Meet the AITO Dahl-Nygaard Prize Winners at ECOOP'25:
Mira Mezini, TU Darmstadt (Senior Prize)
Amir Shaikhha, University of Edinburgh (Junior Prize)
Check out their awards-citation:
https://2025.ecoop.org/track/ecoop-2025-awards
It's also the first time that the award named after the two eminent Norwegian pioneers will be presented in 
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I’ve cycled back to being obsessed with BQN (the absolutely gorgeous array language with a fascinating implementation).
(And also Elm for some reason. I don’t even like web development, I just find Elm very clean.)
I really enjoyed @Felienne's narrative about narratives about Computer Science yesterday. She applied some of the ideas presented in the Glaciers, Gender and Science paper (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0309132515623368) to her experiences in the Computer Science / Programming Languages communities. She's also starting a reading club to brainstorm the meaning (and the name?) of the field of "Computer Science".
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TrapC: A C Extension For the Memory Safety Boogeyman - In the world of programming languages it often feels like being stuck in a Groundh... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/11/trapc-a-c-extension-for-the-memory-safety-boogeyman/ #programminglanguages #softwaredevelopment #rants
I really like writing programs in Rust
I think I probably don't say this enough.
But it's really really nice.
OK, so I was persuaded enough to spend a couple of hours last night speed-running the Rust book and have decided that it steals enough concepts from God’s One True Language* for me to be interested. I also suspect that re-learning modern C++ will take me way longer…
* Haskell
Addendum to previous post:
Yes, I have heard of Rust, but have not yet made any serious attempt to understand it. I welcome experienced opinions on why it is great (beyond a superior memory management model). Even better is experience of using it cross-platform and from Python…
Dear Programming Interwebs, I am considering starting a New Thing that I would like to do in a "modern" compiled language, with strong cross-platform compatibility, good multi-threading support and interop with Python.
Should I learn C++ again? I have not used it in 24 years and, thus, am somewhat behind on recent developments…
The more I see Rust, Go, PHP and JavaScript, the more I wonder if I could make my own programming language with the best of each world.
Of course, not in this lifetime, but may be I could start making a wishlist.
Rails at Scale: Interprocedural Sparse Conditional Type Propagation
https://railsatscale.com/2025-02-24-interprocedural-sparse-conditional-type-propagation/?v=1
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://railsatscale.com/2025-02-24-interprocedural-sparse-conditional-type-propagation/?v=1
Strongly worded #medium #article on #programmingLanguages and #dialogue relating to
@nosrednayduj 's interview today concerning the concerning relative merits of #lisp and #java . Connection to strong echoes of points Masinter made about Medley Interlisp in an earlier interview.
Thoughts, commentary welcome here and on Medium.
@rat this article is specifically addressed to you, if you'll forgive me.
https://medium.com/@screwlisp/lisp-sm0lnet-fedi-medium-and-what-am-i-doing-95db1b51c328
Aus gegebenem Anlass: Deutsch als Programmiersprache macht die Dinge nicht gerade besser.
// Hauptabteilung.muckefuck
paket fu.balken;
öffentlich abteilung Hauptabteilung {
öffentlich verharrend leer haupt(Zeichenkette[]
beitrag) {
Gesamtheit.hinaus.druckZl(beitrag.länge);
}
}
@wingo is asking if anyone knows of a good course on the Nanopass framework (perhaps to recommend to others), but as usual he forgot to add hashtags to his post. So please reply to this post here: https://mastodon.social/@wingo/113956474737820425
The more I learn about other programming languages, the more I like #SwiftLang
#Programming #Coding #ProgrammingLanguages
Writing an #interpreter for #Brainfuck is almost a rite of passage for any programming language implementer, and it’s my turn now. In this post, I write not one but four Brainfuck #interpreters in #Haskell: https://abhinavsarkar.net/posts/brainfuck-interpreter/
Please boost for reach. If you have any questions or comments, please reply to this post.
Leading Programming Languages for Developers in 2025
https://www.biztechcs.com/blog/top-programming-languages-2025/ #ProgrammingLanguages #Programming #Coding
Hear, hear!
Strongly typed programming languages like Java fuss and fret and get bent out of shape about the type of a variable, which is basically something that tells the computer how the computer should handle the storage of that variable, and other technical details, for the computer to worry about, rather than the programmer.
Making the programmer explicitly upcast and downcast variables throughout the program adds more rigor and due diligence, sure. It adds even more bloat, complexity and points of failure.
In Perl, a dynamically typed language, you get arrays, scalars, and hashes, built-in. From there on, a scalar piece of data is just a string, to be decoded and parsed at the last possible moment. Otherwise, it's just a clearly labeled piece of data to pass around as needed. Defer trying to figure out whether it's a name, an age, a temperature, a sound file, or an image. Much simpler, more robust, programmer friendly and efficient.
