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A half-hour to learn Rust
In order to increase fluency in a programming language, one has to read a lot of it. But how can you read a lot of it if you don’t know what it means? In this article, instead of focusing on one or...
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Why I rewrote my Rust keyboard firmware in Zig: consistency, mastery, and fun
I’ve spent the last year building keyboards , which has included writing firmware for a variety custom circuit boards.
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Crystal 1.0 – What to expect
The release of the first major release of Crystal arrives after many years of hard work. With thousands of contributions from people worldwide, it was finally possible to find consensus for what truly mattered for 1.0 and what could wait for future releases. Getting here wasn’t an easy journey, filled with enriching…
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Signed Char Lotte
“signed char lotte” is a computer program written by Brian Westley and the winner of the “Best Layout” award in the 1990 International Obfuscated C Code Contest. The cleverness of the text is staggering. Superficially it reads as an epistolary exchange between two (possibly former) lovers, Charlotte and Charlie. At…
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Why asynchronous Rust doesn't work
This is old! When I wrote it, I was a very different person.As it turns out, growing up a bit made me care a lot less about the nuances of Rust programming.
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Tricks I wish I knew when I learned TypeScript
TypeScript is a big Superset of JavaScript which has many features which might not be shown in every beginner tutorial. This post has three of them to make your life easier learning TypeScript.
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Understanding Python through its builtins
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Ruby 3.1
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 3.1.0. Ruby 3.1 keeps compatibility with Ruby 3.0 and also adds many features.
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Go is not an easy language
Go is not an easy programming language. It is simple in many ways: the syntax is simple, most of the semantics are simple. But a language is more than just syntax; it’s about doing useful stuff . And doing useful stuff is not always easy in Go.
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All C++20 core language features with examples
Introduction
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Understanding Rust futures by going way too deep
So! Rust futures! Easy peasy lemon squeezy. Until it’s not. So let’s do the easy thing, and then instead of waiting for the hard thing to sneak up on us, we’ll go for it intentionally. That’s all-a...
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Erlang/OTP 24 highlights
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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Why I no longer contribute to Racket
Beautiful Racket
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Green vs. Brown Programming Languages
In this article, the author explores the concept of "brown" and "green" programming languages based on the Stack Overflow Devel...
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Maintain It with Zig
No matter what language you program in or what applications you use: everything you do with a computer today is powered at some level by a piece of C/C++ code.
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10 years-ish of Elixir
We are celebrating 10 years since the first commit to what would become Elixir.
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Compiling Rust is NP-hard
...though it's not the flagship borrow checking that's at fault. What I noticed, and would like to share with you today, is that the exhaustiveness checking performed by the Rust compiler on match patterns is a superset of the SAT problem.…
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What was the point of [ “x$var” = “xval” ]?
In shell scripting you sometimes come across comparisons where each value is prefixed with "x". Here are some examples from GitHub:
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Julia 1.6 Highlights
Some highlights of the Julia 1.6 release.
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To learn a new language, read its standard library
The best way to learn a new programming language, just like a human language, is from example. To learn how to write code you first need to read someone else’s code. But who is the best person to learn from? Which code should we read? Where should we look to find it?
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On Repl-Driven Programming
Once upon a time, someone with the handle “entha_saava” posted this question on Hacker News :
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Elixir 1.12
Elixir v1.12 is out with improvements to scripting, tighter Erlang/OTP 24 integration, stepped ranges, and dozen of new functions across the standard library.
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Ruby vs. Python comes down to the for loop
Contrasting how each language handles iteration helps understand how to work effectively in either.
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Tour of our 250k line Clojure codebase
At Red Planet Labs we’ve been quietly developing a new kind of developer tool for many years. Our tool reduces the cost of building large-scale end-to-end applications by multiple orders of magnitu…