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The Rust programming language belongs to the category of modern programming languages that aim to provide a reliable and safe alternative to C and C++. In the past few years, few people have been working on getting the compiler, and the other build …
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With the external release of OCaml 4.07.0 imminent, we in Jane Street’s Tools & Compilers group have been planning what we want to work on for inclusion ...
Hello, friends! Long time no blog!I'm still here hacking away on JRuby for the benefit of Rubyists everywhere, usually slogging through compatibility fixes and new Ruby features. However with the release of JRuby 9.2, we've caught up to Ruby 2.5 (the current release) and I'm spending a little time on performance.I…
Haskell’s State monad has a shameful secret. It’s not a monad [ State monads don’t respect the monad laws in Haskell, Simon Marlow ] . Look:
A pointer references a location in memory and dereferencing a pointer refers to the lookup of the value of the memory location the pointer references. The value of a pointer is a memory address. The C standard does not define the representation of a memory address. This is crucial since not every architecture makes…
A couple weeks ago, Galois and Immunant launched c2rust. Since I wrote one of the best-known C-to-Rust translation tools (Corrode), and since I worked for Ga...
Crystal 0.25.1 has been released!
Minor nit: printing the predecessors of a basic block is a feature of the IL printer, not Clang. It is just visualizing information that is implicit in the IR anyway.
The concept of contravariance, contravariant functors, and the Contravariant typeclass defined in the ‘contravariance’ Haskell library.
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
Traits Deep Dive, Part 2
Go is a simple and fun language, but, like any other language, it has a few gotchas... Many of those gotchas are not entirely Go's fault. Some of these mistakes are natural traps if you are coming from another language....
A high-performance and high-level purely functional data-parallel array programming language that can execute on the GPU and CPU.
This is a proposal for creating a way to assign to variables within an expression using the notation NAME := expr.
Crystal 0.25.0 has been released!
Python's GIL explained in Python code
Nim is a relatively new programming language which allows users to write easy-to-read high-performance code. But if you are reading this Nim tutorial, the chances are that you already know about Nim.
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During my life as a software engineer there only have been a few occasions where the design and principles of a language struck me as inherently beautiful and consequently inspired me to work with them.
In the past year I’ve written a number of minimalist C libraries, particularly header libraries. The distinction for “minimalist” is, of course, completely arbitrary and subjective. My definition in this context isn’t about the library’s functionality being stupidly trivial or even necessarily simple. I’m talking…
