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Solving the Go Challenge 1 in Erlang
The first Go challenge is over. So by now, I can take my Erlang solution and write about how you would go around solving the challenge in…
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Cross compilation just got better in Go 1.5
Cross compilation is one of Go’s headline features. I’ve written about it a few times , and others have taken this work and built better tooling around it.
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Four MLs (and a Python)
I wrote a small command-line text processing program in four different ML-derived languages, to try to get a feel for how they compare in terms of syntax, library, and build-run cycles. ML is a fam…
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Java 8’s new Optional type doesn't solve anything
When Java 8 was released, I was excited to see the new Optional type. The null reference is a common source of errors in most languages…
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Error handling in Rust
Like most programming languages, Rust encourages the programmer to handle errors in a particular way. Generally speaking, error handling is divided into two broad categories: exceptions and return values. Rust opts for return values.
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Forgotten Language: Jorf could have been Python or Ruby (2005)
A long time ago, there was no Internet. Ok, there was an internet, but I lived outside of it. It was 1992 or 1993, and I only saw my first webpage and send my first email in 1995. And I was perhaps…
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Swift open source – let the revolution begin
It has only been a few days since the announcement of Swift going open source and the activity around the project has been incredible. When Apple revealed th...
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Designing a Programming Language
Programming languages come in a variety of different paradigms. Even so, there tend to be two main camps along the language front. There are static languages and there are dynamic languages. To avoid too much history and any sort of in-depth analysis, this article will simplify things with a number of assumptions. One…
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Warming up to Go
Lately, as I’ve had more experience with it, I’ve started to warm up to the language Go (aka “golang”).
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A Path to Enlightenment in Programming Language Theory
Learning about Programming Language Theory can be a tough journey, particularly for programming practitioners who haven’t studied it formally. This resource is here to help. Please feel free to get in touch if you have ideas for improvement.
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Elixir – The next big language for the web
In this article I will explain whyI thinkthe Elixir language will make a bigimpact in the world of web development.
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Running Rust on the Rumprun Unikernel
The Rust programming language has been able to run on bare-metal without the standard library for quite some while now. However, most Rust applications depend on the std crate, and therefore still need a full operating system to run.
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What makes Nim practical?
In my last post I showed what makes the Nim programming language special. Today, let’s consider Nim from another angle: What makes Nim a practical programming language?
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Best practices for a new Go developer
This year I had the privilege to organize GopherConIndia 2015 and also interview a number of Gophers.
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