What compiler intrinsics should you provide in a parallel programming language? When do they give you an asymptotic speedup?
A fun discussion for the Futhark programming language, including the *two* big-O measures for time!
https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2019-04-10-what-is-the-minimal-basis-for-futhark.html
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Blogging about my programming language project: choosing the basic syntax!
https://www.garden-lang.org/blog/syntax.html
The niche of short, environment-specific scripts, and the consequences for programming language design choices: https://brrt-to-the-future.blogspot.com/2021/03/why-bother-with-scripting.html
I've added syntax highlighting to the prompt of my programming language!
It's not strictly necessary, but it's nice to have. It caught a bug with lexing incomplete string literals too.