Why I love OCaml (2023)(mccd.space)

379 points by art-w 11 months ago | 270 comments

Personal blog post by Marc Coquand explaining why he loves OCaml, comparing it with Haskell and other languages he has used.

map::operator[] should be nodiscard(quuxplusone.github.io)

59 points by jandeboevrie 10 months ago | 53 comments

Object SHell(geophile.com)

17 points by fuzztester 3 years ago | 14 comments

Why Haskell?(gtf.io)

387 points by mesaoptimizer 2 years ago | 533 comments

A long personal essay arguing why Haskell is a practical, productive language for building real software like web servers, covering fewer mistakes and easier reasoning.

OBNC – Oberon-07 Compiler(miasap.se)

61 points by AlexeyBrin 1 year ago | 16 comments

Scheming a mise-en-abîme in BQN(panadestein.github.io)

38 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 0 comments

That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection(fhur.me)

546 points by fagnerbrack 1 year ago | 213 comments

A blog post arguing that many so-called abstractions in codebases are merely layers of indirection that add complexity and hurt performance without real value.

AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it(github.com)

747 points by wrxd 8 months ago | 581 comments

A closed GitHub pull request to matplotlib by user crabby-rathbun proposing to replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T for performance.

Map of GitHub(github.com)

651 points by vortex_ape 1 year ago | 100 comments

GitHub repository for anvaka's Map of GitHub, an interactive map visualizing GitHub repositories as countries based on shared stargazers.

Translating OpenStreetMap data to HTML5 Canvas with Rust and WebAssembly(mary.codes)

328 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 33 comments

Blog post by Mary Knize on rendering OpenStreetMap data to an HTML5 canvas using Rust and WebAssembly, for a revamp of her Disney wait-times project Line Buddy.

I built a programming language that LLMs can't use(blog.picheta.me)

244 points by dom96 8 days ago | 179 comments

Blog post by Dominik Picheta introducing KillSwitch, a programming language he designed so that large language models cannot use it.

Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web(hacks.mozilla.org)

613 points by mikece 7 months ago | 223 comments

Mozilla Hacks article by Ryan Hunt on why WebAssembly remains a second-class language on the web and how to make it first-class.