A lovely demonstration of Objective-Smalltalk, and demonstrating some of the techniques that this style of PL enables: https://blog.metaobject.com/2019/02/a-small-and-objective-taste-of.html
miniblog.
Beating an optimising compiler at compiling division calculations: https://lemire.me/blog/2019/02/08/faster-remainders-when-the-divisor-is-a-constant-beating-compilers-and-libdivide/
(TIL that gcc, clang and libdivide use different techniques!)
DeepMind building an effective StarCraft AI, and why it's a hard game for a computer to play: https://deepmind.com/blog/alphastar-mastering-real-time-strategy-game-starcraft-ii/
(When you build an AI using a ton of self-play, it's pretty likely that you end up finding some novel strategies too!)
Computational photography: putting increasing smarts into camera devices: https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2019/2/5/cameras-that-understand
Making programming accessible and enabling makers: https://hbr.org/2019/01/what-will-software-look-like-once-anyone-can-create-it
(The analogy with IFTTT is interesting. Primarily it asks worthwhile questions!)
It seems to be easier to write a compiler that supports multiple languages than a VM.
The vast majority of VMs target a single language. Sometimes PLs are written to target an existing VM (e.g. Clojure), but it's rare to take an existing PL and build a production implementation.
Streaming income for record labels has reached a point that total revenue is growing!
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-05/vivendi-may-sell-universal-now-a-music-streaming-behemoth
Lying in TCP ACKs to treat it as a best effort protocol: https://eighty-twenty.org/2018/02/01/lying-to-tcp
My Linux systems used to use Xorg, but they all use Xwayland now. I'm not sure exactly when they switched.
That's a big a achievement! Replacing a major part of the desktop Linux stack (without hiccups) is no easy frat.
Spent some interesting time reading about the Secure Scuttlebutt protocol. The idea of syncing all the posts of a person or server ('pub') by gossip reminds me of FireChat, but I wonder how it scales.
Bootstrapping a compiler is rather like yoghurt: https://bootstrappable.org/
Moving from JS to statically typed Flow or TypeScript prevented 15% of bugs found in trunk: https://earlbarr.com/publications/typestudy.pdf
Interesting paper. Whilst I think this number might be used to justify both static and dynamic types, I'll take anything lightweight that reduces my bug count!
Surprised to learn that the majority of Amazon's income comes from AWS! https://www.lightreading.com/enterprise-cloud/infrastructure-and-platform/aws-drives-more-than-half-of-amazons-operating-income/d/d-id/749196
The future of Yarn: https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/6953
Breaking up into libraries to enable reuse, and porting to Typescript!
"Tokenization and parsing are some of the most expensive operations in compiling C++. In my own tests, parsing can consume up to 30% of compilation time for files with a large preprocessed output"
https://vector-of-bool.github.io/2019/01/27/modules-doa.html
Wowza! I thought this was a problem unique to JS.
Computer Science is increasing in popularity in universities: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/24/technology/computer-science-courses-college.html
At least in the UK, popularity plummeted for years after the dot com bubble. I wonder if we're at all time highs or not.
The downsides of writing a large project in Typescript: https://medium.com/javascript-scene/the-typescript-tax-132ff4cb175b
I don't share all the author's views, but makes interesting comments on what percentage bugs get caught by the typechecker, and type declaration verbosity/placement challenges.
Rust has a very reassuring compile process. After I've made the compiler completely happy, I have an unusually high level of confidence in my code.
(It might not be doing the right thing, but it's robust and pleasant to refactor!)
@rocx @cstanhope A great example where the full page is being used to show more content!
Examples from other languages:
PHP: http://php.net/manual/en/function.count.php
Clojure (unofficial): https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/count
C++ (admittedly this has two functions): https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/string/byte/strlen
Cute project of stock illustrated people, particularly useful for websites: https://www.humaaans.com/
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