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Introduction to Go Modules
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The most popular blog posts about programming languages on Hacker News. 361 posts.
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How a fix in Go 1.9 sped up our Gitaly service by 30x
After noticing a worrying pattern in Gitaly's performance, we uncovered an issue with fork locking affecting virtual memory size. Here's how we figured out the problem and how to fix it.
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D compilation is too slow and I am forking the compiler
While working on my current project, the constant creep of increasing compilation times was becoming more and more noticeable. Even after throwing my usual tools at the problem, the total time was still over 7 seconds.
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Announcing Dart 2 Stable and the Dart Web Platform
Signals the rebirth of Dart as a mainstream programming language for mobile and web development
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Plans for OCaml 4.08
With the external release of OCaml 4.07.0 imminent, we in Jane Street’s Tools & Compilers group have been planning what we want to work on for inclusion ...
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A Virtual Machine
Magicians protect their secrets not because the secrets are large and important, but because they are so small and trivial. The wonderful effects created on stage are often the result of a secret so absurd that the magician would be embarrassed to admit that that was how it was done.
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When FFI Function Calls Beat Native C
Over on GitHub, David Yu has an interesting performance benchmark for function calls of various Foreign Function Interfaces ( FFI ):
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Compiler basics: Lisp to Assembly
Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 1. lisp to assembly
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Core Erlang by Example
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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What Makes .NET Core So Special?
Technical blog of Microsoft certified developer James Hickey. Helping you reach the next step of your career as a software developer!
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Go Modules in 2019
What the Go team is planning for Go modules in 2019.
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Rust RAII is better than the Haskell bracket pattern
Last week, I wrote a blog post about ResourceT, and mentioned Rust's RAII being better than Haskell's bracket pattern. In this blog post, I demonstrate what this advantage is.
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This Old Lisp
This is the keynote talk that I gave at the 2018 European Lisp Symposium in Marbella, Spain.
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Modern C++ for C Programmers: part 5
Welcome back! In part 4 we went over the nitty-gritty of lambdas and how to store them, we explored the relation between the various C++ algorithms and containers, plus we took a stroll through some non-standard containers with exceptional capabilities. Note: part 1 is here. In this probably final part 5, we’ll be…
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The State of Rust on Haiku
The Rust programming language belongs to the category of modern programming languages that aim to provide a reliable and safe alternative to C and C++. In the past few years, few people have been working on getting the compiler, and the other build …
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Taking Go modules for a spin
Update: Since this post was written, Go 1.11beta2 has been released. I’ve updated the setup section to reflect this. Russ Cox kindly wrote to me to explain the reasoning behind storing the Go module cache in $GOPATH . I’ve included his response inline.
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GoAWK: an AWK interpreter written in Go
How I wrote GoAWK, how I tested it, and how I measured and improved its performance.
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Erlang OTP 21.0 is Released
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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My favorite things that are coming with Julia 1.0
If I were more musically talented I would be writing a song ♫ Arguments that are destructured, and operator characters combine-ed; Loop binding changes and convert redefine-ed… ♫ no none of that, please stop.
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How generics were added to .NET
Before we dive into the technical details, let’s start with a quick history lesson, courtesy of Don Syme who worked on adding generics to .NET and then went on to design and implement F#, which is a pretty impressive set of achievements!!
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What can we learn from how compilers are designed?
A case study on how compilers decouple components from each other using data.
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Why Use F#?
Why you should consider using F# for your next project
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Asterisks in Python
There are a lot of places you’ll see * and ** used in Python. These two operators can be a bit mysterious at times, both for brand new programmers...
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Go’s hidden pragmas
This is an article about compiler directives; or as they are commonly known, pragmas. It’s derived from a talk of a similar name that I gave last year at GopherChina in Shanghai.