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Ruby 3.2.0
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 3.2.0. Ruby 3.2 adds many features and performance improvements.
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The most popular blog posts about programming languages on Hacker News. 128 posts.
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What Happened to Perl 7?
With Perl 5.36.0 just around the corner, we thought that this is a good time to clarify plans for the future of the Perl programming language. We realised that the future was hammered out in a number of steps, across several months. This meant that there hasn't been a single statement we could refer people to. This…
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Programming languages endorsed for server-side use at Meta
Supporting a programming language at Meta is a very careful and deliberate decision. We’re sharing our internal programming language guidance that helps our engineers and developers choose the best…
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Ruby delights built into the language
No Gems Needed
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Clojure 1.11 is now available
Clojure 1.11 provides new syntax for keyword argument invocation, namespace aliasing without loading, a new clojure.math namespace, and many additional bug fixes and enhancements.
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Rewriting TypeScript in Rust?
Donny (kdy1 on GitHub) is rewriting TypeScript in Rust hoping to speed up tsc which is slow due to its TypeScript base.
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Why we're sticking with Ruby on Rails
GitLab CEO and co-founder Sid Sijbrandij makes the case for Ruby on Rails.
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Rust and C++ Interoperability
In this blog post, I want to explore both directions of integration between Rust and C++ and present some tools we use in Slint.
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Why Rust?
I've been a programmer for 20+ years, and few things excite me as much as Rust. My background is mostly in C++, though I have also worked in Python and Lua, and dabbled in many more languages. I started writing Rust around 2014, and since 2018 I've been writing Rust full time. In my spare time I've developed a popular…
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An Introduction to Generics
An introduction to generics in Go.
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Babashka is a fast-starting scripting environment for Clojure
This is a guest blog post by Michiel Borkent.
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Ten Years of TypeScript
Today is TypeScript's birthday! But this birthday is a special one - 10 years ago today, on October 1st, 2012, TypeScript was unveiled publicly for the
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Erlang/OTP 25.0 Release
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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To Ruby from Python
Python is another very nice general purpose programming language. Goingfrom Python to Ruby, you’ll find that there’s a little bit more syntaxto learn than wi...
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Java record pattern matching in JDK 19
Enhance the Java programming language with record patterns to deconstruct record values. Record patterns and type patterns can be nested to enable a powerful, declarative, and composable form of data navigation and processing. This is a preview language feature .
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Mastering Nim – now available on Amazon
My book 'Mastering Nim - A complete guide to the programming language' is now available on Amazon
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Companies That Use Haskell in Production
Do you know why large companies like GitHub, Microsoft, Tesla, and Meta choose to use Haskell? Read our article on Haskell success stories to find out the answer.
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Racket v8.5
Racket version 8.5 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org. As of this release: Racket's new `-y` flag automatically keeps compiled files up to date, reducing subsequent load times. Error-message realms allow Racket-hosted langua...
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Rails adds support for Fiber-safe ActiveRecord ConnectionPools
ActiveRecord's ConnectionPool is now fiber-safe! Configure config.active_support.isolation_level for better throughput.
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Rewriting Libimagequant in Rust for Portability
libimagequant is a library for generating high-quality palettes, useful for compression of transparent PNG images (~75% smaller!) and making nice GIF animations .
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Will Hare replace C? Or Rust? Or Zig? Or anything else?
If the short answer leaves you wanting, keep reading. I must admit that this sentence from the Hare announcement may have caused some confusion:
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A cost model for Nim
This blog post is the beginning of a cost model for the implementation that is available via `Nim devel` aka Nim version 2.
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GraalVM 22.1: Developer experience improvements, Apple Silicon builds, and more
Today we’re releasing GraalVM 22.1! This release brings new features and lots of improvements — we’ll cover the highlights in this blog…
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Sorbet: Stripe's Type Checker for Ruby
Stripe uses Sorbet to type check our 15 million lines of Ruby code, making engineers more productive. Here's why we love Sorbet.
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Ferrocene: Rust toolchain to safety-critical environments
It’s here! A couple of months ago, we announced that as part of our efforts with Ferrocene, we were creating the Ferrocene Language Specification – and now our first draft is online. The Ferrocene Language Specification (FLS) is an effort of Ferrocene
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