Best of 2018

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2018. 123 posts.

Programming Languages
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Advent of Nim

Saturday December 1st at 5 a.m. UTC will mark the start of the fourth incarnation of Advent of Code, popular programming contest started back in 2015. The author describes Advent of Code (AoC) as “a series of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels in any programming language you like”.

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Native Clojure with GraalVM

The newly-released GraalVM changes the status quo in the realm of JVM-based programming languages. In this instalment we’ll explore its impact on Clojure. We’ll start small, but by the end we’ll compile an entire Ring web application into a self-contained native binary.

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Zig 0.3.0 Released

Zig is an open-source programming language designed for robustness , optimality , and clarity . Zig is aggressively pursuing its goal of overthrowing C as the de facto language for system programming. Zig intends to be so practical that people find themselves using it even if they dislike it.