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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 361 posts.

Programming Languages
2018
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Reasoning with Types in Rust

Hi, I'm Ariel (she/her), a newly-minted member of the Swift team at Apple ! Previously, I helped lead the Luau team at Roblox where my efforts primarily focused on the design and implementation of Luau 's type system. I also led the creation of Lute to support using Luau both to build developer tooling, and as a…

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Porting C to Rust

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Zig 0.3.0 Released

Zig is an open-source programming language designed for robustness , optimality , and clarity . 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 even if they dislike it.