Comparing compilation strategy in GHC, Mlton and Julia:
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I've seen several Go programmers cite garbage-collection as one of the things they like. Sounds like it is attracting C/C++ programmers.
The code itself matters far less than the team and the culture around it. Code will be different in 5 years, a quality culture should not.
Towards a Vim-like Emacs http://t.co/4aAXHtBAg8 Great intro for people of all backgrounds. I learnt a new command! kill-buffer-and-window
Bosun is an interesting new monitoring tool that treats metrics as an integral part of monitoring. http://t.co/GM8y17Smq2
Elasticsearch gets better with every release. 1.2 has been very reliable on our write-heavy cluster with big datasets (1.1 struggled).
I have helped several companies move to git, but nothing in the same league as ESR's amazing Emacs migration. http://t.co/MLbREbAz9j
Julia's a lovely language to hack on. I hope it gains the traction it deserves.
Writing decent indentation for a major mode is very hard. You need a non-trivial performant parser. I dare not look at perl-mode or C++.
I often get interesting emails when I blog.After my highlighting post, I learnt about nifty performance highlighting: http://t.co/Rp3sLxOoaH
"This patch is made 100% of completely irredeemable pure evil." Parsing elisp is actually pretty difficult.
"We had more luck than anyone deserves with things working out just enough to suffice and do what we did." -- Wozniak http://t.co/JWszdkYIVA
pcre2el has this awesome feature that converts huge emacs regexps into rx forms. It's indispensable. http://t.co/1Y2ZauUOXi
Fascinating and well-researched discussion of hashing approaches for Julia:
"bash is seldom compiled with ASLR" http://t.co/luCDG0pgow yikes!
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