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The Curious Case of Swift's Adoption of Smalltalk Keyword Syntax
I was really surprised to learn that Swift recently adopted Smalltalk keyword syntax: [Accepted] SE-0279: Multiple Trailing Closures . Tha...
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Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981)
The purpose of the Smalltalk project is to provide computer support for the creative spirit in everyone. Our work flows from a vision that includes a creative individual and the best computing hardware available. We have chosen to concentrate on two principle areas of research: a language of description (programming…
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Static Analysis
Nim is in an excellent position to “get married” with static analysis, and it doesn’t have to be based on some intermediate representation but can achieve a solution more similar to Spark.
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Pain Points of Haskell
I would like to preface this article by saying that Haskell is great. I have been using it as my go-to for native applications for several years now. Everything that follows is a product of my love and affection for the language, and a desire to see it succeed. And none of this is intended to disparage the efforts of…
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Collapse OS – Why Forth?
Collapse OS' first incarnation was written in Z80 assembler. One of the first feedbacks I had after it went viral was "why not Forth?". I briefly looked at it and it didn't seem such a great choice at first, so I first dismissed it. Then, I had what alcoholics refer to as a "Moment of clarity".
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Why the developers who use Rust love it so much
Here’s why Rust gets so much love, straight from the Rustaceans themselves.
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The Go Compiler Needs to Be Smarter
One of my favorite languages is the Go language. I love its simplicity. It is popular and useful in a cloud setting. Many popular tools are written in Go, and for good reasons. I gave a talk on Go last year and I was asked for a criticism of Go. I do not mind that … Continue reading The Go compiler needs to be smarter
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Julia as a CLI Calculator
I have been using the Julia REPL as my day-to-day calculator on the command line for more than a year now. I am surprised that I haven’t seen more posts talking about how powerful and extensible the language is for simple numerical calculations and scripting In fact, the Julia REPL is much more than a simple…
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What the Hell Is a Deno?
This weeks hottest new JS runtime.
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The Rise and Fall of Commercial Smalltalk
Relics Gilad Bracha recently posted an article "Bits of History, Words of Advice" that talks about the incredible influence of Smalltalk but bemoans the fact that: ...today Smalltalk is relegated to a small niche of true believers. Whenever two or more Smalltalkers gather over d
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How to write a toy JVM
Exploring JVM specification and trying to write a little code to interpret a Java class like a real JVM.
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ECMAScript 4: The Missing Version
In your build tools, you may have noticed that you have an ECMAScript 3 target, and 5 and up, but never a 4. Why is that?
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The Hard Part of Learning a Language
I want to do $THING. Normally I do my hacking in Python, which is okay but has lots of frustrations. My friends tell me $LANGUAGE is better for doing $THING. After going through the online tutorial, I can see why. Maybe I’ll try $LANGUAGE for this project! Just a few things I need to figure out first: How do I install…
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Deno Is a Browser for Code
Explaining the different mental model Deno has about managing dependant code.
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What's in a Parser Combinator? (2016)
Simplex Sigillum Veri
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The use of `class` for things that should be simple free functions
For those who only read above the fold: I don’t say that all object-orientation is bad! OOP, especially classical polymorphic OOP, has a well-deserved place in real code. I’m going to talk about a very specific antipattern that I see with some frequency: the use of class for things that should be simple free functions.
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REPL Driven Design
If you follow me on facebook you know that I’ve been publishing daily CoronaVirus statistics. I generate these statistics using the daily updates in the Johns Hopkins github repository .
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Why is Idris 2 so much faster than Idris 1?
I've just released a new version of Idris 2 , which is a significant release in that it's the first one which is able to compile itself. Thus, it's the first one where we can really see how the performance of Idris 2 improves on the performance of Idris 1.
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Self Supervised Learning in NLP
An overview of self-supervised pretext tasks in Natural Language Processing
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Guide to Concurrency in Python with Asyncio
A guide to Python's asyncio module covering async/await, event loops, tasks, and when to use asyncio vs threading or multiprocessing.
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Assembly's Perspective of C
If you are living under a rock, quarantined against COVID-19, here’s quite a long, and somewhat technical, post for your consumption. This post will talk about how C and assembly dance together–the tango? waltz? who knows?
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The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (1987)
``Frequently'' means thou shouldst draw thy daily guidance from it, rather than hoping thy code will achieve lint's blessing by a sudden act of repentance at the last minute. De-linting a program which has never been linted before is often a cleaning of the stables such as thou wouldst not wish on thy worst enemies…
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Lovely Week with Elixir
Context It’s not often I get excited about programming languages since meeting Ruby in 2015. Way before that, drowning in misery of writing university course works in Java, has pushed me away from development. Ruby’s freedom and expressiveness was what pulled me back, and its style has kept me in. I was on the lookout…
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Welcome to C# 9.0
Note: This post is out of date. Now that C# 9.0 has been released, an updated version can be found here. C# 9.0 is taking shape, and I’d like to share our thinking on some of the major features we’re adding to this next version of the language. With every new version of C# we […]
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Things I hate about Rust
Five years ago, I wrote a post about the things I hated most about my then (and still) favorite scripting language: Ruby.