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Why you might want to choose Ceylon
The Eclipse Ceylon™ project encompasses development of the language itself (the language specification), the compiler frontend (typechecker), the compiler backends for Java and JavaScript
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The most popular blog posts about programming languages on Hacker News. 325 posts.
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Warming up to Go
Lately, as I’ve had more experience with it, I’ve started to warm up to the language Go (aka “golang”).
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A Path to Enlightenment in Programming Language Theory
Learning about Programming Language Theory can be a tough journey, particularly for programming practitioners who haven’t studied it formally. This resource is here to help. Please feel free to get in touch if you have ideas for improvement.
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Elixir – The next big language for the web
In this article I will explain whyI thinkthe Elixir language will make a bigimpact in the world of web development.
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Futures for C++11 at Facebook
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Running Rust on the Rumprun Unikernel
The Rust programming language has been able to run on bare-metal without the standard library for quite some while now. However, most Rust applications depend on the std crate, and therefore still need a full operating system to run.
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What makes Nim practical?
In my last post I showed what makes the Nim programming language special. Today, let’s consider Nim from another angle: What makes Nim a practical programming language?
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Best practices for a new Go developer
This year I had the privilege to organize GopherConIndia 2015 and also interview a number of Gophers.
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LLDB debugger is coming to Windows
We've spoken in the past about teaching Clang to fully support Windows and be compatible with MSVC. Until now, a big missing piece in this story has been debugging the clang-generated executables.
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Elixir Streams
I previously wrote about explicitness in Elixir. One of my favorite ways the language embraces explicitness is in its distinction between eager and lazy operations on collections. Any time you use the Enum module, you’re performing an eager operation. Your collection will be transformed/mapped/enumerated immediately…
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Where Rust really shines
Yesterday I was working on a small feature for the Rust compiler, and came across a situation which really showcased Rust’s awesomeness as a language …
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Russ Cox: Go, Open Source, Community
Why is Go open source, and how can we strengthen our open-source community?
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Larry Wall announces that Perl6 is ready for production
Hello. Ting, ting, ting. Attention! … ATTENTION! Thank you. Hi, I’m Camelia, if you don’t know me. (Or even if you do.) They told me I had to give a speech at Perl 6’s offic…
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Swift: Madness of Generic Integer
Handling Integers with Swift is not the easiest task. Especially when I need the generic function that can do some work on any kind of Integer. There are 11 Integer types that can be considered as Integers: * Int8 * UInt8 * Int16 * UInt16 * Int32 * UInt32 * Int64 * UInt64 * Int * UInt * Bit (I'll
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Understanding C by learning assembly
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
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PyPy 2.6.0 released
PyPy 2.6.0 - Cameo Charm We’re pleased to announce PyPy 2.6.0, only two months after PyPy 2.5.1. We are particulary happy to update cf...
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Perl 6 developers will attempt to make a Version 1.0 release by Christmas 2015
If you are reading this and you didn't hear that Larry bit the bullet, rolled the dice, flipped the coin, shattered the space time continuum...breathe... then you really are going to get a shock.
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D 2.069.0 released, compiler automatically ported from C++ to D
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A whirlwind tour of Go’s runtime environment variables
The Go runtime, in addition to providing the usual services of garbage collection, goroutine scheduling, timers, network polling and so forth, contains facilities to enable extra debugging output and even alter the behaviour of the runtime itself.