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Why We Use Julia, 10 Years Later
10 years ago today, we published 'Why we Created Julia' ...
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The most popular blog posts about programming languages on Hacker News. 1,929 posts.
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An Upgrade to SyntaxNet, New Models and a Parsing Competition
Posted by David Weiss and Slav Petrov, Research ScientistsAt Google, we continuously improve the language understanding capabilities used in applic...
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The Rust compiler is still getting faster
A key theme of the Rust 2019 roadmap is maturity . This covers a variety of topics, but a crucial one is compile times. For example, the roadmap itself has the following as the first main theme for the compiler team.
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What's New in Python 3.11?
Latest features the newest Python release has to offer, that you should know about - built-in TOML support, better exceptions, and typing improvements.
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What’s New in C# 7.0
Update (4/2017): See New Features in C# 7.0, the update to this post. What follows is a description of all the planned language features in C# 7.0. With the release of Visual Studio “15” Preview 4, most of these features are coming alive. Now is a great time to take them for a spin and tell […]
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Swift Homomorphic Encryption
We’re excited to announce a new open source Swift package for homomorphic encryption in Swift: swift-homomorphic-encryption.
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What I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code
Lead programmer talks Lua’s flexibility, challenges, and integration with Defold game engine after 60k lines of code in Craftomation 101.
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Not Your Grandfather’s Perl
That Perl interpreter you have on your Linux machine? Update it and check out the present.
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New Features in C# 7.0
Here is a description of all the new language features in C# 7.0, which came out last Tuesday as part of the Visual Studio 2017 release. C# 7.0 adds a number of new features and brings a focus on data consumption, code simplification and performance. Perhaps the biggest features are tuples, which make it easy […]
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Transducers are coming to Clojure
Transducers are a powerful and composable way to build algorithmic transformations that you can reuse in many contexts, and they're coming to Clojure core an...
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How to speed up the Rust compiler one last time
Due to recent changes at Mozilla my time working on the Rust compiler is drawing to a close. I am still at Mozilla, but I will be focusing on Firefox work for the foreseeable future.
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Python developers are embracing type hints
What is Typed Python? Why is it important for Python developers today? How to can you get started?
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JSC loves ES6
Update: The previous version of this post showed performance data from ARES-6 version 1.0.
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Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore
News post: Gleam v1.19.0 released!
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Helix: Rust and Ruby, Without the Glue
Rust + Ruby, Without The Glue. This post is a write-up of the talk I gave at RailsConf 2016. You can find the slides [https://speakerdeck.com/chancancode/turbo-rails-with-rust] here. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There's a lot to love about Ruby – the sweet syntax…
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The Logic Behind Japanese Sentence Structure
In this article, I break down Japanese sentence structure and show you exactly how Japanese sentences work. A solid understanding of this will save you a huge amount of time trying to make sense of Japanese grammar.
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Go 1.2 is released
Go 1.2 adds test coverage results, goroutine preemption, and more.
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Zig 0.9.0
Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust , optimal , and reusable software.
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