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Staring at the Sun: Dalvik vs. Asm.js vs. Native
As many of you are probably already aware, Mozilla has recently gotten into the mobile OS space with Firefox OS. Firefox OS is built using ...
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The most popular blog posts about programming languages on Hacker News. 81 posts.
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Racket v5.3.2
_posted by Eli Barzilay_ Racket version 5.3.2 is now available from http://racket-lang.org/ Core Libraries:: The new `math` library provides functions and data structures for working with numbers and collections of numbers. Functions include non-ele...
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Everything about Java 8
A comprehensive summary of the developer-facing changes coming in Java 8.
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Clojure for the Brave and True – Functional Programming
So far, you’ve focused on becoming famil iar with the tools that Clojure provides: immutable data structures, functions, abstractions, and so on. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to think about your programming tasks in a way that makes the best use of those tools. You’ll begin integrating your experience into a new…
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Apple's new Objective-C to Javascript Bridge
A few month back, Apple quietly slipped a very nice Objective-C to Javascript bridge into WebKit. Since the first commit...
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HipHop VM: now at 98.5% PHP framework parity, 16% faster
On November 4th, the HHVM team went on a 3-week performance and parity lockdown. The lockdown officially ended on November 22nd. Overall, this lockdown was a...
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Deconstructing K&R C (2010)
Learn C The Hard Way (LCTHW) is a practical book teaching real world useful C using the same proven Learn The Hard Way method. LCTHW teaches real robust C coding and defensive programming tactics on real hardware rather than abstract machines and pedantic theory. The book emphasizes breaking your code on purpose, and…
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Behind the Scenes with Chicken Scheme
An interview with Felix Winkelmann about CHICKEN Scheme, the SPOCK Scheme-to-JavaScript compiler, and what motivates him to keep programming.
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Introducing the Go Race Detector
How and why to use the Go race detector to improve your programs.
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RFC: Replace Java with Go in default languages
This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
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Chrome and Opera Optimize for Mozilla-Pioneered Asm.js
Browsers Join Firefox as approved for running Epic Citadel Mozilla has been working hard to make asm.js as fast as possible in Firefox and progress has been really solid. Less ...
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Effective Scala
Scala is one of the main application programming languages used at Twitter. Much of our infrastructure is written in Scala and we have several large libraries supporting our use. While highly effective, Scala is also a large language, and our experiences have taught us to practice great care in its application. What…
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Factor 0.96 now available – over 1,100 commits
"You're smart too late and old too soon." - Mike Tyson I'm very pleased to announce the release of Factor 0.96! OS/CPU Win...
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GCC 4.8.1 released, C++11 feature complete
The release of GCC 4.8.1 was announced today (31 May 2013) on the gcc mailing list. In addition to many bug fixes, GCC 4.8.1 adds support for C++11 ref-qualifiers, the final missing C++11 feature. This makes GCC the first C++11 [Ed.: language specification] feature complete compiler to be released.
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Why Haskell Is Worth Learning
Why Haskell? It's an incredibly powerful tool to use with other langues. And learning it will make you a better, smarter, more-versatile programmer.
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Erlang 16B Released
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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PyPy3 (Python 3 support) 2.1 beta 1 released
We're pleased to announce the first beta of the upcoming 2.1 release of PyPy3. This is the first release of PyPy which targets Python 3 (3....
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What Lua scripting means for Wikimedia and open source
Yesterday we flipped a switch: editors can now use Lua, an innovative programming language, to generate sections of wiki pages on all our sites. We’d like to talk about what this means for th…
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Meet Crystal language in its birthday. It is compiled and has ruby like syntax
Yesterday Crystal became one year old. Yay! :-)
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Compiling to Lua
We use nginx throughout our network for front-line web serving, proxying and traffic filtering. In some cases, we've augmented the core C code of nginx with our own modules, but recently we've made a major move to using Lua in conjunction with nginx. One project that's now almost entirely written in Lua is the new…