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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,636 posts.
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What’s the Role of Developer Experience in Programming Languages Research?
Programming languages papers often talk about usability advantages, but the evaluation sections of these papers tend to focus on performance or semantic guarantees. What if we applied methods from …
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Why Typing Erlang is Hard: Standard Erlang
Leo Ostera — making computers do things
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Perl One-Liners Cookbook
Example based guide for text processing with Perl from the command line
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Why Dark didn't choose Rust
Welcome again HN! Dark [https://darklang.com] is a programming language, structured editor, and infrastructure—all in one—whose goal is to make it 100x easier to build backend services. Check out the website [https://darklang.com/], our What is Dark [https://blog.darklang.com/what-is-dark/] post, and
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A First Look at the JIT
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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Three Months of Go from a Haskeller’s perspective (2016)
This summer I’ve been interning at Pusher , and have been writing a lot of Go. It’s been a bit of a change coming from a Haskell background, so I decided to write up my thoughts now, at the end.
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Programming R at native speed using Haskell (2015)
Software Innovation Lab
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Dark’s new backend will be in F#
Welcome HN! Dark is a programming language, structured editor, and infrastructure—all in one—whose goal is to make it 100x easier to build backend services. Check out the website, our What is Dark post, and How Dark deploys in 50ms for more. Thanks for checking us out! Part of
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Leaving OCaml
Part of a 3 part series. Followups on F#, Rust I built the first demo of Dark in Python, in about two weeks. A few months later when I started productizing it, I rebuilt it in OCaml. Back in 2017, when I was considering the language and platform to use
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Names are not type safety
Haskell programmers spend a lot of time talking about type safety . The Haskell school of program construction advocates “capturing invariants in the type system” and “making illegal states unrepresentable,” both of which sound like compelling goals, but are rather vague on the techniques used to achieve them. Almost…
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Why I Prefer Functional Programming
Why I'm long on functional programming
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Ruby on Rails in a week
I had 7 days to learn Ruby on Rails. I often think about approaches to learning, and it was time to put my ideas into practice.
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Pyston v2: Faster Python
We’re very excited to release Pyston v2, a faster and highly compatible implementation of the Python programming language. Version 2 is 20% faster than stock Python 3.8 on our macrobenchmarks…
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Ruby's Proposed STM
There’s a proposal to add Software Transactional Memory , or STM , to the Ruby programming language. This is part of a wider effort to add better support for concurrency and parallelism in Ruby, and in particular the idea of ractors . A concept has been proposed and implemented by Koichi Sasada.
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Why I'm Tcl-Ish
Colin Macleod Dundee Barnet Greece Tcl C++ Bloomberg Alcatel Intrasoft Autism
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An Intuition for Lisp Syntax
Every lisp hacker I ever met, myself included, thought that all those brackets in Lisp were off-putting and weird. At first, of course. Soon after we all came to the same epiphany: lisp’s power lies in those brackets ! In this essay, we’ll go on a journey to that epiphany.
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Admitting That Functional Programming Can Be Awkward (2007)
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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Language Design with Leo White
Listen in on Jane Street’s Ron Minsky as he has conversations with engineers working on everything from clock synchronization to reliable multicast, build systems to reconfigurable hardware. Get a peek at how Jane Street approaches problems, and how those ideas relate to tech more broadly.
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Better Than JSON?
You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites . This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.
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Node.js 15.0
This blog was written by Bethany Griggs, with additional contributions from the Node.js Technical Steering Committee.
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Fighting Rust's Expressive Type System
Herein I share an experienced developer's first foray into a real-world Rust project. It focuses closely on the type system, and the key insights I needed to begin "thinking in Rust". Written for those getting to grips with the language, it will be especially useful if your background isn't functional programming.
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PHP 8: Before and After
The impact of PHP 8 on my code
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First AI model that translates 100 languages without relying on English
Facebook AI is introducing M2M-100, the first multilingual machine translation model that can translate between any pair of 100 languages without relying on English data.
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Just Write the Parser
Tiark Rompf is an Associate Professor at Purdue University. Notes and blog posts on programming, research, CS, software systems.
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PEP 635 – Structural Pattern Matching: Motivation and Rationale
This PEP provides the motivation and rationale for PEP 634 (“Structural Pattern Matching: Specification”). First-time readers are encouraged to start with PEP 636, which provides a gentler introduction to the concepts, syntax and semantics of patterns.
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A brief introduction to BEAM
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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PEP 634 – Structural Pattern Matching: Specification
This PEP provides the technical specification for the match statement. It replaces PEP 622, which is hereby split in three parts: