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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 48 posts.
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Chromium Blog: A New Crankshaft for V8
Today we are introducing Crankshaft, a new compilation infrastructure for V8, Google Chrome’s JavaScript engine. By using aggressive optimi...
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What Pythonistas Think of Ruby
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Better performance in App Engine with new Lisp language Clojure
This post is part of the Who's @ Google I/O , a series of blog posts that give a closer look at developers who'll be speaking or demoing at ...
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Clang++ Builds Boost
Boost is a collection of open-source, peer-reviewed C++ libraries that's well-known for having many good utility components for C++ programmers. It's also well-known for using bleeding-edge C++ techniques, such as extensive template and preprocessor metaprogramming, that have pushed many C++ compilers beyond their…
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Why Perl 6 is different
Let’s be honest. Perl 5, Python, Ruby, they’re almost the same. There are some differences, but when your compare them with C, Java, Haskell or some such they suddenly feel rather superficial. They suitable or unsuitable for pretty much the same tasks, occupying a niche that Perl pioneered: that of a high manipulexity…
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The Glasgow Haskell Compiler and LLVM
If you read the LLVM 2.7 release notes carefully you would have noticed that one of the new external users is the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC). As the author of the LLVM backend for GHC, I have been invited to write a post detailing the design of the backend and my experiences with using LLVM.
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LLVM's Clang Successfully Self-Hosts
Today, Clang completed its first complete self-host! We built all of LLVM and Clang with Clang (over 550k lines of C++ code). The resulting binaries passed all of Clang and LLVM's regression test suites, and the Clang-built Clang could then build all of LLVM and Clang again.
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PyPy 1.4: Ouroboros in practice
We're pleased to announce the 1.4 release of PyPy. This is a major breakthrough in our long journey, as PyPy 1.4 is the first PyPy release t...
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Python is now Python 3
A major Python update has just been moved from the testing repositories and will be available on a mirror near you. The default "python" package is now for the 3.x series while the 2.x series has been moved to a "python2" package, with python-2.7 having been scheduled to be the last major release in the python-2.x…
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Clojure 1.2 released
I'm pleased to announce today the release of Clojure 1.2. http://clojure.org/downloads For maven/leiningen users, your settings to get the b...
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Amazing feats of Clang Error Recovery
In addition to parsing and generating machine code for your source files when valid, a compiler frontend's job is also to detect invalid code and give you a hint that explains what is wrong so you can fix the problem.
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It's about time to start fighting against the Rails “magic” myth
When I first got into Ruby and Rails development, I was impressed about how everything worked. A few lines of code and so much got done. At that time, if I was reading a book or blog post that said: "just do X and Y will automagically work". I would gladly accept those instructions. However, after a while,
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Announcing Clojure/core
I'm happy to announce Clojure/core , a joint endeavor between myself and Relevance, Inc. Clojure/core is a specialized technical practice w...
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PyPy can now load and run CPython extension modules natively
PyPy is now able to load and run CPython extension modules (i.e. .pyd and .so files) natively by using the new CPyExt subsystem. Unlike the ...
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Why You Should Pay Attention to Node.Js
No, not “because I said so.” The best reason to pay attention to node.js is the audience that is paying attention to it. Joe Shaw’s pointer the other day was just the latest in a string of node.js mentions. By now you’ve probably heard that the folks from Heroku recently – as in two weeks