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Jun 27, 2024 at 16:00
What are the most interesting upcoming scripting languages? Scripting remains an important part of the programming language ecosystem. Optimise time to first feature. Allow mutation of the running system to experiment. Interactive inspection of data.

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Dec 23, 2023 at 07:40
An interactive version of the Go 1.22 release notes! https://antonz.org/go-1-22/ This is really elegant, I'd love to see more languages have this.
Go 1.22 interactive tour
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Isolated loop variables, range over integers, math/rand v2 and enhanced routing.
Aug 27, 2023 at 03:53
Implementing interactive languages, and the tradeoffs of interpreters, JIT compilers, and AOT compilers:
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Jul 24, 2023 at 06:21
Read-Eval-Patch loops and iterating on tests in a faster and more interactive manner:
My Kind of REPL
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I want to tell you about an idea that has had a huge influence on the way that I write software. And I mean that in the literal sense: it’s changed the way that I write software; it’s re-shaped my development workflow. The idea is this: you can write programs that modify themselves. And I don’t mean macros or metaprogramming or anything fancy like that. I mean that you can write programs that edit their own source code.