Found a reliable way of segfaulting Emacs, without using threads/FFI! https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=25684 (last time my Emacs segfaulted was bad memory)
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Statically typed PLs can lead to a more interactive experience when writing code: the editor knows more! Not a REPL substitute though.
There's so little agreement on what's 'unacceptably proprietary'.
I believe FOSS is a good thing, so I regret when companies buy FOSS shops and the community forks. But is it economically rational for them?
brag: the Beautiful Racket AST Generator https://docs.racket-lang.org/brag/ (not only generating a parser from BNF, but syntax values with positions!)
32-bit x86 Position Independent Code - It's that bad https://ewontfix.com/18/ (makes a compelling argument for private-by-default I think)
I'm still not sure that coverage percentages are very useful. A good UI that shows which (and when) lines are covered is much more powerful.
Lisp is the only language I'm aware of that uses two comment characters ;; where one would do. I suppose C has // but / is not a comment.
Interactively decompiling bytecode to see if a refactoring is safe! Smalltalk guru meditation: https://www.mirandabanda.org/cogblog/2017/02/07/smalltalk-scanning-and-shcontrol-structures/
GitHub is announcing an upcoming change to its terms and requesting feedback: https://github.com/blog/2314-new-github-terms-of-service (genuinely caring what users think!)
Dear JavaScript Maintainers, https://thefullstack.xyz/dear-javascript-maintainers/ (great open letter that applies to the wider open source ecosystem)
Clojure provides arbitrary precision numbers, but prefers to overflow by default: https://clojure.github.io/clojure/clojure.core-api.html#clojure.core/*' (interesting tradeoff)
I'm impressed how easy it is to set up CI for Rust projects with Windows. I have my first green build! https://ci.appveyor.com/project/Wilfred/userinfo/branch/master
You can actually teach the Emacs byte-compiler to use specific opcodes for your functions! I've made dash.el faster:
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