Best of 2022

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2022. 128 posts.

Programming Languages
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JEP 431: Sequenced Collections

Introduce new interfaces to represent collections with a defined encounter order. Each such collection has a well-defined first element, second element, and so forth, up to the last element. It also provides uniform APIs for accessing its first and last elements, and for processing its elements in reverse order.

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Sustainability with Rust

Rust is a programming language implemented as a set of open source projects. It combines the performance and resource efficiency of systems programming languages like C with the memory safety of languages like Java. Rust started in 2006 as a personal project of Graydon Hoare before becoming a research project at…

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Crystal 1.5

We are delivering a new release with several bugfixes and improvements. Below we list the most important or interesting changes, without mentioning several bugfixes and smaller enhancements. For more details, visit the changelog. Breaking changes are marked with ⚠️.

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Racket 8.4

_posted by John Clements_ Racket version 8.4 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org. Command-line Racket provides a new expression editor by default for its read-eval-print loop (REPL). The new REPL is based on the Chez Scheme expr...

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2021 at OCamlPro

OCamlPro was created in 2011 to advocate the adoption of the OCaml language and Formal Methods in general in the industry. 2021 was a very special year as we celebrated our 10th anniversary! While building a team of highly-skilled engineers, we navigated through our expertise domains, programming la...