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OO in Python is mostly pointless
Note from 2025 me - I largely still agree with myself - and I still see the same crappy OO code getting pumped out. The final point in "Exceptions" is worth emphasising more.
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The most popular blog posts about programming languages on Hacker News. 399 posts.
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netaddr.IP: a new IP address type for Go
The Go standard library’s net.IP type is problematic for a number of reasons. We wrote a new one.
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Java Is Underhyped
The perspective of an ignorant computer science undergrad
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Stack Graphs
Precise code navigation is powered by stack graphs, a new open source framework that lets you define the name binding rules for a programming language.
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Gitlet.js – Git implemented in 1k lines of JavaScript (2015)
I wrote Gitlet to show how Git works under the covers. I wrote it to be readable. I commented the code heavily.
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Functors and Monads for People Who Have Read Too Many “Tutorials”
Title is literally true. This may not be the best place to learn about these concepts for the first time, because I'm going to focus on knocking down the misconceptions about them.
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Ink 1.0 – Open-source scripting language for interactive narrative
Independent developer of narrative games and interactive stories.
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Zig, parser combinators, and why they're awesome
In this article we will be exploring what parser combinators are, what runtime parser generation is - why they're useful, and then walking through a Zig implementation of them.
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Good and Bad Elixir
Words from Chris Keathley
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Logica, a novel open-source logic programming language
We present Logica, a novel open source Logic Programming language.
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Hello, HPy
Welcome to the shiny new HPy blog! HPy has been around for a while now. The initial discussion started during EuroPython 2019, in the good old times when we could still go to conferences and have real
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Learning Common Lisp to beat Java and Rust on a phone encoding problem
This may surprise you if you know me, but I’ve been learning Common Lisp for a few weeks now.
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A Review of the Zig Programming Language (Using Advent of Code 2021)
I’ve long thought that Zig was an interesting programming language, potentially more interesting than Rust in many respects given that Zig seems to be targetting a more modern C-like language replacement whereas Rust firmly looks like it is trying to take C++ out back like ol’ yeller. Rust is powerful, but the…
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PHP 8.1.0
PHP 8.1 is a major update of the PHP language. Enums, readonly properties, first-class callable syntax, fibers, intersection types, performance improvements and more.
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Pharo 9
Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment, focused on simplicity and immediate feedback.
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What's bad about Julia?
A mega-rant about all the things I find bad about Julia.
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Zig 0.9.0
Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust , optimal , and reusable software.
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State of the Common Lisp ecosystem, 2020
This is a description of the Common Lisp ecosystem, as of January, 2021, from the perspective of a user and contributor.The purpose of this article is both to give an overview of the ecosystem, and to help drive consolidation in each domain.Each application domain has recommendations for consolidating that part of the…
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“I Could Rewrite Curl”
Collected quotes and snippets from people publicly sneezing off or belittling what curl is, explaining how easy it would be to make a replacement in no time with no effort or generally not being very helpful. These are statements made seriously. For all I know, they were not ironic. If you find others to add ……