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Starting FORTH (1981)
Starting Forth has always been the fun way to learn Forth programming. This free, online edition uses updated code that runs on modern Forth systems.
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The most popular blog posts about programming languages on Hacker News. 1,929 posts.
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James Gosling Interview
We had an opportunity to talk with James Gosling, a Canadian computer scientist, best known as the father of the Java programming language, and get his insight into the languages, features, and solutions that we use every day.
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String Deduplication – A new feature in Java 8 Update 20
Java 8 Update 20 String Deduplication with G1GC drastically reduces JVM memory by reusing duplicate char arrays. Optimize your Java applications today!
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Why Asana Is Switching to TypeScript
Are you interested in learning more about working on Asana's engineering team or the work they do? Read the Asana engineering blog.
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What does “asm.js optimizations” mean?
The Microsoft Chakra team has announced on the IE blog that asm.js optimizations are In Development . We at Mozilla are very excited for IE to join Firefox in providing predictable, top-tier performance on asm.js code and from my discussions with the Chakra team, I expect this will be the case.
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LLVM OpenMP Support
OpenMP support in Clang compiler is completed! Every pragma and clause from 3.1 version of the standard is supported in full, including combined directives (like ‘#pragma omp parallel for’ and ‘#pragma omp parallel sections’).
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This Week in Rust 499
Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust ! Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tag us at @ThisWeekInRust on Twitter or @ThisWeekinRust on mastodon.social, or send us…
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JEP 515: Ahead-of-Time Method Profiling
Improve warmup time by making method-execution profiles from a previous run of an application instantly available, when the HotSpot Java Virtual Machine starts. This will enable the JIT compiler to generate native code immediately upon application startup, rather than having to wait for profiles to be collected.
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Tailscale-rs: Official Rust library for embedding Tailscale
We've launched an experimental Rust library for Tailscale via tsnet. Help test tailscale-rs and shape it with your feedback.
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What's new in C# 12: overview
It′s mid-fall which means a new version of C# is coming soon. It′s time to find out what updates will soon appear in the language. Although C#12 has fewer features than previous versions, it still...
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Don't unwrap options: There are better ways (2024)
I noticed that handling the None variant of Option without falling back on unwrap() is a common papercut in Rust. More specifically, the problem arises when you want to return early from a function that returns a Result if you encounter None. It has …
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Scala.js 1.0.0-RC1
Harness the Scala and JavaScript ecosystems to develop robust apps for browsers, serverless, and Node.js.
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The miracle of reading and writing Chinese characters
March 26, 2017 @ 9:24 am · Filed by Victor Mair under Information technology , Language and computers , Language teaching and learning , Writing , Writing systems
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From Ruby to Crystal: A Quick Look
I'll definitely keep an eye on Crystal as it comes out of its beta phase. The syntax is familiar and easy to pick up and the performance is great.
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Progress on TypeScript 7 – December 2025
Earlier this year, the TypeScript team announced that we've been porting the compiler and language service to native code to take advantage of better raw
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Self Healing Code with clojure.spec
Works On My Machine is the place where Cognitects reflect on tech, culture, and the work we do. The views expressed on Works On My Machine are those of the a...
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PyPy 2.0 beta 2 released
We're pleased to announce the 2.0 beta 2 release of PyPy. This is a major release of PyPy and we're getting very close to 2.0 final, howeve...