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Jul 22, 2017
Profound article on biohacking/cybernetics and how they reflect our hopes for the future: https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/21/15999544/biohacking-finger-magnet-human-augmentation-loss
Jul 22, 2017
I'm often surprised by simple devices that are fully programmable. E.g. HD controllers. At least GSM isn't so cheap that they're all online.
Jul 22, 2017
RFC: what do good docstrings look like for elisp primitives? https://github.com/Wilfred/remacs/issues/262
Jul 21, 2017
Fascinating discussion on the differences between a compiler's AST and IDEs (&comments from the IntelliJ Rust folks)
Towards a second edition of the compiler
Towards a second edition of the compiler
Rust has amazing potential to generate impressively fast projects. It seems like every week, we hear about new advancements in browsers, search engines, web servers, and more - all driven by the safety and performance that Rust provides. At the same time, compile times are a common complaint for the Rust compiler. As projects grow, the compile time pains also grow. This is doubly true for programmers coming to Rust from dynamic languages, and from languages with faster compile times. Just ...
Jul 21, 2017
Rust 1.19 is out! https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/07/20/Rust-1.19.html It includes unions, which are really useful when interfacing with C (like Remacs!)
Redirect
Jul 21, 2017
Reading some Haskell papers. The ideas are very interesting, but the fact they used a monadic interface is less so.
Jul 20, 2017
How do you compile multiple side effects, and warn the user appropriately?
The Old New Thing
The Old New Thing
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
Jul 20, 2017
Fascinating post on the huge range of testing techniques used on Rust, its stdlib, and rustc:
How Rust is tested
Jul 19, 2017
Metacircular interpreters leave much of the PL semantics ambiguous. Instead, write a metacircular compiler!
GitHub - kragen/stoneknifeforth: a tiny self-hosted Forth implementation
GitHub - kragen/stoneknifeforth: a tiny self-hosted Forth implementation
a tiny self-hosted Forth implementation. Contribute to kragen/stoneknifeforth development by creating an account on GitHub.
Jul 18, 2017
Jetbrains have done a survey with some cute stats: left-handed developers tend to be heavier keyboard users!
The State of Developer Ecosystem 2017 - Infographic | JetBrains
Over 5,200 developers share their insights on modern technologies, programming languages, frameworks, and tools of choice for software development.
Jul 18, 2017
Open recursion: the necessary features to build an OOP system: https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/08/26/what-is-open-recursion/
Jul 18, 2017
ES6 will support proper tail calls, whilst still offering reasonable tracebacks! https://webkit.org/blog/6240/ecmascript-6-proper-tail-calls-in-webkit/ (recursion is now more useful!)
ECMAScript 6 Proper Tail Calls in WebKit
ECMAScript 6 Proper Tail Calls in WebKit
Proper Tail Calls (PTC) is a new feature in the ECMAScript 6 language.
Jul 18, 2017
Great article on the design of Hypothesis, and its advantages over a purely type-driven, QuickCheck style approach:
Hypothesis
Jul 17, 2017
Are there projects still experimenting with compiler backend design? Many projects seem content with emitting LLVM IR.
Jul 17, 2017
Morgan Stanley have released an internally developed, JIT compiled PL based on LLVM! https://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5452
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