Ah, the riveting world of programming languages! 🤓 Let's all gather 'round as the tortured souls of #academia once again convince us that rehashing a thousand flavors of #mediocrity is the pinnacle of #innovation. 🎉 Quick, someone fetch the world's tiniest violin; this epic tale of #syntax and #semantics needs a soundtrack. 🎻
https://kirancodes.me/posts/log-lang-design-llms.html #programminglanguages #HackerNews #ngated

New blog post just dropped! Programming Language Design in the Era of LLMs: A Return To Mediocrity? kirancodes.me/posts/log-la... #ProgrammingLanguages #LanguageDesign #DSLs

For my next #compiler project, I want to write the optimization passes myself, but I don't want to deal with generating machine code for multiple platforms. So tell me #programminglanguages #plt #pldev #compilers fedi, what is an IR that I can target that has a non-optimizing compiler to machine code and supports multiple platforms? This rules out most popular IR like LLVM, C, QBE, Cranelift etc.

In short, I want something that does only instruction selection, register allocation and codegen for multiple platforms. I don't need optimization, so I expect this thing to be really small and lightweight, unlike LLVM, GCC etc.

Lisp-stat: Lisp environment for statistical computing

https://lisp-stat.dev/about/

#HackerNews #LispStat #Lisp #Computing #StatisticalAnalysis #DataScience #ProgrammingLanguages

Great Socratic question — this isn’t a well-defined term in #programming:

“What Is Systems Programming, Really?” [2018], Will Crichton (https://willcrichton.net/notes/systems-programming/).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44278689

On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/jrzwgy/what_is_systems_programming_really

#SystemsProgramming #ProgrammingLanguages

Guido discovers that having a mature programming language kinda sucks.

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https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/06/python-language-summit-2025-lightning-talks.html

“Does ‘worse is better’ still have a role today?” Guido contrasted early development to how Python is developed now: “features that take years to produce from teams of software developers paid by big tech companies. The static type system requires an academic-level understanding of esoteric type system features.” And this isn’t just Python the language, “third-party projects like numpy are maintained by folks who are paid full-time to do so”.

“Now we have a huge community, but very few people, relatively speaking, are contributing meaningfully.” Guido asked whether the expectation for Python contributors going forward would be that “you had to write a perfect PEP or create a perfect prototype that can be turned into production-ready code?” Guido opined for the “old days” where feature development could skip performance or feature-completion to get something into the hands of the community to “start kicking the tires”.

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This is a problem relatively few systems have managed to thread. If they are successful and used by a broad community, it is hard to make changes!

Part of this is that nobody wants to fork Python. The reason people are interested in building X into Python is so that people will use it -- it's technically very feasible to just fork Python and start hacking.

It's not just PL, either. Wikipedia shows some of the same dynamic, where what used to be "anybody can edit" has become a mass of insider-y conventions and policies. These aren't necessarily bad! But they are a inevitable symptom of success: changing course becomes much harder.

#python #ProgrammingLanguages

OxCaml, Jane Street's extension of OCaml is now open-source | Lobsters

https://lobste.rs/s/unsbmk/oxcaml_jane_street_s_extension_ocaml_is

#ocaml #ml #fp #functionalprogramming #programming #programminglanguages #plt

Mini-rust in Rust 033: Evaluating operators like += and *=

https://video.infosec.exchange/w/doNQbAwfR6NXwANpfaEYdf

For your #Entertainment I present ...

an #Epic #LinkedIn takedown of an ill-mannered diwmit who gloated about once having rejected a Ph-D-credentialed applicant who talked about something that is technically feasible and has been done due to it being "impossible".

https://www.kylheku.com/~kaz/epic-linkedin-takedown.html

#Humor #Programming #Java #ProgrammingLanguages #Lisp #OperatingSystems #Kernel #Trolls #Owned

Does any one have link to the source of the original Joe Armstrong’s JAM (Joe’s Abstract Machine) for the original #Erlang before BEAM came about? JAM was a stack machine, BEAM is a register Machine. Just trying to understand how it operated, I understand it did some interesting things with the stack. #stackmachines #abstractmachine #virtualmachine #programminglanguages

Ada Continues to Climb in June Tiobe Index and PYPL

https://forum.ada-lang.io/t/ada-continues-to-climb-in-june-tiobe-index-and-pypl/2126

#HackerNews #Ada #Tiobe #June #PYPL #ProgrammingLanguages #TechNews

Why Go is a good fit for agents

https://docs.hatchet.run/blog/go-agents

#HackerNews #WhyGoIsAGoodFitForAgents #GoProgramming #Agents #ProgrammingLanguages #TechTrends

Zig Devlog: Self-Hosted x86 Back End Is Now Default in Debug Mode

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2025/#2025-06-08

#HackerNews #ZigDevlog #SelfHosted #x86Backend #DebugMode #ProgrammingLanguages

Screw your favorite programming language

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://forem.com/danytulumidis/screw-your-favorite-programming-language-40c0

I wanted to know if I could still program in languages I haven't used in 10+ years, so I found a tech test on Glassdoor and did it six times... in six different languages.

🔗 More: https://danq.me/lru-cache-challenge

Here's what I learned:

🧠 Programming MORE languages can make you better at ALL of them

👍 With solid fundamentals, you never truly forget a language

😵‍💫 Switching between some pairs of languages causes brain-gearshift problems

#programming #programmingLanguage #programmingLanguages

In which I have Opinions about parsing and grammars

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/parsing/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/parsing/

#compsci #plt #programminglanguages

Oh, joy! Another programming language named after a prehistoric creature, because nothing screams innovation like dinosaur branding 🦕. Let's all pretend GitHub's AI Copilot isn't just an overhyped autocorrect for developers who can't be bothered to remember their own syntax. 🙄
https://github.com/dino-lang/dino #programminglanguages #dinosaurbranding #AICopilot #developerhumor #technews #HackerNews #ngated

Embrace the Leap - All-In

#developergrowth #abstraction #programminglanguages

Kotlin and Go couldn't be approaching their error handling pains more differently.

Go: https://go.dev/blog/error-syntax
Kotlin: https://medium.com/@internetcreationist/exploring-rich-errors-in-kotlin-a-game-changer-from-kotlinconf-2025-ea11ae23b585

TL;DR: While Kotlin is getting rich errors, Go is getting... nothing. And please stop asking for it, the community clearly won't come to a consensus.

Like it or not, `if err != nil` is here to stay.

#GoLang #Kotlin #ErrorHandling #LanguageDesign #ProgrammingLanguages #DevThoughts

I would love if programming languages had a fractional representation in hexadecimal for floating point numbers, like "0xA5.3F"; and if it were the default it would avoid headaches like "0.1 + 0.2 != 0.3"

#programming #programmingLanguages #SoftwareDevelopment