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Nim (formerly Nimrod) 0.10.2 released
The Nim programming language is a concise, fast programming language that compiles to C, C++ and JavaScript.
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The most popular blog posts about programming languages on Hacker News. 313 posts.
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Functional Programming using JavaScript
There is no clear, widely-accepted definition of Functional Programming. It is a collection of related featues which cohere well into a very useful style of programming.
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Rust for functional programmers
This post follows up on OCaml for Haskellers from Edward Z. Yang (2010) and my own Haskell for OCaml programmers from earlier this year. Note The latest version of this document can be found online at https://dr-knz.net/rust-for-functional-programmers.html. Alternate formats: Source, PDF. Prologue Rust for C…
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OCaml: what you gain
Way back in June, in Replacing Python: second round, I wrote: The big surprise for me in these tests was how little you lose going from Python to …
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Writing C in Cython
For the last two years, I’ve done almost all of my work in Cython. And I don’t mean, I write Python, and then “Cythonize” it, with various type-declarations etc. I just, wri…
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Revenge of the Types
Some notes about what appears to be current trend of programming languages and my thoughts about it.
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PHP Next Generation
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
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Slimmer and faster JavaScript strings in Firefox
Since Brendan Eich wrote the first SpiderMonkey version in 1995, there have been many, many changes to its internal string representation. New string types like ...
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It's Go Time On Linux
Some interesting changes related to timekeeping in the upcoming Go 1.3 release inspired us to take a closer look at how Go programs keep time with the help of the Linux kernel. Timekeeping is a complex topic and determining the current time isn’t as simple as it might seem at first glance.
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Starting to Demo the Wolfram Language [video]
Stephen Wolfram introduces the Wolfram Language, with overview and demonstrations, in a video showing the power of this symbolic programming language.
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Introductions to advanced Haskell topics
Tour of watershed posts and papers for Haskell
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Official Go support
Go library for the Stripe API. . Contribute to stripe/stripe-go development by creating an account on GitHub.
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How recursion got into programming: a comedy of errors
By now it is difficult to imagine that once there was a time when the utility, and even the possibility, of recursion in programming was in doubt. Yet that was true of the programming community aro…
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Java Doesn’t Suck
I've been building enterprise Java web apps since servlets were created. In that time the Java ecosystem has changed a lot but sadly many enterprise Java…
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An Experimental New Type Inference Scheme for Rust
While on vacation, I’ve been working on an alternate type inference scheme for rustc. (Actually, I got it 99% working on the plane, and have been slowly poking at it ever since.) This scheme simplifies the code of the type inferencer dramatically and (I think) helps to meet our intutions (as I will explain). It is…
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Why your first Rust FizzBuzz implementation may not work
An exploration into some initially surprising but great parts of Rust (though you still may not like them).
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Julia is awesome, but..
Here's a language that gives near-C performance that feels like Python or Ruby with optional type annotations (that you can feed to one of two static analysis tools ) that has good support for macros plus decent-ish support for FP, plus a lot more. What's not to like? I'm mostly not going to talk about how great Julia…
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Java Pain
In 2014, it’s not OK if it’s hard for a developer to run a simple program from the command line.
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Julia 0.3 released
We are pleased to announce the release of Julia 0.3.0. This release contains numerous improvements across the...