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What I wish I knew when learning F#
I’ve used F# a lot in the last 3 years and for quite some time I wanted to collect a few good starting points to venture into F# in one place. I also wanted ...
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The most popular blog posts about programming languages on Hacker News. 3,708 posts.
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OCaml on Baremetal Shakti RISC-V Processor
It has been 3 months since I joined IIT Madras and it has been good fun so far. Along with the members of the RISE group , we’ve initiated a project to build secure applications on top of secure extensions of the open-source Shakti RISC-V processor ecosystem. Unsurprisingly, my language of choice to build the…
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A review of Nim 2: The good and bad with example code
I've been using Nim for about 1-2 years now, and I believe the language is undervalued. It's not perfect, of course, but it's pleasant to write and read. My personal website uses Nim .
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Cider 1.0
You can’t really know where you are going until you know where you have been. – Maya Angelou CIDER started its life as an effort to replace a hacked version of SLIME1 with a proper environment for Clojure development on Emacs. Many of you probably don’t remember those days, but initially almost everyone was using a…
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Go generics are not bad
When programming, we often need to write 'generic' functions where the exact data type is not important. For example, you might want to write a simple function that sums up numbers. Go lacked this notion until recently, but it was recently added (as of version 1.18). So I took it out for a spin. In … Continue reading…
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Why Lua?
Disclaimer: this article is intended for those familiar with programming languages ( Lua in particular).
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What is the core of the Python programming language?
Why ask this question? It's no secret that I want a Python implementation for WebAssembly [https://webassembly.org/]. It would not only get Python into the browser, but with the fact that both iOS [https://developer.apple.com/documentation/javascriptcore] and Android [https://developer.android.com/guide/webapps]…
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Scala isn't fun anymore
I’ve just spent over a day, going to sleep at 1:00 am, to upgrade dependencies and fix eviction warnings in the build of a Scala project.
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Rethinking Visual Programming with Go
This is a blog version of the talk I gave at GopherCon Europe 2019 (Canary Islands Edition) , where I shared my thoughts on why Visual Programming Languages have failed and revealed for the first time my experiment on visualizing Go code.
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Rust lifetimes: Getting away with things that would be reckless in C++
Random code snippets, projects and musings about software from Eric Kidd, a developer and occasional entrepreneur.
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Forth: The programming language that writes itself
A talk by Dave Gauer , 2023. Made with minslides , which I made for this talk . Use the J and K keys to go forward and backward. You can also just scroll down like a regular web page. Toggle notes/annotations with the N key.
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Pencil: A Microframework Inspired by Flask for Rust
Just create the static folder under your application root path, it just works. Now you can visit http://localhost:5000/static/example.png and get your file. You can customize the static folder and static url path.
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Read this post ‘unless’ you’re not a Ruby developer
Disclaimer: prepare for hair-splitting and nitpicking
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My experience rewriting Enjarify in Rust
I have moved off Medium to a personal blog. Click here for the updated post.
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Garbage Collection
We say Lox is a “high-level” language because it frees programmers from worrying about details irrelevant to the problem they’re solving. The user becomes an executive, giving the machine abstract goals and letting the lowly computer figure out how to get there.
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Modern C for C++ peeps (2019)
(update 26-Aug-2020: the MSVC team has recently added C11language support to their roadmap, hooray!)
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Why the C++ standard ships every three years
WG21 has a strict schedule (see P1000) by which we ship the standard every three years. We don’t delay it. Around this time of each cycle, we regularly get questions about “but why so strict?”, esp…
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Functools – The Power of Higher-Order Functions in Python
<p> Python standard library includes many great modules that can help you make your code cleaner and simpler and <code class="inline">functools</code> is d...
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Ruby and Its Neighbors: Smalltalk
Smalltalk was the second major influence on Ruby's design. A different kind of influence, since almost nothing of Smalltalk's syntax made into Ruby. But many of the details of how objects work are directly inspired by Smalltalk, including the idea that every piece of data is part of the object system.
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Interesting Programming Languages
an opinionated collection of programming languages.
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Taking Go modules for a spin
Update: Since this post was written, Go 1.11beta2 has been released. I’ve updated the setup section to reflect this. Russ Cox kindly wrote to me to explain the reasoning behind storing the Go module cache in $GOPATH . I’ve included his response inline.
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Ruby Concurrency Final Report
Ruby's native I/O methods traditionally blocked the calling fiber, leaving event-loop libraries to provide replacement wrappers. This Ruby Concurrency Progress Report presents a lightweight per-thread Fiber Scheduler which lets those native operations cooperate with an event loop. It explains the implementation and…
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Rust in an Instant
Personal website of Jan-Erik Rediger
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Python 3 is killing Python
The Python community should fork Python 2.