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New GitHub Organization for the Swift Project
Today, we are announcing an exciting development for the Swift programming language: its migration to a dedicated GitHub organization at GitHub.com/swiftlang.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 327 posts.
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Forsp: A Forth+Lisp Hybrid Lambda Calculus Language
Recently I've discovered a very interesting language / realization of the Lambda Calculus. I was unable to find any other language like it, which I find quite surprising. In hindsight, the language seems obvious and natural. And the language keeps surprising me. I say "discovered" in the same sense that Paul Graham…
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Let rand = main as usize (2022)
The other day I posted something silly, and learned some interesting things about raw pointers in Rust.
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An Overview of the Starlark Language
Laurent Le Brun's blog
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Ruby's Timeout is dangerous and Thread.raise is terrifying (2015)
Why Ruby’s Timeout is dangerous (and Thread.raise is terrifying)
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Monads are like burritos (2009)
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Lisp: Icing or Cake?
The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024 ended one week ago. 48 games were submitted, a new record for the jam! This past week has been a time for participants to play and rate each other’s games. As I explored the entries, I noticed two distinct meta-patterns in how people approached building games with Lisp. I think these…
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Go: Sentinel errors and errors.Is() slow your code down by 3000%
An exhaustive set of benchmarks on different ways to approach error handling in Golang. We demonstrate that common sentinel error idioms are slow your code down by 5x.
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What I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code
Lead programmer talks Lua’s flexibility, challenges, and integration with Defold game engine after 60k lines of code in Craftomation 101.
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I added some optimizations to my compiler that turns Lisp into JavaScript
Smaller programs that do less work.
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PyPy has been working for me for several years now
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Bootstrapping a Forth in 40 lines of Lua code
Author: Eduardo Ochs eduardoochs@gmail.com https://anggtwu.net/ https://www.lua.org/gems/ https://www.lua.org/gems/selected.html Version: 2008feb17 Listings: http://anggtwu.net/miniforth/miniforth5.lua http://anggtwu.net/miniforth/miniforth5.out Preprint version: https://anggtwu.net/miniforth/miniforth-article.pdf
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Generalizing Support for Functional OOP in R
R has built-in support for two functional Object Oriented Programming (OOP) systems: S3 and S4, corresponding to the third and fourth version of the S language, respectively. The two systems are largely compatible; however, they are two fundamentally distinct systems, two systems for a user to understand, two systems…
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Gleam 1.2.0 release – Fault tolerant Gleam
News post: Gleam v1.2.0 released
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A simple core.async job system in Clojure
In my off time (and my on time, for that matter) I've been working on this quirky thing I've called Scinamalink (sounds like 'skinamarink'). Scinamalink lets customers send Magic login links to their users with a single REST API call. If you don't know what a magic
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Recursion, continuations and trampolines (2017)
How is tail recursion different from regular recursion? What do continuations have to do with this, what is CPS, and how do trampolines help? This article provides an introduction, with code samples in Python and Clojure.
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Why not just do simple C++ RAII in C?
Ever since I finished publishing the “defer” paper and successfully defended it on its first go-around (it now has tentative approval to go to a Technical Specification, I just need to obtain the necessary written boilerplate to do so), an old criticism
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Erlang/OTP 27 Highlights
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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Compilers for free with weval
With some partial evaluation and specialization hints, it is possible to get pretty decent speedups on interpreters by turning them into compilers.
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Swift Tooling: Windows Edition
Productivity on every platform - a deep dive on the ways we're writing Swift code on Windows, and improving the developer experience along the way.
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How to read C type declarations (2003)
Even relatively new C programmers have no trouble reading simple C declarations such as
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Smart Pointers in (GNU) C
I am a big fan of C, but some part of me always yearn to have just enough higher level constructs.
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The evolution of a Scheme programmer (2020)
For a real-life implementation, see how Racket's math/number-theory does it here .
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Viking 7B: open LLM for the Nordic languages trained on AMD GPUs
Silo AI is announcing the release of the first open LLM for the Nordic languages
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Aggregating all cinema showtimes in Germany with Clojure
How I build a website for choosing movies
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Štar: an iteration construct for Common Lisp
Štar is a concise and extensible iteration construct for Common Lisp which aims to be pleasant to use, easy to understand, fast if needed, general, and not to look like Fortran....