Programming in the Sun: A Year with the Daylight Computer I’ve been hinting on X/Twitter about my use of the Daylight DC-1 as a programming environment, and after about a year of use, it’s time to write about it in … Read more
6 min read Stephen Cass is the special projects editor at IEEE Spectrum. Since 2013, we’ve been metaphorically peering over the shoulders of programmers to create our annual interactive rankings of the most popular programming languages. But fundamental shifts in … Read more
When Code Gets Cheaper Every Day The genies are out of the bottle. Let’s take as a given that augmented coding is steadily reducing the cost, skill barriers, and time needed to develop software. (Interesting debate to be had—another day.) … Read more
Red is a programming language strongly inspired by Rebol, but with a broader field of usage thanks to its native-code compiler, from system programming to high-level scripting, while providing modern support for concurrency and multi-core CPUs. Red tackles the software … Read more
The ABC Programming Language: a short introduction (Also available in Japanese) New: The Origins of Python – An article by Lambert Meertens on the origins of ABC, and its influence on Python. New: Implementation for the Raspberry Pi!. The ABC … Read more
Aria is a modern, dynamic scripting language. It is meant to be a “sweet spot” language, easy to pick-up and enjoyable to use. It provides a familiar C-style syntax, with a feature set inspired by well-beloved languages such as Python … Read more
This piece was inspired by this post by Aaron Boodman. I remember myself as a calm, quiet kid, happiest when I had a bunch of wires in my hands. My parents used to give them to me as toys along … Read more
The fundamental principles needed to get a functional vehicle in your game. From my talk at the Better Software Conference on July the 13th, 2025. est. reading time: 45 minutes Watch the video of the talk here: Table of Contents … Read more
(def movies {:the-weather-man {:title “The Weather Man” :genres [:drama :comedy] :tomatometer 59} :nightcrawler {:title “Nightcrawler” :genres [:drama :crime :thriller] :tomatometer 95} :the-bourne-identity {:title “The Bourne Identity” :genres [:action :thriller] :tomatometer 84}}) (def genre->movie (reduce (fn [acc [id movie]] (let [{:keys … Read more
Taking another stab at the problem, another interesting direction that I see at the intersection of DSLs and LLMs is in investigating new ways of designing DSLs that work with LLM-based coding workflows. Let me start with a brief interlude … Read more