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Evaluating code at compile time is a capability that most, if not all, compiled programming languages possess, even if it can't be directly used by the programmer, but rather applied as an optimization. In this post, we'll explore a bit how to execute code at compile time in Nim, Zig, Rust and C++.
PHP 8.2 has a new randomizer engine, readonly classes, disjunctive normal form types, redacted parameters, performance improvements, and more.
The German school of Lisp is described by Kazimir Majorinc as a Spartan movement 1 in Lisp implementation. But let me be clear, the Lisps in question are not toys like the one’s littering the Lisp landscape (including my own ). Likewise, these Lisps are not libraries nor are they full-blown development ecosystems.
Code can really be written with any text editor that you're comfortable with. I tend to use Vim for quick edits and writing notes, and on L...
Some make the claim that "all languages depend on C"; 1 not only is this statement ill-typed, as implementations perhaps depend on other languages, and languages rarely do, but the statement would still be wrong if we correct it. Some will retort by writing parts of an implementation in another "system language"; more…
In this edition of our Haskell in Production series, we interview Fabian Thorand from Channable. Read the article to learn where Channable uses Haskell and why do they like it.
The official site of Zhenghao He, a software engineer and a TypeScript/JavaScript enthusiast.
Safely refactoring Ruby traditionally involves many incremental steps and feature flags. Sorbet and 100% branch coverage make it possible to refactor a lot of code safely.
My coding time this year has been invested in Quamina , an event-filtering library implemented in Go. Just in the last couple of weeks I spotted an opportunity to bring Go’s shiny new generics to bear, and not just anywhere, but for a central data structure. I got good results, but the process was sort of painful; I…
Version 12 of GCC implements much of the recent C++ standard, allows a number of previously prohibited constructs, and fixes some problematic behaviors.
C++20 is here and has been supported in MSVC since 16.11, but today's post is not about how you can use it, but rather how we used it to effectively
A review of the Odin programming language # Written by Dale Weiler Twitter GitHub Last updated Tuesday, September 10th, 2022 What is Odin # For those unfamiliar, Odin is a systems programming language that is more conservative in its design than other newer programming languages such as Rust, Zig, and Carbon. The…
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.NET 7 Preview 3 is now available with enhancements to observability, startup times, codegen, GC regions, native AOT compilation, and more.
Proponents of Zig claim that it does not have function colors. In this post, I attempt prove that it does.
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A new top-level syntax for programming languages is proposed to show advantages of this method. New syntax is arguably as simple, but more consistent, better preserves visual structure and solves some issues in code formatting.
Introduce new interfaces to represent collections with a defined encounter order. Each such collection has a well-defined first element, second element, and so forth, up to the last element. It also provides uniform APIs for accessing its first and last elements, and for processing its elements in reverse order.
We illustrate how we implemented UTF-8 support in alfred-margaret and give some insights into how we optimized our Haskell code for performance.
A public service announcement about the dangers of utcnow and utcfromtimestamp and the benefits of using their replacements.
I’ve seen a lot of misconceptions around what the unsafe keyword means for the utility and validity of Rust and its marketing as a “safe systems language”. The truth is a lot more complicated than a single pithy tweet can possibly sum up, unfortunately; here it is as I see it.
“A Modest Proposal For Preventing The Children of Rust Developers From Being Exposed To Procedural Macros”
Developer Spotlight is a series highlighting interesting Swift developers from around the world. This post is authored by Ron Avitzur, author of the Pacific Tech Graphing Calculator.
This is a talk and slides from Narrascope 2022, held online in July 2022. It completes a trilogy — I also spoke at Narrascope I and Narrascope II. I’m grateful to the IFTF, and particularly to Judith Pintar and Andrew Plotkin, for arranging the opportunity.
As someone who is interested in systems programming, and has experience working with Go, but not with C or C++1, The Odin language is a great fit. Proper systems language Odin is a systems langauge…
Rust is a programming language implemented as a set of open source projects. It combines the performance and resource efficiency of systems programming languages like C with the memory safety of languages like Java. Rust started in 2006 as a personal project of Graydon Hoare before becoming a research project at…
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