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In my book Understanding the Odin Programming Language I wrote that “Odin incorporates some of my favorite C best practices, straight into the language”. But I didn’t really elaborate on the details. Let’s do that here! This brings me to talking a bit about a previous job I had. Back in 2021 I worked at a place called…
I was introduced to Rust in 2018 and has been enamored since. Rust is a system programming language, much like C++. Unlike C++ though, being relatively new, its language design is more modern and sophisticated. Writing with can feel more like writing TypeScript or Haskell. Not surprising since, despite being a…
I had a vague idea that closures could have a variety of performance implications; I did not believe that so many of the chosen and potential designs for C and C++ extensions ones, however, were so…
Looking back at my year of Rust. Part reflection, part waymark.
Last week I’ve self-published my first book called “Writing An Interpreter In Go”, which you can get at interpreterbook.com . I want to tell you a little bit about why I chose to write this particular book.
Developing a Boids program from scratch without restarting it.
Learn Rust the Dangerous Way, Part 6
Lack of ABI stability, slow compile times, poor Xcode support, and more hold Swift back
One day before Rust 1.0 was released, I published a blog post covering the fundamentals of error handling . A particularly important but small section buried in the middle of the article is named “ unwrapping isn’t evil ”. That section briefly described that, broadly speaking, using unwrap() is okay if it’s in…
Many beginning Python users are wondering with which version of Python they should start. My answer to this question is usually something along the lines…
F# is a language that will make you sleep better
In September, 2004, I posted a query to the Types list asking people to name the five most important papers ever written in the area of programming languages. This page collects the responses I received. (A few are missing because I am still tracking down bibliographic information.)
Async/await syntax in Rust was initially released to much fanfare and excitement. To quote Hacker News at the time:
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
Introducing Ezno and the current state of the project.
Product updates, engineering notes, and perspectives from Sourcegraph.
The CircleCI blog is your home for DevOps, continuous integration and delivery, and engineering productivity. Explore tutorials, guides, and best practices.
Learning Clojure by building a digital Jackson Pollock. This article and the source code backing it can be found on GitHub . Below is an example of what we will be building, running the code found in this page.
I spent some more time with Python and started to realize that I needed something more. Here's a brief list of the reasons why I switched to Clojure.
Introducing a new programming language.
If Rust is to take on work previously reserved to C++, we need to know how well it does what C++ does best. What’s fast, what’s slow? What’s harder to do, what’s easier? I wouldn’t know how to look up answers for those questions, but I can write programs.
