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The most popular blog posts about programming languages on Hacker News. 3,708 posts.
The purpose of the Smalltalk project is to provide computer support for the creative spirit in everyone. Our work flows from a vision that includes a creative individual and the best computing hardware available. We have chosen to concentrate on two principle areas of research: a language of description (programming…
“People say, It’s just glorified autocomplete . . . Now, let’s analyze that. Suppose you want to be really good at predicting the next word. If you want to be really good, you have to understand what’s being said. That’s the only way. So by training something to be really good at predicting the next word, you’re…
Personal blog of Saurabh Nanda
The main reasons Go makes it easier (than Java or Python) to write correct, clear and efficient code are discussed in this comprehensive report by an expert Go and Java developer.
This post got a lot of discussion on Hacker News that you might find interesting. I’ve been writing a fair bit of Perl 6 lately, and my main takeaway so far is that Perl 6 is fun. Pretty much everything I love in Perl 5 is still part of Perl 6, but almost everything I hate is gone too. $Love - $Hate = $Fun; Here are…
Introduction
I intented this to be a small post with some lessons learned after working one year as a CL dev, however it turned out quite long (two parts!). As always: All opinions are my own. This post is not endorsed by anybody.
Prefer f(void) in C to potentially save a 2B instruction per function call when targeting x86_64 as a micro-optimization. -Wstrict-prototypes can help. Doesn’t matter for C++.
Introduction to the Rust language, standard library and ecosystem
Exploring tail-call-style interpreter implementation with an optimized Uxn emulator, on ARM, x86, and WebAssembly
this post was discussed on various posts and podcasts including: Ruby5 , HackerNews , and Ruby Inside . BTW, this is now 29 27 25 lines.
A guide to all the Magic Methods in Python
I wrote a blog post ten years ago. How do I feel about it now?
How to start really getting Ruby, especially blocks.
Some notes about what appears to be current trend of programming languages and my thoughts about it.
Yet another programming blog. Thoughts on software and related misadventures.
How Zig's allocators can help manage memory and improve performance
In my last blog post I wrote about the power of D’s compile-time reflection and string mixins, showing how they could be used to call D from Python so easily it might as well be magic. As ama…
LISP-NOTES ON ITS PAST AND FUTURE-1980
From Erlang, to Elixir and now, GLEAM!?
The Personal blog and musings of Chris Penner, a designer, developer and future opsimath.
My Implementing a Forth article got some great feedback, particularly around the subject of tiny Forth implementations. (And it was an excuse to list some of the tiniest Forths I’ve seen.)
With OTP-21 came a new logging library in Erlang called logger . It comes as an attempt to offer a built-in alternative to long successful projects such as lager , which have seen years of battle testing and tweaking for performance. I've seen few articles written about the new logger and what it can do, so I've…
This is a little summary of my current thoughts on Rust. I wonder whether I’ll look back in five years and see if my views have changed.
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When asked about the virtues of Haskell’s strong type system, most people will say the best part is that it lets you refactor with a zen-like tranquility, or that it stops your program from crashing at runtime. I mean, those are both great. But my favorite part is that having a strong type system means I don’t need to…
