Compiler link: https://github.com/c3lang/c3c Docs: http://www.c3-lang.org This is my follow-up “Show HN” from roughly a year ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27876570). Since then the language design has evolved and the compiler has gotten much more solid. Assorted extra info: – The C3 name is … Read more
GitHub – digitalblossom/alternative-frontends: Alternative privacy-respecting frontends for popular services {{ message }} You can’t perform that action at this time. You signed in with another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session. You signed out in another tab or … Read more
Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021? 47 points by pchm 2 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 38 comments Yesterday I ran `brew install virtualenv` and homebrew decided to upgrade postgres, ruby, youtube-dl, vim, rust, wget … Read more
A developer working on Unix in the 1970s would have interacted with it using a teletype: a machine with a keyboard and printer that could talk to a Unix computer remotely. Every keypress was sent over a physical wire, and … Read more
Suppose you want to pick an integer at random in a set of N elements. Your computer has functions to generate random 32-bit integers, how do you transform such numbers into indexes no larger than N? Suppose you have a hash … Read more
Lisp as an Alternative to Java In the October 1999 Communications of the ACM Lutz Prechelt had an interesting article entitled Comparing Java vs. C/C++ Efficiency Issues to Interpersonal Issues which asked 38 programmers to implement versions of a program … Read more
C3 is a C-like language trying to be “an incremental improvement over C” rather than a whole new language. C3 owes a lot to the ideas of the C2 language: to iterate on top of C without trying to be … Read more
21st Night: a studying app built around memory. In order for you to remember what you’ve learned, you need context and repetition. Trying to memorize an isolated equation 2 weeks after you learned it is way too difficult. 21st Night … Read more
arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. … Read more
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