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Zig 0.11
Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust , optimal , and reusable software.
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The most popular blog posts about programming languages on Hacker News. 126 posts.
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Rust fact vs. fiction: 5 Insights from Google's Rust journey in 2022
Wondering about Rust? We're addressing rumors and providing insight gained from years of early adoption of Rust here at Google.
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Oxidizing OCaml: Locality
OCaml with Jane Street extensions is available from our public opam repo. Only a slice of the features described in this series are currently implemented.
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Why Lisp?
A lot of people ask us the question, why do we choose to use Common Lisp as our primary development language? Often times the question comes disguised as a suggestion: "Flask is a great webserver you should consider using". This is a well intentioned suggestion- of course we would like to use the best tools available!…
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Python-based compiler achieves orders-of-magnitude speedups
Codon is a new tool that compiles Python code to run it more efficiently and effectively while allowing for customization and adaptation to various domains.
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Elixir is still safe
Examining the misleading claims in a published paper about Elixir security
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JEP draft: No longer require super() and this() to appear first in a constructor
In constructors in the Java programming language, allow statements that do not reference the instance being created to appear before an explicit constructor invocation. This is a preview language feature .
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New insights into the origin of the Indo-European languages
Linguistics and genetics combine to suggest a new hybrid hypothesis for the origin of the Indo-European languages
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On leading underscores and names reserved by the C and C++ languages
The rules laid out.
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Nim 2.0.0 RC2
The second release candidate (RC2) for Nim version 2.0 is ready for testing.
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Elixir – Why the dot when calling anonymous functions?
A detailed explanation of why Elixir uses a dot when invoking anonymous functions
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C++17’s useful features for embedded systems
A community and blog for embedded software makers
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WebAssembly: Adding Python support to WASM language runtimes
Providing up-to-date, convenient WebAssembly builds of Python with WASI support
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New C features in GCC 13
The GNU Compiler Collection 13 release implemented a number of interesting features in its C front-end. This article summarizes the most interesting ones.
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Strong arrows: a new approach to gradual typing
An introduction to strong arrows and how it leverages the Erlang VM to provide sound gradual typing.
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Onyx, a new programming language powered by WebAssembly
# What is Onyx? **Onyx** is a new programming language featuring a modern, expressive syntax, strict type safety, blazingly-fast build times, and out-o...
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A new F# compiler feature: graph-based type-checking
Graph-based type-checking is a new F# compiler flag that allows the compiler to type-check files in a project in parallel whenever possible.
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JEP 450: Compact Object Headers
Reduce the size of object headers in the HotSpot JVM from between 96 and 128 bits down to 64 bits on 64-bit architectures. This will reduce heap size, improve deployment density, and increase data locality.
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JEP 430: String Templates (Preview) Proposed to Target Java 21
Enhance the Java programming language with string templates . String templates complement Java's existing string literals and text blocks by coupling literal text with embedded expressions and template processors to produce specialized results. This is a preview language feature and API .
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Asynchronous Rust on Cortex-M microcontrollers
A community and blog for embedded software makers
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Haskell in Production: Standard Chartered
In this article of our Haskell in Production series, we interview José Pedro Magalhães from Standard Chartered – a multinational bank that has over 6 million lines of code written in their own dialect of Haskell.
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Single File Elixir Scripts
Experiment and debug with Elixir Scripts!
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Modern Pascal is still in the race (2022)
A recent poll on the Lazarus/FPC forum highlighted a fact: pascal coders are older than most coders. Usually, at our age, we should be managers, not developers. But we like coding
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Hashmaps in Factor are faster than in Zig
Recently, I was looking at the Zig programming language . As I often do, I started implementing a few typical things in new languages to learn them. Well, one of them was super slow and Zig is supposed to be super fast, so I was trying to understand where the disconnect was and compare it to Factor !
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Mojo is now available on Mac
We released Mojo local download for Linux systems on September 7th, and in just over a month we’ve seen tens of thousands of downloads and amazing community projects such as llama.🔥and Infermo. We deeply value your feedback, as Mojicians, and we appreciate every single PR, feature request, and bug report.