Posts tagged #programming-language

Clear — An intent-first agentic development language. Write readable specifications. AI agents turn them into real software.

Initially, we had languages like Fortran (1957), Pascal (1970), and C (1972). Fortran was designed for number crunching and scientific computing. Pascal was restrictive with respect to low-level access (it was deliberately "safe", as meant for teaching structured programming). So C won out as a language that allowed low-level/unsafe programming (pointer arithmetic, direct memory access) … Continue reading A brief history of C/C++ programming languages

The author (not me) says: “Right up front, I should say that Rust is very good at what it’s designed to do, and if your project needs the specific benefits of Rust (a systems language with high performance, super strong typing, no need for garbage collection, etc.) then Rust is a great choice. But I think that Rust is often used in situations where it’s not a great fit, and teams pay the price of Rust’s complexity and overhead without getting much benefit.”

A suprisingly thoughtful and detailed essay. I skimmed it. It's a bit of intellectual play because the question could be answered much more briefly. But the article does go deep and look at the question in many different interesting ways.

But I digress: objects > functions. At least in the context of getting stuff done in Ruby. This pretty much applies to most of the rest of the points in this post, so just keep that in the back of your brain.

A compiled language with Ruby like syntax and type inference

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Looks really cool. ML auto completion for any programming language. Must try.

Nice review of various programming language s including crystal

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If you are coming to Ruby from another programming language there are a lot of good tips here!

A good list. I know every single one and would generally agree with it. Some books are too high in the list and some too low. But an excellent starting point.

Some wise advice although for a funny language.

Groan but ok, funny