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The release of the first major release of Crystal arrives after many years of hard work. With thousands of contributions from people worldwide, it was finally possible to find consensus for what truly mattered for 1.0 and what could wait for future releases. Getting here wasn’t an easy journey, filled with enriching…
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 3.1.0. Ruby 3.1 keeps compatibility with Ruby 3.0 and also adds many features.
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
In this article, the author explores the concept of "brown" and "green" programming languages based on the Stack Overflow Devel...
We are celebrating 10 years since the first commit to what would become Elixir.
Some highlights of the Julia 1.6 release.
Elixir v1.12 is out with improvements to scripting, tighter Erlang/OTP 24 integration, stepped ranges, and dozen of new functions across the standard library.
At Red Planet Labs we’ve been quietly developing a new kind of developer tool for many years. Our tool reduces the cost of building large-scale end-to-end applications by multiple orders of magnitu…
The Go standard library’s net.IP type is problematic for a number of reasons. We wrote a new one.
Precise code navigation is powered by stack graphs, a new open source framework that lets you define the name binding rules for a programming language.
Independent developer of narrative games and interactive stories.
In this article we will be exploring what parser combinators are, what runtime parser generation is - why they're useful, and then walking through a Zig implementation of them.
We present Logica, a novel open source Logic Programming language.
Welcome to the shiny new HPy blog! HPy has been around for a while now. The initial discussion started during EuroPython 2019, in the good old times when we could still go to conferences and have real
PHP 8.1 is a major update of the PHP language. Enums, readonly properties, first-class callable syntax, fibers, intersection types, performance improvements and more.
Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment, focused on simplicity and immediate feedback.
Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust , optimal , and reusable software.
Native Go fuzzing is now ready for beta testing on tip.
Transposing other language paradigms to Rust often reveals unforeseen issues. Here are some limitations of Rust and how to work around them.
In our team at Rakuten, we have been using Elm1 in production for almost two years now. This post is about our story, the lessons we learned, and our likes and dislikes. This post is quite long so if you prefer to see an overview, feel free to jump to the index. Everything started in the Berlin branch of Rakuten…
