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The most popular blog posts about programming languages on Hacker News. 361 posts.
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Instruction explosion in Guile
wingolog: article: instruction explosion in guile
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The BEAM needs an APL-y language
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Union Types in Flow and Reason
Union types are powerful yet often overlooked. At work, I've been using Flow which thankfully supports union types. But as I've refactored more of our code to use union types, I've noticed that our bundle size has been steadily increasing!
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Java's Magic Sauce
Read Java blog posts to learn how to save on license fees, get better performance, use more secure Java, and optimize cloud costs.
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Clojure Don’ts: Lazy Effects (2015)
Laziness is often useful. It allows you to express “infinite” computations, and only pay for as much of the computation as you need.
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Crafting Interpreters: Strings
“Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?” The doctor cocked an eyebrow. “Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart unfettered.”
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C++17 Compiler Bug Hunt
Hey, if all I have is lemons – I have no choice but to make lemonade out of them! if reproducible serious bugs are ignored for many months, it indicates one ...
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JEP 335: Deprecate the Nashorn JavaScript Engine
Deprecate the Nashorn JavaScript script engine and APIs, and the jjs tool, with the intent to remove them in a future release.
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Representing the Impractical and Impossible with JDK 10 “var”
Having benefited from “var” for many years when writing c#, I’m delighted that Java is at last getting support for local variable type inference in JDK 10. From JDK 10 instead of saying ArrayList<String> foo = new ArrayList<String>(); we can say var foo = new ArrayList<String>(); and the type of “foo” is inferred as…
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Haskell’s State monad is not a monad (2014)
Haskell’s State monad has a shameful secret. It’s not a monad [ State monads don’t respect the monad laws in Haskell, Simon Marlow ] . Look:
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Value Type Hygiene
Briefly put, types in L-world are ambiguous, leading to unhygienic mixtures of value operations with reference operations, and uncontrolled pollution from null s infecting value code.
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Oxidizing Fedora: Try Rust and Its Applications Today
In recent years, it has become increasingly important to develop software that minimizes security vulnerabilities. Memory management bugs are a common cause of these vulnerabilities. To that end, the Mozilla community has spent the last several years building the Rust language and ecosystem which focuses primarily on…
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Common Lisp Standard Draft
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Nim language v0.18.0 released
The Nim team is happy to announce that the latest release of Nim, version 0.18.0, is now available. Nim is a systems programming language that focuses on performance, portability and expressiveness.
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Crystal 0.26.0 released
Crystal 0.26.0 has been released!
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Undershoot: Parsing theory in 1965
Jeffrey Kegler's blog about Marpa, his new parsing algorithm, and other topics of interest
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Mobile Smalltalk
I've been announcing the Open Beta release of my game HexSolve for Android and iOS. HexSolve was written in Smalltalk and people have been ...
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On Competing with C Using Haskell (2017)
Mark Karpov wrote in his article on Migrating text metrics to pure Haskell how he originally did foreign calls out to C for many of the functions in his text metric package, but now ported them to Haskell when he learned that Haskell can give you performance comparable to C.
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My Haskell Journey from C#
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Modern JavaScript Explained for Dinosaurs
Learning modern JavaScript is tough if you haven’t been there since the beginning. The ecosystem is growing and changing so rapidly that…
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Is Lisp Still Unique? Or at Least Different? (2002)
October 1997: It has been six years since I finished Paradigms of AI Programming (or PAIP ), and now seems like a good time to look back at how Lisp and AI programming have changed.
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PEP 572 – Assignment Expressions
This is a proposal for creating a way to assign to variables within an expression using the notation NAME := expr.