Carbon is not a programming language (sort of)(herecomesthemoon.net)

137 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 68 comments

The two factions of C++(herecomesthemoon.net)

512 points by cyclopeanutopia 1 year ago | 581 comments

An essay arguing that the C++ community has split into two factions with diverging needs, ending hopes for a single dialect-free C++.

The Two Factions of C++ (2024)(herecomesthemoon.net)

50 points by signa11 2 months ago | 46 comments

How many options fit into a boolean?(herecomesthemoon.net)

46 points by luu 7 months ago | 20 comments

Rediscovering the Handcart(solar.lowtechmagazine.com)

26 points by jgrodziski 6 months ago | 6 comments

M/PC – A Concatenative OS(wiki.xxiivv.com)

71 points by caminanteblanco 3 months ago | 10 comments

Programming languages that blew my mind (2023)(yoric.github.io)

329 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 182 comments

A blog post by David Teller recounting the programming languages that changed how he thinks about programming over his career.

Programming Still Sucks(stvn.sh)

640 points by jeromechoo 5 months ago | 308 comments

A blog essay by Steven Langbroek titled "Programming Still Sucks," an 8-minute read on programming, leadership, and AI.

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.

Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code(ankursethi.com)

502 points by mpweiher 2 months ago | 413 comments

A personal blog post arguing that developers should manually retype code generated by LLM coding assistants to keep understanding it and avoid cognitive debt.

The seven programming ur-languages (2022)(madhadron.com)

321 points by helloplanets 6 months ago | 123 comments

Essay on the madhadron blog arguing programming languages descend from seven fundamental 'ur-languages' that learners should explore instead of similar mainstream languages.

We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own(hugotunius.se)

1941 points by K0nserv 1 year ago | 1130 comments

Blog post arguing what common debates about sideloading miss, prompted by Google's announced new restrictions on sideloading apps in Android.