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The Future of JavaScript
The ECMA committee is working hard on designing the next version of JavaScript, also known as " Harmony ". It is due by the end of next year...
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The most popular blog posts about programming languages on Hacker News. 5,634 posts.
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A guide to closures in Rust
Understand how closures really work in Rust
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Simula – The forgotten programming language
What can it teach us?
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‘This’ in JavaScript
Master JavaScript 'this' keyword: Learn six contexts where 'this' changes value. Essential for OOP and frameworks.
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Clojure 15th Anniversary: A Retrospective
Clojure’s history is beautiful and simple in code. Nubank has a lot of reasons to say: happy birthday, Clojure!
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What’s the difference between an integer and a pointer?
The Standard does not require that implementations define intptr_t nor uintptr_t. It also does not require that implementations define integer-to-pointer conversions in any meaningful fashion unless they define those types. Conforming implementations are certainly allowed to document some integer-to-pointer…
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On Error Handling in Rust
My thoughts about error handling in APIs after writing a Redis library in Rust.
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Staring at the Sun: Dalvik vs. Asm.js vs. Native
As many of you are probably already aware, Mozilla has recently gotten into the mobile OS space with Firefox OS. Firefox OS is built using ...
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Forgotten Language: Jorf could have been Python or Ruby (2005)
A long time ago, there was no Internet. Ok, there was an internet, but I lived outside of it. It was 1992 or 1993, and I only saw my first webpage and send my first email in 1995. And I was perhaps…
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Bjarne Stroustrup Answers C++ Questions
Bjarne Stroustrup is the creator of C++. We got a chance to chat with him about the “golden years” of Bell Labs and the top C++ questions on Stack Overflow.
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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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Allocating on the Stack
A description of some of the recent changes to do allocations on the stack instead of the heap.
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Buffers on the Edge: Python and Rust
One of my least favorite kinds of bug is when two different systems are interacting and the result has bad behavior but it’s difficult to say which (if either!) system is at fault. This is one of those stories, about Python’s buffer protocol and Rust’s memory model.
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Racket v5.3.2
_posted by Eli Barzilay_ Racket version 5.3.2 is now available from http://racket-lang.org/ Core Libraries:: The new `math` library provides functions and data structures for working with numbers and collections of numbers. Functions include non-ele...
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Abstract Clojure
Depend on abstractions, not on concretions
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Understanding Llama 2 and the New Code Llama LLMs
In this edition of the newsletter, we direct our attention to one of the most prominent highlights of the summer: the release of the Llama 2 base and chat models, as well as CodeLlama, the latest highlights in the open-source AI large language model (LLM) landscape.
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Scastie: use any Scala compiler and Scala library in the browser
The Scala Center team is extremely happy to announce that Scastie is out of beta! That means anyone can use Scala in the browser over at scastie.scala-lang.org !
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Bril: An Intermediate Language for Teaching Compilers
I created a new intermediate language, called Bril, for teaching my funky open-source, hands-on compilers course. Because it’s for education, Bril prioritizes simplicity and regularity over more typical compiler priorities like performance and concision. This is an overview of Bril’s design, its quirks, and the…
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Things I hate about Rust, redux
Two years ago, I wrote a post with a handful of grievances about Rust , a language that I then (and still) consider my favorite compiled language.
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[ -z $var ] works unreasonably well
There is a subreddit /r/nononoyes for videos of things that look like they’ll go horribly wrong, but amazingly turn out ok.
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Our Experience Porting the YJIT Ruby Compiler to Rust
In this post, I want to give a nuanced perspective on our experience porting YJIT from C to Rust. I'll talk about the positives, but also discuss the things that we found challenging or suboptimal in our experience.
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I rewrote a Clojure tool in Rust
About two years ago, I wrote a quite complicated diff tool in Clojure. It was complicated enough that I struggled to fit the algorithm in my head and the inputs were large enough that I had to make some efforts to improve performance.
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