Like many developers, I have been interested in Rust for quite some time. Not only because it appears in so many headlines on Hacker News, or because of the novel approach the language takes to safety and performance, but also because people seem to talk about it with a particular sense of love and admiration. On top of that, Rust is of particular interest to me because it shares some of the same goals and features of my favorite go-to language: Swift. Since I've recently taken the time to do try out Rust in some small personal projects, I wanted to take a little time to document my impressions of the language, especially in how it compares to Swift.

The tradition of a "Hello, World" program goes back at least to 1978. But for modern coders, what's an appropriate "Hello, World"?

This is an easy to understand example based tutorial aimed at those who know nothing of awk.

Python codes implementing algorithms described in Bishop's book "Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning"

Comparison among the number of command line options for various commands for v7 Unix (1979), slackware 3.1 (1996), ubuntu 12 (2015), and ubuntu 17 (2017).

The number of command line options has dramatically increased over time; they tend to have more options and there are no cases where programs have fewer options.

The C language is still prominent in the industrial embedded world, where “IoT” often refers to platforms much more limited than a Raspberry Pi. Often having to deal with such environments, we wrote the following informal explainer about C for internal company needs, and thought it could be of interest for more readers. This is basic material, mixing C and operating systems knowledge, aimed at readers with no or limited understanding of how you go from C source code to an executable. We could expand on many points, but for now we just share this meandering overview.

In order to increase fluency in a programming language, one has to read a lot of it. But how can you read a lot of it if you don't know what it means?
In this article, instead of focusing on one or two concepts, I'll try to go through as many Rust snippets as I can, and explain what the keywords and symbols they contain mean.

Ready? Go!

The C10k problem is still a puzzle for a programmer to find a way to solve it. Generally, developers deal with extensive I/O operations via thread, epoll, or kqueue to avoid their software waiting for an expensive task. However, developing a readable and bug-free concurrent code is challenging due to data sharing and job dependency. Even though some powerful tools, such as Valgrind, help developers to detect deadlock or other asynchronous issues, solving these problems may be time-consuming when the scale of software grows large. Therefore, many programming languages such as Python, Javascript, or C++ dedicated to developing better libraries, frameworks, or syntaxes to assist programmers in managing concurrent jobs properly. Instead of focusing on how to use modern parallel APIs, this article mainly concentrates on the design philosophy behind asynchronous programming patterns.

Ballerina is an open source programming language and platform for cloud-era application programmers to easily write software that just works.

Some hints: Naming Convention; Keyword First Syntax; Type Last Syntax; No Dangling Else; Everything Is An Expression, Including Blocks; etc.

Panolens.js is based on Three.JS (a 3D framework) with specific interest area in panorama, virtual reality, and potentially augmented reality.

There are lots of laws which people discuss when talking about development. This repository is a reference and overview of some of the most common ones.

Some examples: Hofstadter's Law, Kernighan's Law, Metcalfe's Law, Moore's Law, Murphy's Law, Occam's Razor, etc.

Learn Rust tricks and test your knowledge at the same time!

This article contains the flow-charts of many common programming language constructs that involve distinct combinations of gotos. The goto (or jump) is a basic building block of control flow, therefore most control flow constructs can be modelled using it.

ZZ (drunk octopus) a rust inspired transpiler and symbolic verifier to bare metal C.

The Odin programming language is designed with the intent of creating an alternative to C with the following goals: simplicity, high performance, built for modern systems, joy of programming.

The language borrows heavily from (in order of philosophy and impact): Pascal, C, Go, Oberon.

Niklaus Wirth and Rob Pike have been the programming language design idols throughout this project.

Then some little smarty decided that the operating system shouldn’t have all the fun and that developers should be able to create exception conditions and use this new architecture themselves, and in what is likely one of the worst things to ever happen to software development until pair programming came along, extended the new architecture with throw...