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Go 1.9 is released
Go 1.9 adds type aliases, bit intrinsics, optimizations, and more.
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Why physicists still use Fortran (2015)
“I don’t know what the programming language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called FORTRAN.” – Charles Anthony Richard Hoare, circa 1982 Fortran is rarely used today in industry — one ranking ranks it behind 29 other languages. However, Fortran is still a dominant language for the large scale…
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Writing a C Compiler, Part 1
This is the first post in a series on writing your own C compiler. Here are some reasons to write a compiler:
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Weird Python Integers
Python integers are stranger than I thought and playing with them can have surprising consequences.
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I tried Haskell for 5 years
One blogpost style which I find almost completely useless is “I tried Programming Language X for 5 days and here’s how it was.” Most of the time, the first impression is superfici…
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TypeScript 2.3
Today we're excited to bring you our latest release with TypeScript 2.3! For those who aren't familiar, TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that brings
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Three Months of Go, from a Haskeller’s perspective (2016)
This summer I’ve been interning at Pusher , and have been writing a lot of Go. It’s been a bit of a change coming from a Haskell background, so I decided to write up my thoughts now, at the end.
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Reason 3
Reason lets you write simple, fast and quality type safe code while leveraging both the JavaScript & OCaml ecosystems.
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Eight years of Go
Happy 8th birthday, Go!
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Rust as a gateway drug to Haskell
For work-related reasons, I had to recently get up to speed on programming in Haskell. Before that, I had very little actual experience with the language, clocking probably at less than a thousand lines of working code over a couple of years. Nothing impressive either: some wrapper script here, some experimental…
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What's Functional Programming All About?
There are many descriptions floating around the internet, trying to explain functional programming in simple terms. Unfortunately, most discuss details only loosely related to functional programming, while others focus on topics that are completely irrelevant. So of course, I had to write my own!
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The Incredible Growth of Python
We recently explored how wealthy countries (those defined as high-income by the World Bank) tend to visit a different set of technologies than the rest of the world. Among the largest differences we saw was in the programming language Python. When we focus on high-income countries, the growth of Python is even larger…
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Lisp Quickstart
George Mason University’s Department of Computer Science advances research and education in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, robotics, software engineering, and other computing fields. As part of Virginia’s largest public research university, the department connects researchers and students with government…
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3.5 Years, 500k Lines of Go
January 31st 2017 was my last day at Canonical, after working for 3.5 years on what is one of the largest open source projects written in Go - Juju .
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Making the move from Scala to Go
The Vista Group blog shares our industry-leading knowledge about cinema along with product and technology updates, case studies, and news.
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An Upgrade to SyntaxNet, New Models and a Parsing Competition
Posted by David Weiss and Slav Petrov, Research ScientistsAt Google, we continuously improve the language understanding capabilities used in applic...
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