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Blacksmithing and Lisp
A blog about computers, functional languages, Lisp, and Scheme.
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The most popular blog posts about programming languages on Hacker News. 3,709 posts.
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Carefully exploring Rust as a Python developer
Trying out the Rust programming ecosystem as a 10+ years Python developer. How to do common programming tasks and how the tooling looks like.
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Amiga Java
Mike Kohn's music, software, and electronics projects.
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Rust programs written entirely in Rust
A blog by sunfishcode
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Gnirehtet rewritten in Rust
Several months ago, I introduced Gnirehtet , a reverse tethering tool for Android I wrote in Java.
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A Better Way to Implement Bit Fields
One of the main use cases for the Zig Programming Language is operating system development and embedded development. So, what better way to make sure the language is suitable than to work on a project in this field?
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C++ Papercuts
UPDATE: Wow, this post has gotten popular! I’ve written a new post that adds new papercuts combined with concrete suggestions for how C++ could improve, if you are interested. Also, if you want to read more about C++’s deeper-than-papercut issues, I recommend specifically my post on its move semantics. Thank you for…
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How types make hard problems easy
A deep dive into how I use types to the fullest
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Idioms for the D Programming Language
Effective D Programming Language.
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Making C and Python Talk to Each Other
How to Use Python in C
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Approximating sum types in Python with Pydantic
TL;DR: You can use Pydantic’s support for tagged unions to approximate sum types in Python; go right to Sum types in Python (and onwards) to see how it’s done.
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Moving Java Forward Faster
For over twenty years the Java SE Platform and the JDK have evolved in large, irregular, and somewhat unpredictable steps. Each feature release has been driven by one or a few significant features, and so the schedule of each release has been adjusted as needed — sometimes more than once! — in order to accommodate the…
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KDE makes Qt
Recently I was trying some statistics on the qtbase-module (where QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets and so on lives) and was wondering who made them. Not based on their current paid affilation, like Thiago’s graphs , but if each commit was made by a person coming from KDE.
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Clojure & Python, Side by Side
Function order has been rearranged here and there to appease Clojure's single-pass compiler.
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Understanding the Go Runtime: The Scheduler
In the previous article we explored how Go’s memory allocator manages heap memory — grabbing large arenas from the OS, dividing them into spans and size classes, and using a three-level hierarchy (mcache, mcentral, mheap) to make most allocations lock-free. A key detail was that each P (processor) gets its own memory…
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Dealing with Timezones in Python
The problems with timezones and Python’s datetime object and how you would properly use them.
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