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In this blog post we’ll go through a sample implementation of a type checker, interpreter and a transpiler for a basic purely functional programming language, which is based on the lambda calculus. We will do a “full-stack” programming language development by going through formal definition of the language’s syntax…
This blog post started last August when I was integrating the Spectator PercentileTimer concept into the metrics library in Rend so we could get better cross-fleet latency percentiles.
...everything that's wrong with C++ comes down to that. Background: I've been programming in C++ since about 1993; that's 17 years now. As...
Farewell, Rust for web. For now…
Proponents of Zig claim that it does not have function colors. In this post, I attempt prove that it does.
To type or not to type: quantifying detectable bugs in JavaScript Gao et al., ICSE 2017 This is a terrific piece of work with immediate practical applications for many project teams. Is it worth th…
Apple has been actively evangelizing the use of Swift since it was announced at WWDC in 2014. In the Platforms State of the Union, Andreas…
In my last post about Zig and Rust, I mentioned that Rust is a scalable language. Let me expand on this a bit.
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Out of all Lisps the ones I’ve come to appreciate the most are Scheme and Common Lisp.
Difference between strings and symbols in Ruby
A new top-level syntax for programming languages is proposed to show advantages of this method. New syntax is arguably as simple, but more consistent, better preserves visual structure and solves some issues in code formatting.
I wrote a lambda-calculus interpreter and an implementation of Hindley-Milner to type check it.
“If you don’t know how compilers work, then you don’t know how computers work. If you’re not 100% sure whether you know how compilers work, then you don’t know how they work.” — Steve Yegge There you have it. Think about it. It doesn’t really matter …
It’s 32 years old, and it remains the single greatest book ever written about a programming language. Its crown is secure; even if you’d not already read the title of this article, you…
The Go runtime, in addition to providing the usual services of garbage collection, goroutine scheduling, timers, network polling and so forth, contains facilities to enable extra debugging output and even alter the behaviour of the runtime itself.
Every now and then, there’s a post predicting the death of the Java language. The funny thing is that none of them writes about a date. But to be honest, they are all probably true. This is the fate of every language: to disappear into oblivion - or more precisely to be used less and less for new projects.
I sometimes get asked why I use Perl so much. Am I not a fan of strongly typed functional programming? Yeah, I am. Ask me to write something that is known, for sure , to become a big system and I’ll pick strongly typed functional programming without hesitation. 1 1 And, of course, put me in a team that uses Blub, and…
A short post about a neat little Zig idiom. Consider your average {sum type, variant, tagged union, enum, alt}:
Every March, developers worldwide each try to make a roguelike game in less than 168 hours as part of the 7DRL Challenge . Roguelike games are hard , involving procedural level generation, pathfinding, line-of-sight algorithms, and more dijkstra maps than you can imagine.
I believe the notion that Haskell uses “monads” to enforce purity is rather misleading. It has certainly caused quite a bit of confusion! It’s very much like saying we use “rings to do arithmetic”. We don’t! We use numbers, which just happen to form a ring with arithmetic operations. The important idea is the number …
wingolog: article: baffled by generational garbage collection
After reading boat’s excellent post on asynchronous destructors , I thought it might be a good idea to write some about async fn in traits. Support for async fn in traits is probably the single most common feature request that I hear about. It’s also one of the more complex topics. So I thought it’d be nice to do a…
At Devoxx last week I used the phrase "Scala feels like EJB 2 to me". What was on my mind? Scala For a number of years on this blog I'v...
