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TypeScript 3.4
Today we're happy to announce the availability of TypeScript 3.4! If you haven't yet used TypeScript, it's a language that builds on JavaScript that adds
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I coded a Pascal compiler for transputer as a teen in 1993
History of the development of my Pascal compiler for transputer when I was age 13.
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Hashmaps in Factor are faster than in Zig
Recently, I was looking at the Zig programming language . As I often do, I started implementing a few typical things in new languages to learn them. Well, one of them was super slow and Zig is supposed to be super fast, so I was trying to understand where the disconnect was and compare it to Factor !
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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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Mugo, a toy compiler for a subset of Go that can compile itself
Mugo is a single-pass compiler for a tiny subset of the Go programming language -- just enough to compile itself.
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PyPy v5.9 Released
The PyPy team is proud to release both PyPy3.5 v5.9 (a beta-quality interpreter for Python 3.5 syntax) and PyPy2.7 v5.9 (an interpreter sup...
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Working through 'Writing A C Compiler'
Some time ago I decided I wanted to create a c compiler for the Hack processor in the nand2tetris book. After several dead end attempts that I might describe later I found this book : Writing a C C…
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Stacked Borrows: An Aliasing Model for Rust
Type systems are useful not just for the safety guarantees they provide, but also for helping compilers generate more efficient code by simplifying important program analyses. In Rust, the type system imposes a strict discipline on pointer aliasing, and it is an express goal of the Rust compiler developers to make use…
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An Object-Oriented Language for the '20s
Object-oriented programming is out of fashion now, and it has been for a while. Rarely are new programming languages intentionally object-oriented. And there are good reasons for this: OO often requir…
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Overhead of Returning Optional Values in Java and Rust (2021)
Some programming languages like Java or Scala offer more than one way to express a concept of “lack of value”. Traditionally, a special null value is used to...
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Little languages are the future of programming
Little languages; what they are, why they matter and how they will shape the future of programming.
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Removing garbage collection from the Rust language (2013)
I've been floating ways to simplify the memory management story in Rust around the core team lately. Memory management is a contentious topic, since we've worked hard to get to the current state of things, and with the push toward stability lately, there is a (quite reasonable!) resistance to any changes at this…
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The Road to Scala 3
Together with the Scala 3 team at EPFL (aka the Dotty team), led by Martin Odersky, we have decided that, rather than developing Scala 2.14, our efforts should go to Scala 3 instead.
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Looking at Unity made me understand the point of C++ coroutines
I had seen many talks about coroutines but it never really clicked where I could use them outisde of async IO. Until I looked at how Unity uses them in C#.
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Seemingly Impossible Swift Programs
We will construct Swift programs that should be impossible to implement, yet somehow are not!
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Deprecating Raw Pointers in C++20
The C++ Standard moves at a fast pace. Probably, not all developers caught up with C++11/14 yet and recently we got C++17. Now it’ time to prepare C++20! A few weeks ago The C++ Committee had an official ISO meeting in Jacksonville, FL (12-17 March 2018) where they worked hard on the new specification.
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Functor-Oriented Programming
My style of Haskell programming has been evolving over the 15 years that I have been working with it. It is turning into something that I would like to call “functor oriented programming”. The traditional use of typed functional programming focuses on data types. One defines data types to model the data structures…
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Lua, a Misunderstood Language (2021)
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Why Perl Didn't Win
Perl used to be everywhere. Its fall from grace wasn't inevitable. Here's how it could have been prevented.