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Problems once solved by a metaclass can be solved by __init_subclass__
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,635 posts.
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Constraints in Go
Freedom is nothing without constraints, and Go’s generics gives us a powerful way to build polymorphic types and functions constrained by type sets . Let’s geek out.
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Lua for Elixir
Execute sandboxed Lua code on the BEAM VM using Luerl
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Adding row polymorphism to Damas-Hindley-Milner
Intro to HM
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Adding C-style for loops to Python (2022)
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Byte-Sized Swift: Building Tiny Games for the Playdate
I’m excited to share swift-playdate-examples, a technical demonstration of using Swift to build games for Playdate, a handheld game system by Panic.
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The Erlang Rationale
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...
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To Ruby from Python
Python is another very nice general purpose programming language. Goingfrom Python to Ruby, you’ll find that there’s a little bit more syntaxto learn than wi...
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I hate LaTeX, I love LaTeX
Everyone who knows me IRL (and, I suppose, who follows me online for long enough), knows that I have a… special relationship with LaTeX. I think it has something to do with its obscurity, when it wasn’t specifically made to be obtuse, and then being so good at what it does — which is typeset documents. It doesn’t help…
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Public static void main(String[] args) is dead
Holy fucking shit did this suck 1 . There is a comments section below. Give your eulogy for that piece of shit sorcerous incantation there or wherever else.
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How to Fix Slow Code in Ruby
How do we effectively find out why our application is slow? Even if we have a fix for the slow code, how can we prove that our new code is faster?
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Are unsound type systems wrong?
This is an essay I wrote early-2016. After battling with soundness vs. usability in Typed Clojure for many years, I was starting to reconsider the “obviously wrong” approach of baking unsoundness into the type system from the get-go. I look at some historical examples of intentional unsoundness in type systems, and…
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A perfectable programming language
At a party, Sydney Von Arx asked if I could name 40 programming languages. Yeah, that's the Bay for you. Racket, Agda, Clean, Elm, TypeScript, sh, ASP, Verilog, JavaScript, Scheme, Rust, Nim, INTERCAL, sed, Isabelle, Visual Basic, zsh, AlokScript, Coq, Idris, Hack, Prolog, Whitespace, PureScript, Go, Odin, Haskell…
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Zig 0.5.0 Release Notes
Zig is a general-purpose programming language designed for robustness , optimality , and maintainability . Zig is aggressively pursuing its goal of overthrowing C as the de facto language for system programming. Zig intends to be so practical that people find themselves using it, because it "just works".
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Cython is 20
Cython celebrates its 20th anniversary
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In defense of complicated programming languages
A polemic critique of 'simple' programming languages and a defense of complicated ones.
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Depressing and faintly terrifying days for the C standard [pdf]
Chris Lattner, the architect of the Clang/LLVM C compiler explained the effects of the C standard’s “undefined behavior”(UB):
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Why I Use Perl: Reliability
Perl 5 is a great language for new development because it and its ecosystem are amazingly reliable. Here's my case study.
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