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Go has a problem. Go modules place a strange naming requirement on modules version 2 or greater. Module names on modules v2+ must end in the major version ala …/v2 , and communication of this rule has been weak. It's non-obvious, and the community at large does not understand it.
When I get stressed out and have too much to do, I have this paradoxical reaction where I escape from that by coming up with another thing to do. Usually it’s a tiny self-contained program that I can write and finish.
This blog was written by Bethany Griggs, with additional contributions from the Node.js Technical Steering Committee.
turtle 1.0 announcement post
Official website for flow-based programming
Today, Feb. 24th, is the 21st anniversary of Ruby,so we happily announce a new patch release of Ruby 2.1, Ruby 2.1.1.
I just think it's neat!
Exactly a week ago (as a joke), I started writing THC, my “Turbo Haskell compiler,” while on vacation visiting Bartosz Milewski.
ES modules bring an official, standardized module system to JavaScript. With the release of Firefox 60 in May, all major browsers will support ES modules, and there is current work ...
I last wrote in April about my work on speeding up the Rust compiler. Time for another update.
This is a guest blog post by Michiel Borkent.
A little while ago I wrote about 16bitjs, a 16 bit virtual machine written in javascript. It implemented a custom CPU architecture and assembly language, assembler, and debugger. I had the thought …
Ruby 3.0 is a lot faster than Ruby 2.0, with both incremental tuning and interesting new disruptive changes. 'Three times faster' is hard to define. JIT! Ractors! Autofibers!
One of the established and most popular programming languages is the C programming language. It is relatively easy to learn, and highly practical. Maybe surprisingly, the C programming language keeps evolving, slowly and carefully. If you have GCC 13 or LLVM (Clang) 16, you already have a compiler with some of the…
Go 1.18 Beta 1 is our first preview of Go 1.18. Please try it and let us know if you find problems.
A few days ago on Christmas day 2020, Matz released Ruby 3.0. Like every year, a host of interesting new features was included with the new version. Most articles I have read so far focus more on the new ways to introduce type hints and the Ractor system but for me the most interesting addition was the introduction of…
Providing up-to-date, convenient WebAssembly builds of Python with WASI support
This is a tutorial on building your own shell using Rust, in the spirit of the build-your-own-x list. Creating a shell is a great way to understand how the shell, terminal emulator, and OS work together.
Four years ago today, the Rust async/await feature was released in version 1.39.0. The announcement post says that “this work has been a long time in development – the key ideas for zero-cost futures, for example, were first proposed by Aaron Turon and Alex Crichton in 2016”. It’s now been longer since the release of…
Go is one of my favorite programming languages, but it is still far from perfect.
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
Today is TypeScript's birthday! But this birthday is a special one - 10 years ago today, on October 1st, 2012, TypeScript was unveiled publicly for the
