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Crystal in Production: Diploid
At Diploid, we have been using Crystal for quite some time now. We would like to share our experience in this interview, answering questions relevant to companies wanting to use Crystal for production.
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The most popular blog posts about programming languages on Hacker News. 433 posts.
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Porting 4.5K lines of C to Go
Porting Yoga (Facebook's CSS flexbox implementation) from C to Go.
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Demangling C++ Symbols in Rust
I wrote a Rust crate to demangle C++ symbols: cpp_demangle. Find iton crates.io and github.
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Why Python Is Not My Favorite Language (2016)
Historical reference to Ian Denhardt’s Why Python Is Not My Favorite Language (2016-12-25), with archive and current documentation links.
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Is Clojure dying, and what has Ruby got to do with it?
The past week or so a lot of discussion and introspection has been happening in the Clojure community. Eric Normand responded to my one year Lambda Island post with some...
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Why I love Go
Many years ago, I've been waiting for a language like Go. Back then, I was primarily working with C (for microcontrollers), and C++/Java/Python/etc (for bigger machines). These are great tools, but still I was longing for compiled, statically typed, memory-safe (and garbage collected) language, which compiles for the…
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The ‘here is’ key
The Lear Siegler ADM-3A terminal is a very important artefact in computing history.
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Writing a C Compiler, Part 2
This is the second post in a series. Read part 1 here.
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‘Abusing’ the C switch statement – beauty is in the eye of the beholder
The C Language Before we start, let’s get something straight; for over 30 years now I have had a love-hate relationship with the C programming language. The ‘engineer’ in me[1] sometimes just cannot believe we are still using C as the dominant embedded programming languages after all these years, and yet, I also see…
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Improving Ruby Performance with Rust
After rewriting just a few of the slow methods for my Rails site in Rust
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PyPy2.7 and PyPy3.5 v5.7 released
The PyPy team is proud to release both PyPy2.7 v5.7 (an interpreter supporting Python v2.7 syntax), and a beta-quality PyPy3.5 v5.7 (an in...
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Mono's New .NET Interpreter
Mono is complementing its Just-in-Time compiler and its static compiler with a .NET interpreter allowing a few new ways of running your code.
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Clojure will affect the way you think about programming
I sometimes get asked for recommendations of what programming language to "learn next". It's great that folks appreciate the fact that being exposed to several sufficiently different programming languages is an important step on the path to programming enlightenment. But it's also true that, given limited free time…
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How I Start: Go (2014)
Go is a lovely little programming language designed by smart people you can trust and continuously improved by a large and growing open-source community .
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Ellie – An Elm Live Editor
Ellie puts the Elm platform in your browser so you can try Elm, share ideas, and bring your programs to life.
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Things that Idris improves things over Haskell
The 1.0.0 of Idris has been released just a few months back, just enough to start trying out the language and some of the possibilities dependent typing offers. But this post is not about dependent…