2011
New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,636 posts.
2012
Crystal 1.0 – What to expect
The release of the first major release of Crystal arrives after many years of hard work. With thousands of contributions from people worldwide, it was finally possible to find consensus for what truly mattered for 1.0 and what could wait for future releases. Getting here wasn’t an easy journey, filled with enriching…
2013
The ecosystem of the Go programming language
Go is one of the most prominent general-purpose programming languages nowadays. Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Adobe, to name a few, have been using the language extensively. It’s the language of choice behind multiple cloud computing projects such as Kubernetes, and it’s steadily expanding towards numerous…
2014
Scala projects are difficult to maintain
Scala is a powerful programming language that can make certain small teams hyper-productive.
2015
A working D compiler on OpenBSD
I got GDC , the GNU D Compiler, working on OpenBSD . Supporting D has been a very long time coming. Here's the story of how we got here and where we need to go next.
2016
A few notes on message passing
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
2017
2018
Interfaces and Protocols in Python
Comparing zope.interface and typing.Protocol.
2019
The Modern Java Platform – 2021 Edition
Many developers were burned by the overly complex world of Java back in the early 2000s. The Gang of Four patterns and middleware / J2EE / Java EE led to…
2020
An Object-Oriented Language for the '20s
Object-oriented programming is out of fashion now, and it has been for a while. Rarely are new programming languages intentionally object-oriented. And there are good reasons for this: OO often requir…
2021
Resurrecting Fortran
We have finished the first chapter on a long journey of resurrecting Fortran: forming an initial core community of developers and users with enough momentum around the new Fortran website and projects at fortran-lang.org . There is still have a long way to go to, but this was a necessary (although not sufficient)…
2022
2023
Patten Matching in Nim
Nim fusion and pattern matching
2024
netaddr.IP: a new IP address type for Go
The Go standard library’s net.IP type is problematic for a number of reasons. We wrote a new one.
2025
Zig, parser combinators, and why they're awesome
In this article we will be exploring what parser combinators are, what runtime parser generation is - why they're useful, and then walking through a Zig implementation of them.
2026
Why asynchronous Rust doesn't work
This is old! When I wrote it, I was a very different person.As it turns out, growing up a bit made me care a lot less about the nuances of Rust programming.
2027
2028
Why I rewrote my Rust keyboard firmware in Zig: consistency, mastery, and fun
I’ve spent the last year building keyboards , which has included writing firmware for a variety custom circuit boards.
2029
Standard Ruby 1.0
Say hello to Standard Ruby 1.0! Effortless linting and code formatting for Ruby, built on RuboCop. Zero configuration, total convenience.
2030
Don’t blindly prefer emplace_back to push_back
In one of my recent training courses, a student informed me that both clang-tidy and PVS-Studio were complaining about some code of the form
2031
How the AWS team will contribute to Rust’s success
Since the start of the year, the AWS Rust team has been drafting our charter and tenets. Charters and tenets are the framework AWS teams use to define our scope and priorities. The charter tells you what the team does, and the tenets tell you how the team will do it. Since one of our […]
2032
2033
Giving Ada a Chance
ajxs personal site
2034
Why Learn Haskell? (2018)
Asking a "why?" question means we want to be told a reason. But would we accept any reason? It seems not, for if any answer suffices, then the answer is irrelevant, so why bother asking?
2035
Get a Life
When I was a kid, I wrote a BASIC program to explore Conway’s Game of Life on my 8088. It was painfully slow, so I began an assembly rewrite. But I failed at Life: I abandoned the project in frustration because I kept freezing up my system.
2036
2037
PureScript and Haskell
Two years ago, I starting learning PureScript. I had been intrigued by purely functional programming for some time but had failed to learn Haskell once or twice. PureScript seemed to be a kinder, gentler introduction to this world while retaining the fundamental properties of pureness that made Haskell intriguing to…
2038
Intercal, YAML, and Other Horrible Programming Languages
Discover the bizarre world of INTERCAL, a parody programming language that will leave you scratching your head. Then, delve into the blurred line b...
2039
Erlang/OTP 24 Release Candidate 1
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
2040
How We Test Concurrent Primitives in Kotlin Coroutines
Today we would like to share how we test concurrency primitives in Kotlin Coroutines. Many of our users are delighted with the experience of using coroutines to write asynchronous code. This does not