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Blorp is a new programming language designed for high-performance and low-friction development, with features such as pure functions, explicit effects, and structured concurrency.
- 0.Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years (fagnerbrack.com)
SQL is the only programming language that can be learned once and used for 30 years without rewriting the mental model, due to its foundation in relational algebra, which remains unchanged.
- 0.BQN: What Is a Primitive? (mlochbaum.github.io)
BQN creator explains the reasoning behind choosing a set of primitives in the language, arguing that symbols are more precise and flexible than words.
- 0.Go: Support for Generic Methods (github.com)
The Go team has proposed adding support for generic methods, allowing for more flexible and reusable code. This change is part of the Go 1.27 release.
- 0.Rust Developers Flock to Ruby (xlii.space)
Rust developers are switching to Ruby due to its ease of use and large community, citing its terseness and strong support.
- 0.Coalton: Efficient, Statically Typed Lisp with Haskell and OCaml Ideas (coalton-lang.github.io)
Coalton is a statically typed functional programming language that combines ideas from Haskell, Scheme, and OCaml to improve Common Lisp. It has released a new language manual and was featured in a talk at ELS 2025.
- 0.Performance of Rust Language [pdf] (github.com)
A research paper on Hacker News compares Rust's performance to C and C++.
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Rapira is a programming language interpreter developed in the Soviet Union, with a GitHub repository containing its source code and documentation.