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Working through 'Writing A C Compiler'
Some time ago I decided I wanted to create a c compiler for the Hack processor in the nand2tetris book. After several dead end attempts that I might describe later I found this book : Writing a C C…
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The most popular blog posts about programming languages on Hacker News. 3,709 posts.
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An Object-Oriented Language for the '20s
Object-oriented programming is out of fashion now, and it has been for a while. Rarely are new programming languages intentionally object-oriented. And there are good reasons for this: OO often requir…
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Overhead of Returning Optional Values in Java and Rust (2021)
Some programming languages like Java or Scala offer more than one way to express a concept of “lack of value”. Traditionally, a special null value is used to...
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Little languages are the future of programming
Little languages; what they are, why they matter and how they will shape the future of programming.
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Removing garbage collection from the Rust language (2013)
I've been floating ways to simplify the memory management story in Rust around the core team lately. Memory management is a contentious topic, since we've worked hard to get to the current state of things, and with the push toward stability lately, there is a (quite reasonable!) resistance to any changes at this…
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Looking at Unity made me understand the point of C++ coroutines
I had seen many talks about coroutines but it never really clicked where I could use them outisde of async IO. Until I looked at how Unity uses them in C#.
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Seemingly Impossible Swift Programs
We will construct Swift programs that should be impossible to implement, yet somehow are not!
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Deprecating Raw Pointers in C++20
The C++ Standard moves at a fast pace. Probably, not all developers caught up with C++11/14 yet and recently we got C++17. Now it’ time to prepare C++20! A few weeks ago The C++ Committee had an official ISO meeting in Jacksonville, FL (12-17 March 2018) where they worked hard on the new specification.
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Functor-Oriented Programming
My style of Haskell programming has been evolving over the 15 years that I have been working with it. It is turning into something that I would like to call “functor oriented programming”. The traditional use of typed functional programming focuses on data types. One defines data types to model the data structures…
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Lua, a Misunderstood Language (2021)
AndreGarzia.com website
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Why Perl Didn't Win
Perl used to be everywhere. Its fall from grace wasn't inevitable. Here's how it could have been prevented.
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Don’t blindly prefer emplace_back to push_back
In one of my recent training courses, a student informed me that both clang-tidy and PVS-Studio were complaining about some code of the form
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Why Operators Are Useful
This is something I posted on python-ideas, but I think it's interesting to a wider audience. There's been a lot of discussion recently ab...
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Parse, don’t type-check
There’s a fantastic article from last year titled Parse, don’t validate. I’d highly recommend it to any programmer (along with the more recent follow up Names are not type safety). The basic idea i…
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Named arguments are coming in PHP 8
A close look at named parameters in PHP 8
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Dark side of ergonomics in Rust
The dark side of ergonomics
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K Language (2011)
Forthcoming events See all events... News Administration Files Buyer Profile Jobs Tenure Procedures Attestation Documents To the Prize page Please donate BIC: UNCRBGSF IBAN: BG32UNCR76303100117336 Address: Institute of Mathematics and
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How to write X in both Python 3 and JavaScript
Python and JavaScript are two of the most popular programming languages . If you're a Python programmer learning JavaScript, or a JavaScript programmer learning Python, this handy cheat sheet might help you.
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Writing a C Compiler, in Zig (2025)
First foray into the Zig programming language
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Julia is awesome, but..
Here's a language that gives near-C performance that feels like Python or Ruby with optional type annotations (that you can feed to one of two static analysis tools ) that has good support for macros plus decent-ish support for FP, plus a lot more. What's not to like? I'm mostly not going to talk about how great Julia…
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Cakelisp: A Programming Language for Games
Update: See the Hacker News thread , /r/programming , /r/ProgrammingLanguages , /r/gamedev , and /r/lisp posts for discussions on this article and Cakelisp.