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Defunctionalisation: An underappreciated tool for writing good software
Explore defunctionalisation as a tool for writing efficient software with insights from our own Patrick Stevens. See its benefits in code optimisation.
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Programming Languages
The most popular blog posts about programming languages on Hacker News. 1,929 posts.
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Go 1.21 Release Candidate
Go 1.21 RC brings language improvements, new standard library packages, PGO GA, backward and forward compatibility in the toolchain and faster builds.
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Why the New V8 Is So Damn Fast
The entire V8 compiler pipeline was overhauled and shipped with Node.js version 8. This post investigates what speed improvements we can expect as a result.
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Ruby 2.7
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.7.0.
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PHP 8.1.0
PHP 8.1 is a major update of the PHP language. Enums, readonly properties, first-class callable syntax, fibers, intersection types, performance improvements and more.
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Racket v9.0
_posted by Stephen De Gabrielle and John Clements_ We are pleased to announce Racket v9.0 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org/. **Racket 9.0 is here!** A major release is always exciting and Racket 9.0 is no exception in that it intr...
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Next steps toward Go 2
What Go 2 language changes should we include in Go 1.14?
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The Incredible Growth of Python
We recently explored how wealthy countries (those defined as high-income by the World Bank) tend to visit a different set of technologies than the rest of the world. Among the largest differences we saw was in the programming language Python. When we focus on high-income countries, the growth of Python is even larger…
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Officially Qualified – Ferrocene
It’s official: Ferrocene is ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 qualified! You can even find the certificate in TÜV SÜDs certificate database. This means we achieved qualification for the open source Ferrocene toolchain. Ferrocene 23.06.0, based on Rust 1...
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Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust
I have a hobby. Whenever I see the comment // this should never happen in code, I try to find out the exact conditions under which it could happen. And in 90% of cases, I find a way to do just that. More often than not, the developer just hasn’t cons…
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Fixing Python Performance with Rust
Why your JavaScript events are coming in quicker now.
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Python in the Windows 10 May update
Python might be hard to install on Windows, but with the latest Windows 10 update, you can type "python" to find it in the Microsoft Store.
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Go runtime: 4 years later
A check-in on the status of Go runtime development
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Pharo 9
Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment, focused on simplicity and immediate feedback.
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Applying programming language research ideas to transform spreadsheets
Spreadsheets are the world’s most widely used programming language, by several orders of magnitude. We asked ourselves whether it would be possible to apply programming language research ideas to make spreadsheets a better programming language? If we could, that would empower a huge user community to do more. One of…
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Haskell Mini-Patterns Handbook
Collection of small Haskell patterns with detailed description, examples and exercises
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Goodbye CoffeeScript, Hello TypeScript
Given the shortcomings of CoffeeScript, we investigated many alternatives, including ClojureScript, Babel, Elm, and PureScript. TypeScript stood out as a clear winner. Here's why.
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Ruby 3.0.0 RC1
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 3.0.0-rc1.
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Ruby 2.2.0 Released
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.2.0.
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A Brief History of the BEAM Compiler
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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Making the move from Scala to Go
The Vista Group blog shares our industry-leading knowledge about cinema along with product and technology updates, case studies, and news.
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Swift on Windows
The Swift project is introducing new downloadable Swift toolchain images for Windows! These images contain development components needed to build and run Swift code on Windows.