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The most popular blog posts about programming languages on Hacker News. 1,929 posts.
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Why Ada isn't Popular (1998)
Rick Thorne writes: > In truth, I like Ada too. I'm a former Ada man myself, as I believe I > mentioned. There are great things about the language, and since we're all > aware of them there's no point in going into them. I also prefer Beta to > VHS. Mathew Heaney responds: This is actually a specious comparison…
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PHP 8.3
PHP 8.3 is a major update of the PHP language. It contains many new features, such as explicit typing of class constants, deep-cloning of readonly properties and additions to the randomness functionality. As always it also includes performance improvements, bug fixes, and general cleanup.
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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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Why Is JRuby Slow?
In this article, the author explores why JRuby, an alternative Ruby interpreter that runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), is slower than other R...
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Remembering a Programming Language That Helped Shape the Digital New York Times
It started as a program to add reader usernames, but quickly became the language powering The Times’s website.
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Why Reddit switched to Python (2005)
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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Swift: Announcing ArgumentParser
We’re delighted to announce ArgumentParser, a new open-source library that makes it straightforward — even enjoyable! — to parse command-line arguments in Swift.
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Implementing functional languages: a tutorial (1992)
This book gives a practical approach to understanding implementations of non-strict functional languages using lazy graph reduction. The book is intended to be a source of practical labwork material, to help make functional-language implementations `come alive’, by helping the reader to develop, modify and experiment…
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In Praise of APL: A Language for Lyrical Programming (1977)
In Praise of APL: A Language for Lyrical Programming Professor Alan J. Perlis Yale University
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The Sovereign Tech Fund invests in Scala
We’re truly excited to share that Scala has received an investment from the Sovereign Tech Fund to strengthen Scala’s long-term security, maintenance, and developer experience.
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Crystal 1.11.0 Is Released
We are announcing a new Crystal release with several new features and bug fixes.
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TypeScript 3.7 Beta
We're pleased to announce TypeScript 3.7 Beta, a feature-complete version of TypeScript 3.7. Between now and the final release, we'll be fixing bugs and
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Clojure: `every-pred` and `some-fn`
This post is part of Advent of Parens 2019 , my attempt to publish one blog post a day during the 24 days of the advent. Ah clojure.core , it’s like an all you can eat hot-pot....
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CPU registers and OCaml
Even though registers are a low-level CPU concept, having some knowledge about them can help write faster code. Simply put, a CPU register is a storage for a...
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Go Concurrency Patterns: Context
An introduction to the Go context package.
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A Primer on Logic Programming
Getting a kickstart in the logic programming world with Prolog
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Ada and SPARK enter the automotive ISO-26262 market with Nvidia
AdaCore and NVIDIA have decided to publish this reference process freely as an open-source and evolving document, allowing the industry at large to adopt…
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Megatron-Turing NLG 530B, the World’s Largest Generative Language Model
MT-NLG has 3x the number of parameters compared to the existing largest model of this type and demonstrates unmatched accuracy in a broad set of natural language tasks.
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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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Native Type Theory
Note: These pages make extensive use of the latest XHTML and CSS Standards . They ought to look great in any standards-compliant modern browser. Unfortunately, they will probably look horrible in older browsers, like Netscape 4.x and IE 4.x. Moreover, many posts use MathML, which is, currently only supported in…
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Dictionary and Set Improvements in Swift 4.0
In the latest release of Swift, dictionaries and sets gain a number of new methods and initializers that make common tasks easier than ever. Operations like grouping, filtering, and transforming values can now be performed in a single step, letting you write more expressive and efficient code.
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REBOL Oneliners
One-liners are like Haiku poetry. Not always practical, not always readable, they are fun to write. As with any art, some are better than others, but from time-to-time, a true gem pops up.
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Patterns with Rust Types
Patterns to use types for better safety and design
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