Best of 2010

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2010. 141 posts.

Programming Languages
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Clojure.rb

Call me crazy, but it seems that there is a large influx of Ruby programmers exploring the Clojure programming language. Based on the results of Chas Emerick’s great State of Clojure - Summer 2010 survey , 17% of surveyed Clojure users come from a Ruby background. Based on observed trends, I expect that percentage to…

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The Future of Compiler Optimization

Hello, My name is Nadav and I am a PhD candidate, researching compilers for embedded systems and high-level synthesis. This is an excellent post and I enjoyed reading it. I have a few comments. 1. I agree about verification and optimization joining forces. We already see it to some extent with compiler warnings. 2…