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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,929 posts.
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Macros: the Plan for Scala 3
One of the biggest open questions for migrating to Scala 3 is what to do about macros. In this blog post we give our current thoughts. The gist is that we are trying to achieve full alignment between macros and Tasty.
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Gleam v1.17.0
News post: Gleam v1.17.0 released!
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Perl is no more accurate than randomly-generated language
IEEE Software is publishing a short retrospective on this project in 2024. A preprint is available on the magazine's site , or you can download a PDF directly.
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Red Programming Language: 0.6.0: Red GUI System
Five years ago, when I started writing the first lines of code of what would become later the Red/System compiler, I had a pretty good pictu...
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Active Oberon Language Report Update 2019
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Zig 0.6.0 Release Notes
Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust , optimal , and reusable software. With special thanks to many generous sponsors , the Zig project is financially sustainable and currently supports one full-time developer . Let's reboot systems programming.
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A look back on OCaml since 2011
A look back on OCaml since 2011 As you already know if you’ve read our last blogpost, we have updated our OCaml cheat sheets starting with the language and stdlib ones. We know some of you have students to initiate in September and we wanted these sheets to be ready for the start of the school yea...
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mruby 3.2.0
mruby is the lightweight implementation of the Ruby language complying to (part of) the ISO standard. mruby can be linked and embedded within your application. We provide the interpreter program
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Master Concurrent Processes with core.async
One day, while you are walking down the street, you will be surprised, intrigued, and a little disgusted to discover a hot dog vending machine. Your scalp tingling with guilty curiosity, you won’t be able to help yourself from pulling out three dollars and seeing if this contraption actually works. After accepting…
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Will Carbon Replace C++?
Is Carbon going to be a real replacement for C++? Let's find out.
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JEP draft: Exception handling in switch
Enhance the switch construct so that exceptions thrown by the selector (the e in switch (e) ... ) can be handled in the switch block. Alongside a previous enhancement to handle null selectors, this makes switch even more useful for pattern matching. This is a preview language feature .
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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 new year resolution to have Crystal reach the 1.0 milestone in 2017
Crystal has gone a long way since we started it over five years ago. What was once an experiment to see if it was possible to have a compiled yet Ruby-like language, is now a trending language with over 7,000 GitHub stargazers and almost 1,400 shards. Its popularity has risen considerably in the last few years, and we…
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JEP 400: UTF-8 by Default
Specify UTF-8 as the default charset of the standard Java APIs. With this change, APIs that depend upon the default charset will behave consistently across all implementations, operating systems, locales, and configurations.
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Zig: What to Expect from Release Month
We’ve been relatively quiet over here at the Zig Software Foundation for a few months now and so it’s about time to give y’all an update.
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IntelliJ IDEA 15 Released, Adds Kotlin to the Family of Supported JVM Languages
Great news from the JetBrains team: today we're announcing the release of IntelliJ IDEA 15!As always, the new IntelliJ IDEA release brings a rich set of new features, better user interface, more bui
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Elixir v0.13.0 released, hex.pm and ElixirConf announced
Elixir v0.13.0 comes with substantial improvements to the language: maps, structs, comprehensiona and more. It also marks the announcement of the hex.pm package manager and the announcement of ElixirConf.
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One year of Roto, a compiled scripting language for Rust
By Terts Diepraam Almost exactly one year ago, we announced Roto, a JIT-compiled embedded scripting language for Rust applications. A lot has happened since then that we'd like to tell you about! 💡Along with this post, we published Roto v0.11.0! You can check out the changelog
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Go.dev: a new hub for Go developers
Announcing go.dev, which answers: who else is using Go, what do they use it for, and how can I find useful Go packages?