You can contribute to KDE with non-C++ code(rabbitictranslator.com)

86 points by jrepinc 2 years ago | 15 comments

Why is Jepsen written in Clojure?(aphyr.com)

415 points by manicennui 2 years ago | 210 comments

Kyle Kingsbury (Aphyr) blog post explaining why the Jepsen distributed-systems testing tool is written in Clojure, citing concurrency support and JVM interop.

A curmudgeon tries a language server(entropicthoughts.com)

97 points by crescit_eundo 2 months ago | 64 comments

Just how constexpr is C++20’s std:string?(quuxplusone.github.io)

112 points by jandeboevrie 3 years ago | 87 comments

Imagining a language without booleans(justinpombrio.net)

69 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 69 comments

The seven programming ur-languages (2021)(madhadron.com)

320 points by surprisetalk 3 years ago | 167 comments

An essay on the madhadron blog arguing that programming languages descend from seven fundamental 'ur-languages' that learners should explore, rather than near-identical mainstream ones.