Thought-provoking article: scale OS software by corporate backing, or monetise PR review, as merging PR labour is scarce! https://twitter.com/nayafia/status/906953748143935489
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Interesting SO topic on writing a good hash function for ints: https://stackoverflow.com/q/664014/509706 (tricky to handle ints divisible by a common factor)
Shower thought: are tuples less useful in PLs where the type system encodes the length of lists?
Interesting library for infix syntax in Common Lisp: https://github.com/rigetticomputing/cmu-infix (ironically I find it tricky to read,but I blame unfamiliarity)
Comment sorting is hard. Using points, content deteriorates as you approach the bottom. When should you stop reading?
Another really interesting feature of PIT: weight coverage based on how many calls required to reach the code!
Java is also exploring a train based release model! https://mreinhold.org/blog/forward-faster (I don't envy the complexity of releasing a PL with huge usage)
Pitest is a nifty mutation testing tool. It focuses on mutating expressions covered by unit tests, maximising speed! https://pitest.org/quickstart/basic_concepts/
I'd like autoformatters to make more elaborate changes than just indentation. Convert for loops to map, or inline trivial helper functions!
I frequently see blocks compared with anonymous functions, but they're not equivalent. In a block, you can return from the enclosing func.
helpful.el now links to the manual if a symbol is documented there! I've wanted this for ages -- discoverability!
Smalltalk With Style, a book showcasing Smalltalk best practices, is now freely available! https://sdmeta.gforge.inria.fr/FreeBooks/WithStyle/SmalltalkWithStyle.pdf
I will be attending @strangeloop_stl this year! I'm really excited for the talks and the variety of PL perspectives the attendees bring.
Nifty Emacs package of the day: beginend: https://github.com/DamienCassou/beginend (makes M-< much more useful, allowing moving to move places)
A useful reminder that TIOBE is extremely approximate!
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