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I noticed that handling the None variant of Option without falling back on unwrap() is a common papercut in Rust. More specifically, the problem arises when you want to return early from a function that returns a Result if you encounter None. It has …
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I'll definitely keep an eye on Crystal as it comes out of its beta phase. The syntax is familiar and easy to pick up and the performance is great.
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Earlier this year, the TypeScript team announced that we've been porting the compiler and language service to native code to take advantage of better raw
Štar is a concise and extensible iteration construct for Common Lisp which aims to be pleasant to use, easy to understand, fast if needed, general, and not to look like Fortran....
After a seemingly endless journey , the publication of Functional JavaScript is complete and books have found their way into peoples’ homes. Below is a list of useful links related to the book:
Enumerating and analyzing 40+ non-V8 JavaScript implementations
The terms lvalue and rvalue are not something one runs into often in C/C++ programming, but when one does, it's usually not immediately clear what they mean. The most common place to run into these terms are in compiler error & warning messages. For example, compiling the following with gcc :
Lua/APR is a binding of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) for the Lua programming language . APR powers software such as the Apache webserver and Subversion and Lua/APR makes the APR operating system interfaces available to Lua, serving as an extended standard library. Thus far the following modules have been…
Works On My Machine is the place where Cognitects reflect on tech, culture, and the work we do. The views expressed on Works On My Machine are those of the a...
This article is an attempt to better understand how the front-end of Python works. Just reading documentation and source code may be a bit boring, so I'm taking a hands-on approach here: I'm going to add an until statement to Python.
Vladimir Sedach is an active open-source Common Lisp developer and proponent, as well as a computing philosopher to some extent. At his car...
We're pleased to announce the 2.0 beta 2 release of PyPy. This is a major release of PyPy and we're getting very close to 2.0 final, howeve...
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This post is now a part of the official rust book In my previous post I talked a bit about why the RWlock pattern is important for accessing data, …
Years ago I planned to give a talk centered around exploring the Clojure source history to find interesting buried artifacts. In service to that goal I walked every commit in the repository to see what I could find. There were indeed interesting discoveries, but eventually my passion for giving the talk 1 dissipated…
As far as I know this is the first Haskell program compiled to Webassembly (WASM) with mainline ghc and using the browser DOM.
In the previous article we explored how the Go runtime bootstraps itself — how a Go binary goes from the operating system handing it control to your func main() running. During that bootstrap, one of the first things the runtime sets up is the memory allocator. And that’s what we’re going to explore today. Think of…
