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Distribution of JVM Desktop Applications
This is the 6th post in the The state of JVM desktop frameworks focus series.
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What's New in PHP 8.1
PHP 8.1 adds support for PHP enums, as well as readonly properties, Fibers, performance improvements, new in initializers, and more.
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A History of the Rubinius Ruby JIT
Rubinius began as a metacircular implementation of Ruby and was billed as Ruby in Ruby . Today the core and much of the standard library, parser, bytecode compiler, and other components are implemented in Ruby, but the interpreter, runtime, GC and other components, are written in C++.
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Would Rust Secure Curl?
Rewriting programs in Rust has become a bit of a meme and one program that has been discussed a lot is cURL .
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I use Attrs instead of Pydantic
This post is an account of why I prefer using the attrs library over Pydantic. I'm writing it since I am often asked this question and I want to have something concrete to link to.
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An Intuition for Lisp Syntax
Every lisp hacker I ever met, myself included, thought that all those brackets in Lisp were off-putting and weird. At first, of course. Soon after we all came to the same epiphany: lisp’s power lies in those brackets ! In this essay, we’ll go on a journey to that epiphany.
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Cyclic dependencies are evil (2013)
Cyclic dependencies: Part 1
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Reflections on Using Haskell for My Startup
Almost exactly one year ago I quit my job to create a Haskell startup as a solo developer. I had about 20 ideas, but eventually settled on the idea of dependency project health tracking with Deadpendency.
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Fixing memory leaks in popular Python libraries
I was recently able to make a minimal example that reproduced a Celery memory leak. The memory leak would happen on the main Celery worker process that’s forked to make child processes, which makes the leak especially bad. Issue #4843 has been around for 3+ years and has 140+ comments, so this one has been causing a…
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Compiling a Lisp to x86_64 (2020)
Tiger got to hunt, Bird got to fly; Lisper got to sit and wonder, (Y (Y Y))? Tiger got to sleep, Bird got to land; Lisper got to tell himself he understand. -- Kurt Vonnegut, modified by Darius Bacon
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Common Lisp code optimisation
Common Lisp is one of the few languages which is both dynamic and also gives you a full native compiler and the ability to declare types ...
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Nil in Go is typed in theory and sort of untyped in practice
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Fuzz me wrong – How QuickCheck destroyed my favourite theory
Quite a while back I wrote a larger article on the algebraic foundation of software patterns which also covered the MapReduce algorithm .
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A working D compiler on OpenBSD
I got GDC , the GNU D Compiler, working on OpenBSD . Supporting D has been a very long time coming. Here's the story of how we got here and where we need to go next.
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Thoughts On Lisp And Racket (2019)
I plan on writing about why I am interested in the Lisp family of languages. It will probably come out in stages.
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Rare Greek Variables
I scrape Arxiv to find underused Greek variables which can add some diversity to math; the top 10 underused letters are ϰ, ς, υ, ϖ, Υ, Ξ, ι, ϱ, ϑ, & Π. Avoid overused letters like λ, and spice up your next paper with some memorable variables!
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Debugging in Clojure
A guide to debugging in Clojure, using the REPL
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Ruby 3 JIT can make Rails faster
I’ve wondered Why Rails becomes slow with JIT for a long time. Today, I’m pleased to share my answer to the question in this article, which…
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How Actors Work Internally in Swift
Lets explore how actors work under the hood, using Swift's own source code as a guide to finding out how they work inside the compiler.
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What memory model should Rust use?
This blog post discusses a few alternative Rust-language memory models. I hope that this discussion is of value to the Rust community, but in the end, it is their language, so it is also their choice of memory model. This discussion takes the Rust fearless-concurrency viewpoint, tempered by…
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Wild claims about K performance
Sometimes I see unsourced, unclear, vaguely mystical claims about K being the fastest array language. It happens often enough that I'd like to write a long-form rebuttal to these, and a demand that the people who make these do more to justify them.
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Stack Overflow Users Rejoice as Pattern Matching Is Added to Python
Our on-the-ground reporter gauges developer reactions to the Python Steering Council's latest decision regarding pattern matching.
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Friendship ended with the garbage collector
It's been a while since the last update about my work on the Inko programming language . Not because there hasn't been any progress, but because I've been busy making changes. A lot of changes.
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Functional Programming in Go with Generics
Functional programming is an increasing popular programming paradigm with many languages building or already supporting it. Go already supports some of these features such as first-class and higher order functions and enabling functional programming.
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Revisiting Prechelt’s paper comparing Java, Lisp, C/C++ and scripting languages
In 1999, Lutz Prechelt published a seminal article on the COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM (October 1999/Vol. 42, No. 10) called Comparing Java vs. C/C++ Efficiency Differences to Interpersonal Differences , henceforth Java VS C , which seems to have later (March 2000) been expanded into a full paper, An empirical comparison…
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Ten years without Elixir
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