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by bakery2k 8y ago
> LWN.net deserves our support. Agreed. I subscribed a few months ago, in part because LWN.net seems to be the only publication providing significant coverage of the Python Language Summits.
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by bakery2k 8y ago
Guido has written a blog post explaining "Why Python's Integer Division Floors" [1]. Python also uses floor division, and the corresponding "sign-of-modulo matches sign-of-divisor", for floating-point numbers. The b
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by bakery2k 8y ago
> Python being designed as a systems language rather than a scripting language Interesting - I hadn't really noticed how pronounced this dichotomy within dynamic languages is. On the one hand there are small languages designed for e
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by bakery2k 8y ago
One issue with embedding Python is that it's difficult to sandbox - to securely limit what the embedded runtime, and hence (potentially malicious) custom functions, can do: > [The Python developers'] standard answer to "Ho
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The other (great) benefit of Python type annotations(medium.com)
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Tech Culture Shock: From America to the South Pacific, and Seattle to Chicago(penguindreams.org)
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Ask HN: Which version of JavaScript are you using for public websites in 2018?
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Guido van Rossum: Python 2 end-of-life will be on January 1st, 2020(mail.python.org)
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by bakery2k 9y ago
Spoiler: V8's default array implementation holds pointers to boxed objects [Questions 5 & 6], but there are special-case implementations for arrays of doubles [1] and 16-bit integers [9] (and presumably others). However, adding a s
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Ask HN: Have tracing JIT compilers lost?
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by bakery2k 9y ago
Thanks. I suspected as much for LuaJIT because, like a JavaScript engine, it supports JIT compilation of untrusted code. It's interesting to hear that PUC Lua also needs these mitigations even though it's only an interpreter. As f
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by bakery2k 9y ago
Mitigations for Spectre and Meltdown are also being added to the JavaScript VMs in Chrome [1], Firefox [2] and IE/Edge [3]. Are similar mitigations also needed in the VMs for other dynamic languages, such as CPython/PyPy, Ruby MRI
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Ask HN: What “new” programming languages will you be using in 2018?
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by bakery2k 9y ago
Really interested to see what approach Ruby takes when it comes to typing support. Matz has said that "optional typing should honor duck typing" [1], which will require a very different approach to the simple nominal typing that&#
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Armin Ronacher – A Python for Future Generations(youtube.com)
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Implementing Swift Generics (2017 LLVM Developers’ Meeting)(youtube.com)
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by bakery2k 9y ago
> "!" for modifying functions in place I think that consistently using "!" to mean "mutates in-place" would be a good convention for a language to use, but that's not what Ruby does. From Matz himself
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Steve Jobs muses on his own obsolescence and legacy in 1994(deathandtaxesmag.com)
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by bakery2k 9y ago
Are there tools for Node.js that can create standalone command-line apps? Can you recommend any in particular?
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Ask HN: Would you recommend sharing code between an in-browser app and a CLI tool?
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Understanding Asyncio in Python(medium.com)
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On Complete Gibberish: Language syntax that [Tommy M. McGuire] doesn’t like(maniagnosis.crsr.net)
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2017 Python Language Summit: Lightning Talks(lwn.net)
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by bakery2k 9y ago
fixing the gaps in Lua. Moonscript's [...] default local Roberto Ierusalimschy, the creator of Lua, believes that "Local by default is wrong." [1]. I don't necessarily agree that local-by-default is inherently wrong,
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by bakery2k 9y ago
Part 2: https://www.synopsys.com/blogs/software-security/swift-progr... Part 3: https://www.synopsys.com/blogs/software-security/swift-progr...
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Swift: Close to greatness in programming language design (Part 1 of 3)(synopsys.com)
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The removal of Python's Global Interpreter Lock – how's it going? (PyCon 2017)(youtube.com)
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by bakery2k 9y ago
0-256 not sure about negatives -5 to 256 (inclusive) [ https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Objects/longob... ]
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by bakery2k 9y ago
0 to 256 if I recall right -5 to 256 (inclusive) [ https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Objects/longob... ]
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The future is looking bright for Python(medium.com)
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