Posts tagged programming-language

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Using Rust at a startup: A cautionary tale

The author (not me) says: “Right up front, I should say that Rust is very good at what it’s designed to do, and if your project needs the specific benefits of Rust (a systems language with high performance, super strong typing, no need for garbage collection, etc.) then Rust is a great choice. But I think that Rust is often used in situations where it’s not a great fit, and teams pay the price of Rust’s complexity and overhead without getting much benefit.”

The Hundred-Year Programming Language

A suprisingly thoughtful and detailed essay. I skimmed it. It's a bit of intellectual play because the question could be answered much more briefly. But the article does go deep and look at the question in many different interesting ways.

Better Ruby Presenters - Literate Programming

But I digress: objects > functions. At least in the context of getting stuff done in Ruby. This pretty much applies to most of the rest of the points in this post, so just keep that in the back of your brain.

repl.it - Java

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Ruby From Other Languages

If you are coming to Ruby from another programming language there are a lot of good tips here!

Best programming books EVAR!

A good list. I know every single one and would generally agree with it. Some books are too high in the list and some too low. But an excellent starting point.