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Lesser known parts of Python standard library
Code level discussion of web scraping, gray hat automation, growth hacking and bounty hunting
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The most popular blog posts about programming languages on Hacker News. 327 posts.
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Unusual Raku Features
Junctions, whatevers, hypers, and more!
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Piccolo – A Stackless Lua Interpreter
piccolo is an interpreter for the Lua language written in pure, mostly safe Rust with an eye towards safe sandboxing and resiliency. It uses gc-arena for its garbage collection system, and in fact gc-arena was originally created as part of piccolo .
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The Swift compiler is slow due to how types are inferred
How a 10 year old design choice for Swift’s type checker still haunts us to this day
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The Rise of Worse Is Better (1991)
I and just about every designer of Common Lisp and CLOS has had extreme exposure to the MIT/Stanford style of design. The essence of this style can be captured by the phrase the right thing . To such a designer it is important to get all of the following characteristics right:
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8 months of OCaml after 8 years of Haskell in production (2023)
Dmitrii Kovanikov's Personas Web Space
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Crafting Interpreters: 640 Pages in 15 Months
My book Crafting Interpreters on programming languages is done. OK, OK. I know I said it was done like fifteen months ago . But now it’s really done. And by that I mean, the print, e-book and PDF versions are done. You can buy it . You can hold it in your hands. And I do mean “hands” plural. Because this little…
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Figma’s Journey to TypeScript
Figma's team recently converted one of its codebases from a custom programming language to TypeScript without disrupting a single day of development.
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Ada's dependent types, and its types as a whole
So I like to joke occasionally on the Fediverse that when looking at Wikipedia's list of programming languages supporting dependent types :
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SIMD in Pure Python
First of all, this article is an exercise in recreational "because I can" programming. If you just want to make your Python code go fast, this is perhaps not the article for you. And perhaps Python is not the language you want, either!
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The world's loudest Lisp program to the rescue
Programming blog of Eugene
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Rust needs a web framework
I like to make silly things, and I also like to put in minimal effort for those silly things. I also like to make things in Rust, mostly for the web, and this is where we run into a problem.
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Homoiconic Python
McCarthy's Lisp in Python lists
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Gleam Is Pragmatic
I’ve spent the past several years working with functional programming languages in my free time – primarily Haskell and OCaml. I love both languages but also find aspects of each frustrating. Haskell is terse and elegant with type classes providing a powerful mechanism for ad-hoc polymorphism. However, it can also be…
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A brief interview with Awk creator Dr. Brian Kernighan (2022)
Dr. Brian Kernighan is a Canadian computer scientist who contributed to the development of UNIX at B
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Coroutines and effects
For the past few months I’ve been mulling over some things that Russell Johnston made me realize about the relationship between effect systems and coroutines. You can read more of his thoughts on this subject here , but he made me realize that effect systems (like that found in Koka) and coroutines (like Rust’s async…
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A Lisp compiler to RISC-V written in Lisp
This is a simple experimental Lisp compiler, written in uLisp, that will compile a Lisp function into RISC-V machine code. You can run the compiler on the RISC-V core of a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (or another RP2350-based board):
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Zig's (.{}){} Syntax
A look at some unfriendly Zig syntax
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Lisp: Icing or Cake?
The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024 ended one week ago. 48 games were submitted, a new record for the jam! This past week has been a time for participants to play and rate each other’s games. As I explored the entries, I noticed two distinct meta-patterns in how people approached building games with Lisp. I think these…
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Crafting Interpreters with Rust: On Garbage Collection
I became interested in implementing programming languages a few years ago and discovered [Crafting Interpreters](https://craftinginterpreters.com/) by Bob Nystrom. At the time, I had experience with Rust and decided to use it to follow the book. Albeit, being a noob, I managed to implement a fully functional bytecode…
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Swift is a more convenient Rust
Mercy4D jadi lounge gaming digital buat yang pengen main dengan suasana lebih nyaman. Game online yang tersedia beragam, tampilannya enak dilihat, jadi mau jelajah sebentar atau lanjut lama tetap terasa santai dan nggak monoton.
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Janet for Mortals (2023)
I wrote a book. It’s called Janet for Mortals, and it’s free, and it’s on the internet, and you can read it right now. And you should read it right now, instead of reading this blog post, because this blog post is not very interesting if you haven’t read the book. Heck, this blog post is not very interesting even if…
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Weekend projects: getting silly with C
C is beautiful yet full of horrors. Here's to uncovering its hidden depths.
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What's New in POSIX 2024
In the 1950s, computers did not really interoperate. ARPANET has not yet happened (that would become a thing in the 60s), and every operating system was typically tied to the hardware that was meant to run on. Most communication actually happened over telephone, and no company was more present in that space than the…
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Why Safety Profiles Failed
As for dangling pointers and for ownership, this model detects all possible errors . This means that we can guarantee that a program is free of uses of invalidated pointers.
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OpenD, a D language fork that is open to your contributions
Contributing development work upstream to D leadership has always been a very frustrating process. While the oft-repeated claim that D is a closed-source language is not really true (the D-specific parts of the compiler were GPL'd as early as 2002, leading to an all-GPL compiler (what we now know as gdc) being…
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What you learn by making a new programming language
Every software engineer uses a programming language, usually multiple. Few of us make programming languages. This makes sense, because the work we need to get done can typically be done just fine in the languages that exist. Those already have people making them better. Let's focus on the task at hand.
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Pharo 12
Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment focused on simplicity and immediate feedback.