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Problems with Go Get
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Make a Lisp in Nim
I spent the last weekend working through the amazing guide for Make a Lisp , writing a Lisp interpreter in Nim. The final result just made it into the repository.
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Rust traits for developer friendly libraries
Mildly interesting technology stories.
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Compiling Julia for NVIDIA GPUs
For the few last months, I have been working on CUDA support for the Julia language . It is now possible to write kernels in Julia and without much hassle execute them on a NVIDIA GPU, but there are still many limitations.
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Gradual typing for Clojure
Today’s programming landscape is dynamic and polyglot . Interlanguage interoperability is a mainstay — it’s almost unavoidable that a given piece of code will be used without the knowledge of the original author.
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Sylph: the programming language I want
Creating a programming language is apparently all the rage these days, and it’s got me thinking about what I would really like to see in one. I’m starting to suspect the things I want are either impossible or mutually incompatible, so I’d better write them down and let smarter people tell me why I can’t have…
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What will be the legacy of Go?
In October this year I had the privilege of speaking at the GothamGo conference in New York City. As I talk quite softly, and there were a few problems with the recording, I decided to write up my slide notes and present them here.
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Java 7 changed the structure of String
Java 7 quietly changed the structure of String. Instead of an offset and a count, the String now only contained a char[]. This had some harmful effects for those expecting substring() would always share the underlying char[].
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Writing Friendlier Clojure
I love the Clojure language, but I don’t think there’s any use pretending that the combination of expressiveness, power, and repl-driven development can result in some staggeringly dense code. Everyone that writes Clojure is guilty of this at one time or another; you start with the core of your function, evaluate it…
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F*dging up a Racket
Source code can be found at: https://github.com/dyoo/brainfudge . The latest version of this document lives in http://hashcollision.org/brainfudge .
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Wrapper Types in Rust: Choosing Your Guarantees
This post is now a part of the official rust book In my previous post I talked a bit about why the RWlock pattern is important for accessing data, …
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Don't Learn C the Wrong Way
Update : On Sep. 28, 2015, Zed Shaw wrote a rebuttal to this post. You can find the details here .