#pldi — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #pldi, aggregated by home.social.
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Interesting:
“A Case Against Currying”, Emilia H (https://emi-h.com/articles/a-case-against-currying.html).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47477090
On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/w2x9dq/case_against_currying
#Programming #FunctionalProgramming #FP #Currying #Rants #PLDI #Haskell
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Nice article, but the all-lowercase titling is so jarring:
“Six Thoughts On Generating C”, Andy Wingo (https://wingolog.org/archives/2026/02/09/six-thoughts-on-generating-c).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46945235
On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/j8jnqq/six_thoughts_on_generating_c
#Programming #C #PLDI #Compilers #CodeGeneration #ProgramSynthesis
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“The Best – But Not Good – Way To Limit String Length”, Adam Pritchard (https://adam-p.ca/blog/2025/04/string-length/).
On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43850398
#Programming #PLDI #Strings #Length #Unicode #Characters #Bytes #Graphemes #UTF #CodePoints #I18N #Internationalization
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“The Long Season Of Langdev”, Michael Fogus (https://blog.fogus.me/langdev/long-season.html).
Via Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/xecakg/long_season_langdev
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See Also:
“Chapter 6: Lexical Analysis”, from “lcc, A Retargetable Compiler For ANSI C”, by Christopher Fraser & David Hanson (https://drh.github.io/lcc/documents/06lexical-analysis.pdf).
#Books #Compilers #Lexers #Programming #PLDI #LexicalAnalysis #Tokenization #Excerpts
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“Things Zig comptime Won’t Do”, Aleksey Kladov (https://matklad.github.io/2025/04/19/things-zig-comptime-wont-do.html).
On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43744591
On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/yhtpk0/things_zig_comptime_won_t_do
On /r/zig: https://old.reddit.com/r/Zig/comments/1k6d3rr/things_zig_comptime_wont_do/
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Intriguing, but a little extreme IMO:
“References Are Like Jumps”, Saoirse Shipwreckt (https://without.boats/blog/references-are-like-jumps/).
On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40349124
On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/eslpei/references_are_like_jumps
#Programming #Rust #Mojo #Hylo #PLDI #ProgrammingLanguages #References #Aliasing
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“Why Do We Need A [sic] Undefined Behavior Annex For The C++ Standard?”, Intel (https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tech-Innovation/Tools/Why-do-we-need-a-Undefined-Behavior-Annex-for-the-C-standard/post/1574397).
“P1705R1: Enumerating Core Undefined Behavior” (http://wg21.link/P1705).
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Always a pleasure to read this article (circa 1993) on the #history of #C by Dennis Ritchie – not sure why it’s on the front-page of #HackerNews today:
“The Development Of The C Language” (http://cm.bell-labs.co/who/dmr/chist.html).
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Very nice:
"The Rust I Wanted Had No Future", Graydon Hoare (https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/307291.html).
On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36193326
On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/47amaq/rust_i_wanted_had_no_future
On /r/rust: https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1415is1/the_rust_i_wanted_had_no_future/
#Rust #PLDI #ProgrammingLanguage #Design #BDFL #Community #Performance #Ergonomics
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“The Origins Of Python”, Lambert Meertens, Inference (https://inference-review.com/article/the-origins-of-python).
On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33750819
Via Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/ijd8h9/origins_python
#Python #ComputerHistory #ProgrammingLanguages #PLDI #Amsterdam #Amoeba #ABC #ScriptingLanguage