Rust 1.0 is out! Great language, wonderful community, excellent package tooling. I'm excited to see where it goes!
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Wow, there are already Visual Studio plugins for Rust! http://t.co/Fy9QdAeLn2 -- A great omen for Rust on Windows.
I've tweaked my Emacs configuration default to github-flavoured markdown syntax for .md files. GFM is remarkably common these days.
Lies, damned lies, and floating point arithmetic.
OH: If premature optimisation is bad, and we should measure first, why not use bubble sort?
It's very rare for HTML/CSS rendering to not be break old sites, but it's interesting that JS changes more aggressively. Eg parseInt("010")
Working with Large ML Code Bases https://ahamsandwich.wordpress.com/2008/02/11/working-with-large-ml-code-bases/ Interesting discussion of the relationship of IDEs and community maturity.
Pharo's online API docs are pretty darn good, though still no substitute for the live environment: http://t.co/zM70FUhL8u
Awesome Emacs package of the day: togetherly https://github.com/zk-phi/togetherly -- lets multiple users edit a buffer together!
Today's I-wish-I'd-known-earlier of Emacs: map-query-replace-regexp. http://t.co/6smi9e8uln
Why the blub paradox makes it impossible to measure programming language usability: http://t.co/TI6fp1O2SE
$9 Linux PC with 512MiB RAM! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598272670/chip-the-worlds-first-9-computer It's amazing how close we are to ubiquitous computing and smart dust.
Today's ingenious Emacs package: syntax highlighting JS using tern!
Brushing up my Rust in preparation for the v1.0 release. The compiler errors are generally excellent.
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