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Algebraic Data Types in Haskell
In this article, we introduce you to the concept of algebraic data types and show how you can build your own data types in Haskell.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,637 posts.
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Porting Swift to Haiku
Hello everyone! This report covers the span of the last two weeks of my porting efforts to get swift running on Haiku. I started debugging the runtime library ’libswiftCore’ on both Haiku and Linux and focused my attention specifically to …
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Nim language v0.18.0 released
The Nim team is happy to announce that the latest release of Nim, version 0.18.0, is now available. Nim is a systems programming language that focuses on performance, portability and expressiveness.
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Make a Lisp in Nim
I spent the last weekend working through the amazing guide for Make a Lisp , writing a Lisp interpreter in Nim. The final result just made it into the repository.
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Rust traits for developer friendly libraries
Mildly interesting technology stories.
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Bringing Forward the End-of-Life Date for Node.js 16
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
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Crystal 0.26.0 released
Crystal 0.26.0 has been released!
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JEP 457: Class-File API for Parsing, generating, transforming Java classfiles
Provide a standard API for parsing, generating, and transforming Java class files. This is a preview API .
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Undershoot: Parsing theory in 1965
Jeffrey Kegler's blog about Marpa, his new parsing algorithm, and other topics of interest
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Closer to finding what became of Moses Schönfinkel, inventor of combinators
In a follow-up to his first article about Moses Schönfinkel, Stephen Wolfram looks for the whereabouts of Schönfinkel after 1924 through his family history.
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Clojure 1.3 First Impression (It's Fast)
Fractal Tree of the Gods A while ago , I was disappointed to discover that a certain fractal tree program was visibly slower in Clojure...
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When you get to be smart writing a macro
A story of writing Clojure’s println alternative that works inside threading-first/last macros
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Optimizing GoAWK with a bytecode compiler and virtual machine
How I sped up GoAWK by switching from a tree-walking interpreter to a bytecode compiler and virtual machine interpreter.
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Mu: Sketching out a minimal system programming language
In the previous post , I described what my new hobbyist computing stack looks like today, and how the design decisions seemed to accumulate inevitably from a small set of axiomatic goals. In this post I describe some (far more speculative) future plans for Mu and try to articulate how the design process continues to…
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Build systems a la carte: theory and practice (2020)
Andrey Mokhov, Neil Mitchell, Simon Peyton Jones Published in Journal of Functional Programming, Vol 30(E11) View PDF Download BibTex
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Ash: A Gentle Primer
An introduction to Ash Framework, written for new Elixir developers. Comes with LiveBooks for interactive examples, live-coding video walkthrough, and illustrations.
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Compiling Julia for NVIDIA GPUs
For the few last months, I have been working on CUDA support for the Julia language . It is now possible to write kernels in Julia and without much hassle execute them on a NVIDIA GPU, but there are still many limitations.
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Mobile Smalltalk
I've been announcing the Open Beta release of my game HexSolve for Android and iOS. HexSolve was written in Smalltalk and people have been ...