Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,637 posts.
Rama is a platform with huge applicability, able to express all the computation and storage for a backend at any scale. Just like the UNIX philosophy of composing simple programs to do more complex…
Type safety is the property of a programming language, ensuring its programs are well defined and creating a foundation for reasoning.
Given a string, get a truncated string of length up to 12. The task is ambiguous, as it doesn't say anything about whether or not 12 shou...
In 2024 we announced our fourth Ada/SPARK Crate Of The Year Awards. We see the Alire source package manager as a game changer for Ada/SPARK, so we want to…
When I kicked off my startup HubSpot over 4 years ago June 2006 I wrote a set of articles on the topic of choosing a language/platform specific
From The Archives: This article is one of the all-time most popular posts from my previous blog Graham Hacking Scala. I thought it worth updating and re-printing it here. It’s a pretty widely-accepted view that, as a programmer, learning new … Continue reading →
For the past half year I’ve been exploring Julia in piecemeal fashion. It’s a language that does not conform to the traditional notions of programming. Julia...
Deprecate the Nashorn JavaScript script engine and APIs, and the jjs tool, with the intent to remove them in a future release.
Anyone trying to make a new mainstream language is completely insane, unless they're backed by a large corporation. 0
If you are an Emacs user with a keen eye, you will have noticed that in Emacs Lisp, code is data. After all, 'Lisp' is shorthand for 'List Processing'. One of E...
You may have heard last week how Innokenty Mihailov’s great Enumerable::Lazy feature was accepted into the Ruby 2.0 code base. But you may not have heard about an even more significant change that was merged into Ruby 2.0 in January: a new algorithm for garbage collection called “Bitmap Marking.” The developer behind…
Last Updated: 2017/06/15 Today, we are announcing the general availability of the .NET Framework 4.7. The .NET Framework 4.7 was released as part of Windows 10 Creators Update a month ago. You can now install the .NET Framework 4.7 on other versions of Windows. You can download the .NET Framework 4.7: Web installer…
First part of a series of articles about writing a .NET Garbage Collector in C# using NativeAOT. This part sets the expectations and setups the project, dealing with the first difficulties.
Listen in on Jane Street’s Ron Minsky as he has conversations with engineers working on everything from clock synchronization to reliable multicast, build systems to reconfigurable hardware. Get a peek at how Jane Street approaches problems, and how those ideas relate to tech more broadly.
At CloudFlare, We use Go for a variety of services and applications. In this blog post, We're going to take a deep dive into some of the technical intricacies of Go.
JDK 9 is in the final phases of development, heading towards release on September 21st. The public review consideration ballot for the Java Platform
I’ve stated before that one of the unique features of Emacs Lisp is that its closures are readable . Closures can be serialized by the printer and read back in with the reader. I am unaware of any other programming language that has this feature. In fact it’s essential for Elisp byte-code compilation because…
Out of all Lisps the ones I’ve come to appreciate the most are Scheme and Common Lisp.
I recently published a story about bitflyer, a simple game for the BBC micro:bit.
On best practices and gradient descent.
How StatHat uses Go, and why they chose it.
Irken is a simplified, statically-typed dialect of Scheme . It uses an ML-like type system supporting parametric polymorphism (i.e., "let polymorphism") and algebraic datatypes . With type inference and a pattern-matching syntax, it could be considered ML with a lisp/scheme syntax .
