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The most popular blog posts about programming languages on Hacker News. 84 posts.
This post is about optimizing an extremely simple AST-walking interpreter for a dynamic language called Zef that I created for fun to the point where it is competitive with the likes of Lua, QuickJS, and CPython.
TrueType is a widely used vector font standard for rendering text in web pages, PDFs, operating systems, and applications. Familiar fonts like Helvetica, Garamond, and Monaco are all built on TrueType outlines. The format specifies a hinting interpreter intended to help outlines rasterize faithfully on low-resolution…
_posted by Stephen De Gabrielle and John Clements_ We are pleased to announce Racket v9.2 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org/. As of this release:: The `match` form checks that when non-linear patterns (patterns where the same vari...
Rhombus version 1.0 is now available! Install: https://rhombus-lang.org/download.html More information: https://rhombus-lang.org/ Why a new language? https://rhombus-lang.org/goal.html (copied below) Frequently Asked Questions: https...
Four and a half years ago, Modular made a bet: AI would not run on one kind of silicon forever, and the software stack would need to be rearchitected for a world of heterogeneous hardware and increasingly complex AI workloads.
C# 15 introduces union types — declare a closed set of case types with implicit conversions and exhaustive pattern matching. Try unions in preview today and see the broader exhaustiveness roadmap.
Clojure 1.13.0-alpha1 is now available! Find download and usage information on the Downloads page.
The jank compiler has a new super power. With that, we push jank to the limits to see who has the fastest fibonacci in the west.
Julia, the programming language that originated as a research project at MIT, has gained a loyal following among scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and others. The free and open-source language counts more than 1 million users, including people at thousands of companies and universities around the world.
Modern Object Pascal Introduction: units, classes, generics, memory management, exceptions and more.
Pull up your agents folks, I'll convince you why Go is the best language for them.
How a dialect of LISP can help developping modern enterprise applications
I’ve been tinkering around with Zig to explore what’s possible with comptime. Whenever I evaluate a new language I use three axes:
How Go 1.26's source-level inliner works, and how it can help you with self-service API migrations.
We are announcing a new Crystal release 1.22.0 with several new features and bug fixes.
We are pleased to announce the Pyodide 314.0 release. This release focuses on standardization and packaging, marking a significant milestone in the Python-in-the-browser ecosystem. PEP 783 is Accepted: What Does It Mean? The acceptance of PEP 783: Emscripten packaging marks perhaps the most exciting change in the…
A description of some of the recent changes to do allocations on the stack instead of the heap.
Library maintainers may feel overwhelmed by the plurality of type checkers that exist. We offer some guidance on how to focus their efforts where they matter most.
Welcome to all Camleers We are back with another practical walkthrough for the newcomers of the OCaml ecosystem. We understand from the feedback we have gathered over the years that getting started with the OCaml Distribution can sometimes be perceived as challenging at first. That's why we keep it ...
Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust , optimal , and reusable software.
Modern tooling for parsing, searching, formatting, editing R code, just like for other programming languages.
By rearchitecting the Images binding, we accidentally uncovered a bug that existed in the open-source hyper library across multiple major versions.
Technical articles and release notes about Symbolica, symbolic computation, numerical methods, and high-performance computer algebra.
_posted by Stephen De Gabrielle and John Clements_ We are pleased to announce Racket v9.1 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org/. As of this release:: Documentation organization and navigation can be specialized by language family, to...
Transducers are composable algorithmic transformations. They are independent from the context of their input and output sources and specify only the essence of the transformation in terms of an individual element. Because transducers are decoupled from input or output sources, they can be used in many different…
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
`foldl` and `foldr` can be confusing, so let's work out what's up
There are many interesting, useful, and fun C libraries in the software ecosystem. While one could go and rewrite these libraries in Swift, usually there is no need, because Swift provides direct interoperability with C. With a little setup, you can directly use existing C libraries from your Swift code.
