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A 10x Faster TypeScript
Embarking on a native port of the existing TypeScript compiler and toolset to achieve a 10x performance speed-up.
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The most popular blog posts about programming languages on Hacker News. 92 posts.
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JavaScript Temporal is coming
A new way to handle dates and times is being added to JavaScript. Let's take a look at Temporal, what problems it solves, the current state, and what you'll find in the new documentation about it on MDN.
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We found a bug in Go's ARM64 compiler
84 million requests a second means even rare bugs appear often. We'll reveal how we discovered a race condition in the Go arm64 compiler and got it fixed.
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Ruby 4.0.0
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 4.0.0.Ruby 4.0 introduces “Ruby Box” and “ZJIT”, and adds many improvements.
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Migrating away from Rust
Why we moved Architect of Ruin from Rust and Bevy to C# and Unity in January 2025, and how the three-day experiment that decided it went.
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The Swift SDK for Android
Swift has matured significantly over the past decade — extending from cloud services to Windows applications, browser apps, and microcontrollers. Swift powers apps and services of all kinds, and thanks to its great interoperability, you can share code across platforms.
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Ruby core team takes ownership of RubyGems and Bundler
Dear Ruby community,
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Coordinating the Superbowl's visual fidelity with Elixir
A case study of how Elixir is being used at Cyanview.
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.NET 10
Announcing the release of .NET 10, the most productive, modern, secure, intelligent, and performant release of .NET yet. With updates across ASP.NET Core, C# 14, .NET MAUI, Aspire, and so much more.
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Apple is open sourcing Swift Build
Swift continues to grow in popularity as a cross-platform language supporting a wide variety of use cases, with support on a variety of embedded devices, form factors that encompass wearables to server, and a wide variety of operating systems. As Swift expands, there’s value in investing in matching cross-platform…
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Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++
Looking at C++ from another angle can create new possibilities using Rust.
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Tree Borrows
external page Neven Villani , external page Johannes Hostert , external page Derek Dreyer , external page Ralf Jung
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Flattening Rust’s learning curve
I see people make the same mistakes over and over again when learning Rust. Here are my thoughts (ordered by importance) on how you can ease the learning process. My goal is to help you save time and frustration. Let Your Guard Down Stop resisting. T…
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Node.js is able to execute TypeScript files without additional configuration
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
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PHP 8.5 adds pipe operator
The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language
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Ruby website redesigned
A Programmer's Best Friend
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(On | No) Syntactic Support for Error Handling
Go team plans around error handling support
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I stopped everything and started writing C again
Welcome to kmx.io
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Elixir 1.19
Elixir v1.19 released: type checking of protocols and anonymous functions, broader type inference, improved compile times, and more.
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Racket v9.0
_posted by Stephen De Gabrielle and John Clements_ We are pleased to announce Racket v9.0 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org/. **Racket 9.0 is here!** A major release is always exciting and Racket 9.0 is no exception in that it intr...
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Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust
I have a hobby. Whenever I see the comment // this should never happen in code, I try to find out the exact conditions under which it could happen. And in 90% of cases, I find a way to do just that. More often than not, the developer just hasn’t cons…
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Python developers are embracing type hints
What is Typed Python? Why is it important for Python developers today? How to can you get started?
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ML needs a new programming language – Interview with Chris Lattner
Listen in on Jane Street’s Ron Minsky as he has conversations with engineers working on everything from clock synchronization to reliable multicast, build systems to reconfigurable hardware. Get a peek at how Jane Street approaches problems, and how those ideas relate to tech more broadly.
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Embedding Python in Elixir, it's fine
Introducing Python interpreter embedded in Elixir and a Fine way to write your NIFs.
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Nvidia Security Team: “What if we just stopped using C?” (2022)
Today I want to share a great story about why many NVIDIA products are now running formally verified SPARK code. This blog post is in part a teaser for…
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Good-bye core types; Hello Go as we know and love it
Go 1.25 simplifies the language spec by removing the notion of core types
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Why Algebraic Effects?
Algebraic effects 1 (a.k.a. effect handlers) are a very useful up-and-coming feature that I personally think will see a huge surge in popularity in the programming languages of tomorrow. They’re one of the core features of Ante, as well as being the focus of many research languages including Koka , Effekt , Eff , and…