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We all know that parsing is an important part of designing and implementing programming languages, but it’s the equivalent of Brussels sprouts: good for the diet, but a taste that only a select few enjoy. Unfortunately, I’ve come to realise that our general distaste for parsing is problematic. While many of us think…
What is the most beautiful piece of code you have ever seen? Not only it is subjective, "beauty" is also a word that can mean a lot of things. If we were to be discussing of raw speed, I would bring up the Fast Inverse Square Root [1] . If we were to judge by aesthetic, my answer would be Andrew Kensler's, 1337 bytes…
Today we're excited to announce the release of TypeScript 3.9! If you're unfamiliar with TypeScript, it's a language that builds on JavaScript by adding
Shadertoy is a wonderful tool which lets users create and share a type of program called a fragment shader online. The true magic of shadertoy is its community of very talented graphics programmers who build incredible works of art despite having access to only a sliver of the traditional graphics pipeline.
F is a pure functional concatenative language originally designed as an extension of False . F contains the list-operations of K3 and the dip combinator of Joy . Floating-point and symbolic datatypes are supported. One-time assignment is enforced in syntax. A theory of function-valence and -charge is outlined. F also…
Who framed Roger Rabbit? Talking about Software Development is about using frames. The prevalent "Backlog" frame is bad for the company and bad for developers.
There are too many packages and too many dependencies, too deeply nested. Can we measure the problem? And what do we do about it?
At Mozilla, we want the web to be capable of running high-performance applications so that users and content authors can choose the safety, agency, and openness of the web platform. ...
Discover more about what's new at AWS with AWS CloudFormation now supports blue/green deployments for Amazon ECS
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As a company grows, people and projects change. To continue to nurture the culture we want at GitHub, we’ve found it useful to remind ourselves what we aim for when…
You can now create organization secrets, reducing the need to duplicate secrets across repositories. Access policies let you control which repositories have access to the organization secret Updating a secret…
I’ve been learning Rust for the past twenty days or so, working through the Blandy & Orendorff book, coding up things as I go. Once I got into playing with Rust traits and closures and as…
Searching for the best legally free Python books can be overwhelming with so many broken links and outdated resources. This curated list provides over 80 high-q...
...and the crucial role it plays in modern operating systems.
Django is currently the most commonly used full-stack web framework for Python. It has been around for a good 15 years, emerging as a winner from a period in which Python was already mature, but its web development tools were comparatively much more immature and fragmented.
This week, we're releasing GTK 3.99, which can only mean one thing: GTK4 is getting really close! Back in February, when 3.98 was released, we outlined the features that we wanted to land before making a feature-complete 3.99 release. This was the list: Event controllers for keyboard shortcuts Movable popovers…
Get started with the new exciting APIs introduced with .NET 5.0. Understand the intention of engineers that added them.
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This post will describe my recent work on Cranelift as part of my day job at Mozilla. In this post, I will set some context and describe the instruction selection problem. In particular, I’ll talk about a revamp to the instruction selector and backend framework in general that we’ve been working on.
An analysis of the results from the 2019 Go Developer Survey.
