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C will never stop you from making mistakes
Short answer: because we said so.
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JuliaCon2020: Julia Is Production Ready
Introduction
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First Impressions of Rust
I've been wanting to write a big project in Rust for a while as a learning exercise, and actually started one in late 2018 (a FUSE server implementation). But then life happened and I got busy and never went anywhere with it. Due to certain world circumstances I'm currently spending a lot of time indoors so rust-fuse…
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How to speed up the Rust compiler some more in 2020
I last wrote in April about my work on speeding up the Rust compiler. Time for another update.
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Syntax changes from C++11 to C++20
Let’s start the week with Lambda Expressions. The plan is to have a set of concise articles presenting core elements of lambda expressions. Today you can see how the syntax has evolved starting since C++11 and what are the latest changes in C++20. The Series This blog post is a part of the series on lambdas:
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A gentle intro to assembly with Rust
One of the things I’ve wanted to do for a while is really dig into assembly and get into the weeds of how programs actually run. A rework of the asm macro has recently landed in nightly rust so it seemed like a good time.
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Julia 1.5 Highlights
Julia version 1.5 has been released, featuring many performance improvements and new capabilities.
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Racket 7.8
Racket version 7.8 is now available from https://racket-lang.org/ Racket CS may become the default Racket implementation in the next release. With the improvements in this release, Racket CS provides all of the functionality of Racket BC (the curre...
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A philosophical difference between Haskell and Lisp (2015)
UPDATE 2020-08-03 : I no longer stand by the content in this post. I think the overall sentiment is marginally accurate; however, the details in the post are incorrect (as many have pointed out over the years).
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Perl7 is a fork of values
Before reading this, you should watch this video where Bryan Cantrill explains a value-conflict between Joyent and Node.js, I believe we have a similar problem.
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RBS, Ruby’s new type signature language
Introducing RBS, Ruby’s new type signature language
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Cloudflare Workers Announces Broad Language Support
Today, we’re excited to announce support for Python, Scala, Kotlin, Reason and Dart. You can build applications on Cloudflare Workers using your favorite language starting today.
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Named arguments are coming in PHP 8
A close look at named parameters in PHP 8
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Everything you need (and don't need) to know about PHP's type system
This is the absolute best guide you'll find in the internet about how php handles typing internally and in userland.
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Deep learning to translate between programming languages
TransCoder is the first self-supervised neural transcompiler system for migrating code between programming languages. It can translate code from Python to C++, for example, and it outperforms rule-based translation programs.
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An exploration of why Python doesn't require a 'main' function
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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The Many Faces of an Undying Programming Language
This is a post I've been meaning to write for a while now: one anecdotally comparing programming languages in the Lisp family. I consider myself to be a Lisp hacker. Perhaps that much was obvious from the letter λ adorning my website's header, a reference to the λ-calculus which inspired John McCarthy to design the…
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Clear explanation of Rust’s module system
Easy to understand explanation using visual aids and practical examples
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Typed Lisp, a Primer (2019)
Exploring Lisp's fine-grained type hierarchy.
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Turning the IDE Inside Out with Datalog
Introspectable and extensible IDEs with logic programming
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Shipping Const Generics in 2020
It’s hard to believe that its been more than 3 years since I opened RFC 2000 , which defined the const generics for Rust. At the same time, reading the RFC thread, there’s also been a huge amount of change in this area: for one thing, at the time the RFC was written, const fns weren’t stable, and consts weren’t even…