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Goja: A Golang JavaScript Runtime
The personal website of JT Archie. Includes a blog, work ethic, and projects they have worked on.
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The most popular blog posts about programming languages on Hacker News. 246 posts.
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Monads are like burritos (2009)
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Parsing Awk Is Tricky
A somewhat compact implementation of the awk programming language
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Design Patterns Are Temporary, Language Features Are Forever
Design patterns are these cool things that make you go 'hell yeah' because they make a certain problem easier to deal with. Whether it's applicable to all languages, or due to a language constraint, they're pretty nice. Of course, some people go crazy with them rather than doing the simple thing that works. Other…
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An Overview of the Starlark Language
Laurent Le Brun's blog
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Introduction to Golang Preemption Mechanisms
A short explanation of what is preemption and how it works
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Performance Analysis of Python's Dict() and {}
Some time ago, during a code review, I had a discussion with a colleague of mine about preferring dict() over {} in new Python code. They argued that dict() is more readable — and expresses intent more clearly — therefore should be preferred. I wasn’t convinced by that, but at that time I didn’t have any…
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Compile-time JSON deserialization in C++
(Discussion on HackerNews)
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A step beyond Rust's pattern matching
Projects and articles by Chris Gioran
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Universal domain types
A guide to domain-specific types that make sense.
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Implementing SM-2 in Rust
An implemenation of the SuperMemo-2 algorithm.
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Code Conversion Language (2019)
Update : I forgot that I did a brief analysis on this many years ago, using ROT13 as example.
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An Awk Implementation in C99
A somewhat compact implementation of the awk programming language
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Crossing the impossible FFI boundary, and my gradual descent into madness
Anyone trying to make a new mainstream language is completely insane, unless they're backed by a large corporation. 0
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Cursed Linear Types in Rust
Inspired by Jack Wrenn’s post on Undroppable Types in Rust, I set out to see if it’s possible to create types that must be used exactly once. From my understanding, those things are called linear types, but don’t quote me on that1. Unless you are quoting the title of this article which explicitly says linear types… I…
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PHP in 2024
A blog about modern PHP, the web, and programming in general. Follow my newsletter and YouTube channel as well.
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Stem, a stack-based language with metaprogramming and a C FLI
My own concatenative programming language
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Elixir Gotchas
No, I’ve not gone to the click-baiters (“10 tips that will change your life today!!!”), but I chose to limit myself to just 10 so that I don’t pull what is considered a R…
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Compiling History: A brief tour of C compilers
As the story of C’s birth goes hand in hand with the creation of Unix, the first C compiler can be traced back to the early 1970’s.
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Ruby might be faster than you think
I saw a project a couple weeks back which allows writing and running Crystal methods inline inside a Ruby file. It’s a neat project, and I don’t want to take away from it but something in the README example looked off to me. require 'crystalruby' require 'benchmark' module Fibonnaci crystalize [n:
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The theory of concatenative combinators (2007)
This article attempts to outline, in informal terms, a new theory of combinators, related to the theory of Combinatory Logic pioneered by Moses Schonfinkel, Haskell Curry, and others in the 1930s. Although not essential, an understanding of the classical theory of combinators may be helpful (see the links at the…
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Basic MetaProgramming in Zig
Getting started with Zig's meta programming capabilities by leveraging a few useful functions
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Move semantics in Rust, C++, and Hylo
I just finished reading the paper Borrow checking Hylo . It outlines the basic design of Hylo . Hylo is an early-stage programming language, but unlike other contenders of C++, it provides memory safety like rust. Specifically it merges rust’s borrow checking ideas into the framework of moveable value semantics (MVS)…
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Types are a basic tool of software design (2018)
Static or dynamic, a program's design is written in its types.
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Enum class improvements for C++17, C++20 and C++23
The evolution of the C++ language continues to bring powerful features that enhance code safety, readability, and maintainability. Among these improvements, we got changes and additions to enum class functionalities across C++17, C++20, and C++23. In this blog post, we’ll explore these advancements, focusing on…
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Why Python's integer division floors (2010)
I was asked (again) today to explain why integer division in Python returns the floor of the result instead of truncating towards zero like...
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White space does matter in C23
Usually in C identifiers are not directly followed by strings. But when U prefixed literals were introduced in C. there still were some rare clashes with existing code. This happened were a macro U…
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Bringing Faster Exceptions to Rust
Three months ago, I wrote about why you might want to use panics for error handling. Even though it’s a catchy title, panics are hardly suited for this goal, even if you try to hack around with macros and libraries. The real star is the unwinding mechanism, which powers panics. This post is the first in a series…
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Build systems a la carte: theory and practice (2020)
Andrey Mokhov, Neil Mitchell, Simon Peyton Jones Published in Journal of Functional Programming, Vol 30(E11) View PDF Download BibTex