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The most popular blog posts about programming languages on Hacker News. 427 posts.
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Welcome HN! Dark is a programming language, structured editor, and infrastructure—all in one—whose goal is to make it 100x easier to build backend services. Check out the website, our What is Dark post, and How Dark deploys in 50ms for more. Thanks for checking us out! Part of
I've been using zig for ~4 months worth of side projects, including a toy text editor and an interpreter for a relational language . I've written ~10kloc.
Today we're proud to release TypeScript 4.1! If you're unfamiliar with TypeScript, it's a language that builds on JavaScript by adding syntax for type
Explore defunctionalisation as a tool for writing efficient software with insights from our own Patrick Stevens. See its benefits in code optimisation.
Exploring JVM specification and trying to write a little code to interpret a Java class like a real JVM.
I recently wrote my first 4K intro in Rust and released it at the Nova 2020 where it took first place in the new school intro competition. W...
Collection of small Haskell patterns with detailed description, examples and exercises
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 3.0.0-rc1.
PHP 8.0 brings features like attributes, union types, and the JIT compiler. It has some important breaking changes, and improved performance.
The Swift project is introducing new downloadable Swift toolchain images for Windows! These images contain development components needed to build and run Swift code on Windows.
Due to recent changes at Mozilla my time working on the Rust compiler is drawing to a close. I am still at Mozilla, but I will be focusing on Firefox work for the foreseeable future.
I have a particular view of Python performance from my experience on the Pyston project, and since this view is somewhat nonstandard I wanted to take some time to explain it and give a motivating e…
A gentle and beginner friendly overview of Rust Ownership Rules
The impact of PHP 8 on my code
Asana engineers are TypeScript fans, and we’ve learned a lot about where TypeScript shines and struggles. Here are 3 of our favorite TypeScript surprises.
I've recently read an article criticizing Rust, and, while it made a bunch of good points, I didn't enjoy it --- it was an easy to argue with piece. In general, I feel that I can't recommend an article criticizing Rust. This is a shame --- confronting drawbacks is important, and debunking low effort/miss informed…
This is the story of the rise and fall of Lisp at the Jet Propulsion Lab as told from my personal (and highly biased) point of view. I am not writing in my official capacity as an employee of JPL, nor am I in any way representing the official position of JPL. (This will become rather obvious shortly.)
With cljfx and Java 14 it’s finally here
A recent tweet by a friend of mine noted how the public interest in the Scala programming language seems to have plateaued or waned, which matches my feeling of the latest trends and zeitgeist. This blog post will go into why I think that has happened, where Scala stands now, and what the future holds for the Scala…
Every now and then I like to think about topics that don't directly relate to my daily work. One of those topics has been parsers: back in January I wrote about byte-ordered stream parsing and how I think we can improve streaming parsing in Rust with a small set of API additions.
Rust has been Stack Overflow's most loved language for four years in a row, indicating that many of those who have had the opportunity to use Rust have fallen in love with it. However, the roughly 97% of survey respondents who haven't used Rust may wonder, "What's the deal with Rust?"
Both QBE and LLVM are compiler backends using an SSA representation. This document will explain why LLVM does not make QBE a redundant project. Obviously, everything following is biased, because written by me.
