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The Case Against Python 3
This document serves as a collection of reasons why beginners should avoid Python 3 as of November 22nd, 2016. I give two sets of reasons as I see them now. One for total beginners, and another for people who are more knowledgeable about programming. The first section attempts to explain the case against starting with…
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A convenient untruth: Array notation in C is a lie
Array notation in C is a lie! Sorry, dear reader*, but I cannot participate in this conspiracy any longer. You have been lied to, manipulated and coerced into thinking arrays are a construct of the C language. I feel it is my solemn duty to blow the whistle on this charade and expose the dirty secrets of C’s so-called…
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Gorgonia: a library like Theano or TensorFlow, mainly written in Go
I released Gorgonia on Thursday. Gorgonia is a library like Theano or TensorFlow, but mainly written in Go. It provides the necessary primitives for creating and executing neural networks and machine learning algorithms. According to cloc, these are the stats…
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Python, Machine Learning, and Language Wars (2015)
This has really been quite a journey for me lately. And regarding the frequently asked question “Why did you choose Python for Machine Learning?” I guess it…
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Having fun abusing the C language
I was looking through the book Expert C Programming again when I came upon their “light relief” section on The International Obfuscated C Code Competition . It’s a contest to write the most obscure code. That the language C has a competition where you write confusing code in it probably says something about the…
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OCaml 4.03: Everything else
In my previous post I wrote about Flambda, which is the single biggest feature coming to OCaml in this release. In this post, I’ll review the other features ...
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The Metaprogrammer
There are some topics which, if posted onto a forum or news site, cause programmers to spew out more blather than all the rest put together. Such topics include:
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New string formatting in Python
For a language that claims to focus on one right way to handle most situations, string formatting in Python is quite a buffet and it’s getting more diverse by the year. Starting with Python 3.6 we now have three ways to format strings (outside of simple concatinating things or using string.Template ):
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Nim Programming Language 0.14.0 released
The Nim programming language is a concise, fast programming language that compiles to C, C++ and JavaScript.
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What Template Haskell gets wrong and Racket gets right
Why are macros in Haskell terrible, but macros in Racket great? There are certainly many small problems with GHC’s Template Haskell support, but I would say that there is one fundamental design point which Racket got right and Haskell got wrong: Template Haskell does not sufficiently distinguish between compile-time…
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Understanding the Elm type system
Articles about bootstrapping a business in tech and web development by Adam Waselnuk. I’m a first-time founder who is bootstrapping a software business. Follow along as I learn!
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How to speed up the Rust compiler some more
I recently wrote about some work I’ve done to speed up the Rust compiler . Since then I’ve done some more.
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What Golang Is and Is Not
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Nuitka Progress in 2015 – Python Compiler
For quite a bit, there have been no status posts, not for lack of news, but a lot has happened indeed. I just seem to post a lot more to the mailing list than I do here. Especially about unfinished stuff, which is essentially for a project like Nuitka everything that’s going on.
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Python Patterns (2013)
python patterns diagram Over the past few months a number of people have come to me for guidance regarding various aspects of Python development, so I ...
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Type Punning Functions in C
C has a reputation for being inflexible. But did you know you can change the argument order of C functions if you don't like them?
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Introducing Verve: minimalistic, static, functional language
An experimental, minimalistic, static, functional language with zero dependencies.
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Announcing .NET Core 1.1
Updated (2017): See .NET Core Releases to learn about newer releases. We are excited to announce the release of .NET Core 1.1 RTM, the first “Current” release. You can start creating .NET Core 1.1 apps, today, in Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio 2017 RC, Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio for the Mac. We used the…
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It's Coming: The Great Swift API Transformation
Cocoa, the Swift standard library, maybe even your own types and methods—it’s all about to change, and you can help determine how.
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