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Thoughts on Generating C
wingolog: article: six thoughts on generating c
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The most popular blog posts about programming languages on Hacker News. 233 posts.
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The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)
One keyboard bug three decades in the making
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Lisp's Influence on Ruby
Once I wrote users.select { |u| u.admin? }.map(&:email) and realized I’d written Lisp.
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Erlang/OTP 29.0
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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Type-safe HTML templating in Zig
I’ve done a lot of web development over the years. I started around the year 2000, just after PHP 3.0 was released and started taking over the web world. I’ve used all kinds of approaches for generating HTML: raw PHP, string concatenation in Python, Smarty templates in PHP, Template Toolkit in Perl, and Jinja/Django…
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C++ std::move doesn't move anything: A deep dive into Value Categories
Why std::move is just a cast, how it kills RVO if used wrong, and the mechanics of ownership transfer.
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How to make a fast dynamic language interpreter
This post is about optimizing an extremely simple AST-walking interpreter for a dynamic language called Zef that I created for fun to the point where it is competitive with the likes of Lua, QuickJS, and CPython.
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Parse, Don't Validate and Type-Driven Design in Rust
Applying the type-driven mindset to rust via the "Parse, don't Validate" pattern
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An incoherent Rust
Coherence and the orphan rules are a frequent source of complaints about Rust, and a common topic of language proposals. This post covers most of the existing proposals around coherence and my vision for how we should solve coherence once and for all.
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An agent in 100 lines of Lisp
Around 2000 I took an AI course at the University of Guelph. I don’t think I learned too much. We didn’t talk about neural networks, as far as I can remember. My end of term project was, I think, a pathfinding algorithm wearing an AI costume. There were certainly no discussions of transformers. No CUDA. No PyTorch…
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Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter
TrueType is a widely used vector font standard for rendering text in web pages, PDFs, operating systems, and applications. Familiar fonts like Helvetica, Garamond, and Monaco are all built on TrueType outlines. The format specifies a hinting interpreter intended to help outlines rasterize faithfully on low-resolution…
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Racket v9.2
_posted by Stephen De Gabrielle and John Clements_ We are pleased to announce Racket v9.2 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org/. As of this release:: The `match` form checks that when non-linear patterns (patterns where the same vari...
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RE#: how we built the fastest regex engine in F#
around a year ago, we built a regex engine in F# that not only outperformed the ones in dotnet, but went above and beyond competing with every other industrial regex engine on a large set of industry-standard benchmarks. it also supports the full set of boolean operators (union, intersection, complement) and even a…
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.NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types
In this post I discuss the support for union types released in .NET 11, how they're implemented, the choices made, and how to create your own
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Rhombus Language 1.0
Rhombus version 1.0 is now available! Install: https://rhombus-lang.org/download.html More information: https://rhombus-lang.org/ Why a new language? https://rhombus-lang.org/goal.html (copied below) Frequently Asked Questions: https...
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The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-source
Four and a half years ago, Modular made a bet: AI would not run on one kind of silicon forever, and the software stack would need to be rearchitected for a world of heterogeneous hardware and increasingly complex AI workloads.
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sp.h: Fixing C by giving it a high quality, ultra portable standard library
Over the past year, I’ve been working on fixing C by giving it a high quality, ultra portable standard library. It is not a simple wrapper on top of libc; it doesn’t depend on libc except when required to by the platform. To my knowledge, there is nothing like it.
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Union types in C# 15
C# 15 introduces union types — declare a closed set of case types with implicit conversions and exhaustive pattern matching. Try unions in preview today and see the broader exhaustiveness roadmap.
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Clojure 1.13 adds support for checked keys
Clojure 1.13.0-alpha1 is now available! Find download and usage information on the Downloads page.
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Some C habits I employ for the modern day
Despite it being the first “proper” programming language I learned—by reading K&R front-to-back no less—I don’t write C too terribly often nowadays. Playing resonite has gotten me into writing a load of C# for modding the game, and most of what I do day-to-day is automating the tedium on my computer, which gets…
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Jank now has its own custom IR
The jank compiler has a new super power. With that, we push jank to the limits to see who has the fastest fibonacci in the west.
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The Folders Programming Language
Created 2015 | Updated 2026 | One of Forty-Four Esolangs , by the creator of Rivulet and Velato
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Turbo Haskell
Exactly a week ago (as a joke), I started writing THC, my “Turbo Haskell compiler,” while on vacation visiting Bartosz Milewski.
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Visualizing Rust's Vtables: How dyn Trait Works In Memory
A follow-along series of coding experiments as I explore Rust's peculiarities, from a C++ developer's perspective.
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A perfectable programming language
At a party, Sydney Von Arx asked if I could name 40 programming languages. Yeah, that's the Bay for you. Racket, Agda, Clean, Elm, TypeScript, sh, ASP, Verilog, JavaScript, Scheme, Rust, Nim, INTERCAL, sed, Isabelle, Visual Basic, zsh, AlokScript, Coq, Idris, Hack, Prolog, Whitespace, PureScript, Go, Odin, Haskell…
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The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026
A lot of progress was made since last year, and I made some of it!
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How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language
Julia, the programming language that originated as a research project at MIT, has gained a loyal following among scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and others. The free and open-source language counts more than 1 million users, including people at thousands of companies and universities around the world.
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Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers
Modern Object Pascal Introduction: units, classes, generics, memory management, exceptions and more.