we…
Easy to follow guide using practical examples
This is a short overview of the development that's gone into "Kandria"(https://kandria.com), the open world action RPG I've been working on in recent years.
When programming, we often need to write 'generic' functions where the exact data type is not important. For example, you might want to write a simple function that sums up numbers. Go lacked this notion until recently, but it was recently added (as of version 1.18). So I took it out for a spin. In … Continue reading…
GitLab CEO and co-founder Sid Sijbrandij makes the case for Ruby on Rails.
When an enthusiastic Ada programmer and a SPARK expert pair up to prove the most "stupid" sorting algorithm, lessons are learned! Join us in this…
Developer Spotlight is a series highlighting interesting Swift developers from around the world. This post is authored by Ron Avitzur, author of the Pacific Tech Graphing Calculator.
The previous release was version 8.2 in December 2019. Since the latest source code is always available on GitHub, many have already picked up later patch versions (there are more than 5000 of them!). Therefore the changes have already been tried out by many users. On top of that bugs have been fixed, security issues…
In my never ending quest to have oksh support every C compiler in existence, I have ported two more C compilers to OpenBSD . They are chibicc and kefir. As always, let's review them and at the end I'll have links to unofficial ports so that you can play around with these C compilers.
My book 'Mastering Nim - A complete guide to the programming language' is now available on Amazon
In this edition of our Haskell in Production series, we interview Fabian Thorand from Channable. Read the article to learn where Channable uses Haskell and why do they like it.
Some of the most creative, wacky explorations of what you can do in TypeScript's type system!
Latest features the newest Python release has to offer, that you should know about - built-in TOML support, better exceptions, and typing improvements.
Yuri Vishnevsky wrote that he no longer recommends Julia. This caused lengthy discussions at Hacker News, Reddit and the Julia forum. Yuri argues that Julia shouldn't be used in any context where corr...
In Python as in other programming languages, this grand principle encourages software architects to escape from Object Orientation and enjoy the simpler practices of Object Based programming instead.
I keep seeing discussions that equate zig's level of memory safety with c (or occasionally with rust!). Neither is particularly accurate. This is an attempt at a more detailed breakdown.
Experimenting transpiling Uber h3 library with ccgo.
V is a programming language promising to be “Simple, fast, safe, compiled. For developing maintainable software.” V has a controversial past but what is the state of V in 2022?
Parenthetically Speaking: Articles by Shriram Krishnamurthi
ECMAScript supports proper tail calls. How come browser don't support it?
A few years ago I've written in some detail about the Y combinator, including implementations in Clojure and Python.
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
A comparison between async Rust's and lunatic's approach to massive concurrency.
Today we’re very excited to announce Pyston-lite, a JIT for Python that is easily installable as an extension module. We’ve taken the core technology of Pyston and repackaged it so that…
