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Go’s runtime C to Go rewrite, by the numbers
The start of September brings a close to the Go 1.4 merge window . From now until the release in December, only bug fixes and tweaks will be accepted.
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The most popular blog posts about programming languages on Hacker News. 5,634 posts.
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What Is Zig's Comptime?
Let's take a quick look at what compile-time execution looks like in Zig.
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Syntax across languages
Looking for operator or function names? Well have a look at the following and remember using existing one may ease the transition :)
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The Elixir of concurrency
Elixir is a fairly young language that was born when José and a few Rails developers tried to create a modern language optimized for concurrent, distributed, lightweight processes They wanted a modern Ruby-like syntax with a well-tested process ma
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Avoiding Reflection (And Such) in Go
So, as previous posts show , I like Go well enough. But as a computer-language polyglot, "Go programmer" is not part of my identity, and I try for a balanced view. It is very human to go overboard in both praise and criticism, both easy to find online.
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Threads (in Ruby): Enough Already
For a while now, the Ruby community has become enamored in the latest new hotness, evented programming and Node.js. It's gone so far that I've heard a number of prominent Rubyists saying that JavaScript and Node.js are the only sane way to handle a number of
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Resurrecting Fortran
We have finished the first chapter on a long journey of resurrecting Fortran: forming an initial core community of developers and users with enough momentum around the new Fortran website and projects at fortran-lang.org . There is still have a long way to go to, but this was a necessary (although not sufficient)…
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Writing A Lisp Interpreter In Haskell
An article describing the experience of writing a Lisp interpreter in Haskell.
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Come Break My Compiler
Don’t worry … it’s super easy 🙃
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The weird of function-local types in Rust
Next-gen compile-time-checked builder generator, named function's arguments, and more!
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Using Drop for safety in Rust
A deep dive into Rust’s vec::Drain and its Drop implementation as an example of how ownership prevents subtle bugs—memory and otherwise!
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Copy-and-Patch: A Copy-and-Patch Tutorial
If you can ctrl-c and ctrl-v, you can build a JIT.
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Why the Sorbet type checker is fast
This is the second in an indefinite series of posts about things that I think went well in the Sorbet project. The previous one covered our testing approach. Sorbet is fast. Numerous of our early users commented specifically on how fast it was, and how much they appreciated this speed. Our informal benchmarks on…
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Erlang/OTP 24 Release Candidate 1
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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Crystal 1.5
We are delivering a new release with several bugfixes and improvements. Below we list the most important or interesting changes, without mentioning several bugfixes and smaller enhancements. For more details, visit the changelog. Breaking changes are marked with ⚠️.
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Programming R at native speed using Haskell (2015)
Software Innovation Lab
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Revisiting 'Monadic Parsing in Haskell'
‘Monadic Parsing in Haskell’ is a short paper that laid the groundwork for libraries like Parsec and Attoparsec. Although it was published in 1998 (almost 20 years ago!) it has aged gracefully and the code samples will run with almost no changes. However, the state of the art has advanced since then and I think the…
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Property-Based Testing with PropEr, Erlang, and Elixir
Today, I'm publishing a new book: Property-Based Testing with PropEr, Erlang, and Elixir . It's my third book, the second one that is not self-published.
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Programming language notation is a barrier to entry
Research in programming languages offers powerful tools, but our systems of notation stymie outsiders. Can we change our notational approach and broaden our audience—without compromising on c…
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What's the point of std:monostate? You can't do anything with it
Not doing anything with it is exactly the point.
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The lack of a case against Python 3
A point-by-point rebuttal of Zed Shaw's Unicode and 2to3 complaints, with a trainer's view on which Python version to teach beginners in 2016.