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Rails adds support for Fiber-safe ActiveRecord ConnectionPools
ActiveRecord's ConnectionPool is now fiber-safe! Configure config.active_support.isolation_level for better throughput.
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I wrote the least-C C program I could
As a fun afternoon challenge, I decided to write a C program that looked nothing like C. Not necessarily obfuscated, though there is a competition for that if you are so inclined.
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Why learn Racket? A student's perspective
A few thoughts on why I think you should learn Racket.
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2021 at OCamlPro
OCamlPro was created in 2011 to advocate the adoption of the OCaml language and Formal Methods in general in the industry. 2021 was a very special year as we celebrated our 10th anniversary! While building a team of highly-skilled engineers, we navigated through our expertise domains, programming la...
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Internals of Go's new fuzzing system
Go 1.18 is coming out soon. It's a huge release, but native fuzzing has a special place in my heart. Not much has been written yet on how Go's fuzzing system actually works, so I'll talk a bit about that here.
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Why We Use Julia, 10 Years Later
10 years ago today, we published 'Why we Created Julia' ...
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Sustainability with Rust
Rust is a programming language implemented as a set of open source projects. It combines the performance and resource efficiency of systems programming languages like C with the memory safety of languages like Java. Rust started in 2006 as a personal project of Graydon Hoare before becoming a research project at…
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A new programming language for high-performance computers
Researchers at MIT CSAIL developed a new programming language specifically for high-performance computing. With the prototype, says PhD student Amanda Liu, “speed and correctness do not have to compete ... they can go together, hand-in-hand.”
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Racket 8.4
_posted by John Clements_ Racket version 8.4 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org. Command-line Racket provides a new expression editor by default for its read-eval-print loop (REPL). The new REPL is based on the Chez Scheme expr...
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Some mistakes Rust doesn't catch
I still get excited about programming languages. But these days, it’s not so much because of what they let me do, but rather what they don’t let me do. Ultimately, what you can with a programming l...
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What I'd like to see in Go 2.0
Go is one of my favorite programming languages, but it is still far from perfect.
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Optimizing GoAWK with a bytecode compiler and virtual machine
How I sped up GoAWK by switching from a tree-walking interpreter to a bytecode compiler and virtual machine interpreter.
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AdaCore and Ferrous Systems Joining Forces to Support Rust
AdaCore is the leading provider of commercial software solutions for Ada, C and C++ — helping developers build safe and secure software that matters.
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An introduction to type programming in TypeScript
The official site of Zhenghao He, a software engineer and a TypeScript/JavaScript enthusiast.
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SBCL: New in Version 2.2.1
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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Uninitialized memory: Unsafe Rust is too hard
Why unsafe Rust is a complex and user unfriendly experience.
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Async Rust: Panics vs. Cancellation
One of the things people often complain about when doing Async Rust is cancellation. This has always been a bit confusing to me, because it seems to me that async cancellation should feel a lot like panics in practice, and people don’t complain about panics very often (though they do sometimes). This post is the start…
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Why can't you reverse a string with a flag emoji?
davidamos.dev is your first and best source for information about davidamos. Here you will also find topics relating to issues of general interest. We hope you find what you are looking for!
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Worst practices are viral for the wrong reasons (2014)
Perverse incentives surrounding best practices
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What's new in Ruby 3.1?
Nithin Bekal's blog about programming - Ruby, Rails, Vim, Elixir.
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Julia Macros for Beginners
Macros are a powerful and interesting feature of the Julia programming language, but they can also be confusing. Users coming from Python, Matlab or R have not come in contact with similar constructs before, and they require a different way of thinking about code. This article is supposed to be a simple introduction…
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Const all the things?
Last week someone posted a /r/cpp thread titled “Declaring all variables local to a function as const”: Ok, so I’m an old-school C++ programmer using the language now since the early ’90s. I’m a fan of const-correctness for function and member declarations, parameters, and the like. Where, I believe, it actually…