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In the last few months, I have learned a lot about modern JavaScript and CSS development with a local toolchain powered by Node 8, Webpack 4, and Babel 7. As part of that, I am doing my second “re-introduction to JavaScript”. I first learned JS in 1998. Then relearned it…
I’ve programmed systems in many different languages; from assembler to Java. I’ve written programs in binary machine language. I’ve written applications in Fortran, COBOL, PL/1, C, Pascal, C++, Java, Lua, Smalltalk, Logo, and dozens of other languages. I’ve used statically typed languages, with lots of type inference…
Pancakes and computers
I’m about to accept a PR that will increase druid’s compile time about 3x and its executable size almost 2x. In this case, I think the tradeoff is worth it (without localization, a GUI toolkit is strictly a toy), but the bloat makes me unhappy and I think there is room for improvement in the Rust ecosystem.
A quick guide on how to get started with LISP development in 2019. TLDR: install <a href="https://github.com/roswell/roswell">roswell</a>.
J 1 is a concise, interpreted array programming language which looks infamously like line noise. It is the successor to APL , which is a concise, interpreted array programming language which looks infamously like hieroglyphics.
Comparing a simple neural network in Rust and Python
Elixir-learning article: Effortless Elixir releases and deployment (tagged: Deployment, Releases, Phoenix, Render)
A Rust library for easy and understandable async programming
Are dependent types the future of software development? Read more about our work on Dependent Haskell in this blog post.
How do you condense a 30 minute talk in 5 minutes? Should you even try? These are the questions I struggled with when someone nudged me to register for the lightning talks. My talk was 30 minute long because I was to jump in if a last-minute incident would prevent someone to get on stage. Call me the backup speaker…
It's been a very long time since the last post. So there have come up questions about the Erlang Rationale. I wrote this over 10 years ag...
Let's take a quick look at what compile-time execution looks like in Zig.
The next several chapters will be describing the basic data structures that every programming language provides, their usage, and the most i...
I have written this post for developers in the Common Lisp community who asked why I am switching to Julia. It may only be relevant for the small set of people who use Common Lisp for scientific computing.
PHP 7.4 adds typed properties to classes
Data is being gathered and created at rates unprecedented in history. Much of this data is intended to drive business outcomes but, according to the Harvard Business Review, “…on average, less than half of an organization’s structured data is actively used in making decisions…” The root of the problem is that data is…
The introductory post for this book, unexpectedly, received quite a lot of attention, which is nice since it prompted some questions, and on...
Why should we add generics to Go, and what might they look like?
A tiny, strict, impure, curried, dynamically typed (although that may change), partially applied language with rather peculiar syntax.
Now that the Cologne meeting is over and we’ve more or less finalized (at least before the NB comments come in) C++20, I wanted to take the time to describe in detail one of the new language features we can look forward to. The feature is typically referred to as operator<=> (defined in the language as “three-way…
Hello everyone. We are pleased to announce the availability of the new PyPy for AArch64. This port brings PyPy's high-performance just-in...
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection. Except for the problem of too many layers of indirection.
A key theme of the Rust 2019 roadmap is maturity . This covers a variety of topics, but a crucial one is compile times. For example, the roadmap itself has the following as the first main theme for the compiler team.
