Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 433 posts.
After immersing oneself in a research area for several years, it’s easy to feel like the heir to a way of looking at the world that is criminally underrated: why don’t more people want what I want? This can be a useful motivation, but it can also lead to ignoring the changing context in which most research sits. So…
Diesel (http://diesel.rs) is an ORM (Object-relational mapper) and Query Builder written in Rust. It supports Postgresql, Mysql and SQLite…
-> is right associative, The function definitions from the previous slide will be parsed like this:
Almost five months ago, I wrote a blog post about my new programming language, Hackett , a fanciful sketch of a programming language from a far-off land with Haskell’s type system and Racket’s macros. At that point in time, I had a little prototype that barely worked, that I barely understood, and was a little bit of…
Introduction to parser combinators. Understand this functional programming concept for building parsers from smaller components.
Recently Julia Evans wrote an excellent post about debugging a segfault in Rust. (Go read it, it’s good) One thing it mentioned was I think “ …
We are happy to announce the first Technology Preview of Kotlin/Native that compiles Kotlin directly to machine code. The Kotlin/Native compiler produces standalone executables that can run without an
Several months ago, I introduced Gnirehtet , a reverse tethering tool for Android I wrote in Java.
AdaCore is the leading provider of commercial software solutions for Ada, C and C++ — helping developers build safe and secure software that matters.
For over twenty years the Java SE Platform and the JDK have evolved in large, irregular, and somewhat unpredictable steps. Each feature release has been driven by one or a few significant features, and so the schedule of each release has been adjusted as needed — sometimes more than once! — in order to accommodate the…
In a previous blog post, I observed that one of the medium-termpossibilities we’re seriously considering for NTPsec is moving theentire codebase out of...
RECENTLY I've been paying attention to the BuckleScript compiler from OCaml to JavaScript (ES5, to be exact). I'm seeing some significant a...
_posted by Vincent St-Amour_ Racket version 6.11 is now available from http://racket-lang.org/ A bug preventing OneDrive users on Windows 10 Fall Creators update from opening files has been fixed. Typed Racket supports refinement types and depe...
I wrote a full featured application in rust, and so can you!
Rocket is a web framework for the Rust programming language that makes it simple to write fast web applications without sacrificing flexibility or type safety.
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
Discussing a recent academic finding on Java and Scala, from industry's perspective.
It’s been about a year since I’ve started using Elixir. Originally, I intended to use the language only for blogging purposes, thinking it could help me better illustrate benefits of Erlang Virtual Machine (EVM). However, I was immediately fascinated with what the language brings to the table, and very quickly…
Java 9 preparations Java 9 is coming and brings Project Jigsaw to the table — the Java platform module system. One of the constraints it imposes is that no two modules can declare public API in the s
