Posts Tagged “Language Design”

Optional Non-Escaping Swift Closures (1)October 11, 2016
Real World Swift Performance October 7, 2016
Advanced Swift, Second Edition October 6, 2016
Swift 3.0 Unsafe World October 5, 2016
How to Save the Princess in 8 Programming Languages October 5, 2016
Option Sets in Swift October 4, 2016
What’s in a Swift Collection? September 29, 2016
Swift 3 Notes (1)September 20, 2016
Swift 3’s “Never” September 6, 2016
.NET/C# Generics History August 25, 2016
Looking Back on Swift 3 and Ahead to Swift 4 (1)July 30, 2016
Python Internals: PyObject July 29, 2016
End of Source-breaking Changes for Swift 3 July 28, 2016
Removing Bit Flags in Swift Option Sets July 27, 2016
Eleventh Hour Swift 3 Reviews July 26, 2016
Swift Type Aliases July 26, 2016
Swift Closure Capture Semantics July 25, 2016
Bridging Existentials & Generics in Swift 2 July 24, 2016
Exponential Time Complexity in the Swift Type Checker July 18, 2016
The Secret Life of Types in Swift July 18, 2016
Swift Classes to Be Non Publicly Subclassable by Default (11)July 17, 2016
Interviews: Kare, Bezos, Musk, Felleisen, Gruber July 2, 2016
Why Swift Ditched Tuple-to-Tuple Function Modeling July 1, 2016
Objective-C Class Properties July 1, 2016
Restructuring Swift Condition Clauses June 23, 2016
Increased Safety in Swift 3 June 21, 2016
Swift Type Erasure June 1, 2016
Swift Tuples Aren’t Equatable (11)May 24, 2016
C Compilers Break for Objects Larger Than PTRDIFF_MAX Bytes May 23, 2016
Dynamic Swift (14)May 21, 2016
Swift Assertions (2)May 20, 2016
ABI Stability Deferred Until After Swift 3.0 (5)May 17, 2016
Compile Time vs. Run Time Type Checking in Swift May 12, 2016
Demangling Swift With Swift May 9, 2016
Speeding Up Slow Swift Build Times (2)April 29, 2016
Swift Proposal: Mutability and Foundation Value Types (1)April 22, 2016
Swift Type-checking Performance Case Study April 21, 2016
Swift Asserts March 4, 2016
Swift Evolution Acceptances March 4, 2016
Why Safe C Is Sometimes Unsafe Swift March 3, 2016
Proposed New Swift Collections Model March 3, 2016
Swift Protocols With Associated Types (1)February 19, 2016
Not Too Late to Change February 19, 2016
Swift Evolution Proposals February 16, 2016
Swift Mailing Lists Are Self-Selecting (4)February 11, 2016
Swift Struct Storage February 11, 2016
From “Result” to “throw” and Back February 8, 2016
Swift Optimization Tips and Reference Counting February 3, 2016
Value vs. Reference in Swift (1)February 3, 2016
Seven Swift Snares (1)February 2, 2016
7 Scandalous Weird Old Things About the C Preprocessor January 25, 2016
Exploring Swift Dictionary’s Implementation January 23, 2016
Swift Named Parameters (3)January 20, 2016
NSStringFromClass and NSClassFromString in Swift January 15, 2016
Better Translation of Objective-C APIs Into Swift (2)January 13, 2016
Proposal: XCTest Support for Swift Error Handling January 10, 2016
Exploring Swift Array’s Implementation (1)January 8, 2016
Generic Collections, SubSequences and Overloading January 8, 2016
Swift 2.2 Release Process (3)January 7, 2016
Swift Bracing (7)January 7, 2016
Swift Proposal for Default Final (8)December 21, 2015
Swift Standard Library Protocols December 20, 2015
Swift Type Constrained Extensions December 16, 2015
Craig Federighi on Swift (2)December 15, 2015
Swift’s Lazy Weak References December 11, 2015
Swift Plans (3)December 9, 2015
Variable Capture and Loops December 3, 2015
The End of Dynamic Languages (8)December 3, 2015
Swift init() November 30, 2015
Favorite Terrible Programming Languages (2)November 30, 2015
Covariance and Contravariance November 29, 2015
How Swift Implements Unowned and Weak References (1)November 24, 2015
Where “where” May Be Used in Swift (1)November 14, 2015
Why Is Swift’s String API So Hard? November 6, 2015
How Swift Implements Generics November 6, 2015
Swift’s @noescape Attribute October 26, 2015
Empty Parentheses Are Not “No Parameters” in (Objective-)C (1)October 15, 2015
NSData, My Old Friend (1)October 11, 2015
Jitterdämmerung (1)October 8, 2015
What the Heck Is a Monad (9)October 5, 2015
Swift 2.1 September 24, 2015
Custom Swift Pattern Matching Operators September 24, 2015
Struct Semantics in Swift September 4, 2015
Why Dependent Types Matter September 3, 2015
Swift Protocols (5)September 1, 2015
Swift 2 Beta 6 (1)August 27, 2015
Lazy Filters and Maps August 22, 2015
Swift Funtime August 22, 2015
Swift Pattern Matching in Detail August 21, 2015
Go 1.5 August 20, 2015
Top 10 Worst C# Features (1)August 19, 2015
Generic “Functions” in Objective-C August 19, 2015
Testing Swift’s ErrorType August 19, 2015
A Eulogy for Objective-C (2)August 18, 2015
Objective-Swift (3)August 13, 2015
Swift Protocols, Arrays, and Casting (3)August 3, 2015
Swift Array Performance (8)August 1, 2015
Objective-C Improvements and Swift Interoperability July 31, 2015
UIKonf 2015 Videos July 30, 2015
Linked Lists, Enums, Value Types and Identity (2)July 27, 2015
Weak and Unowned References in Swift (4)July 24, 2015
Strings in Swift 2 (2)July 24, 2015
Dynamic Swift (9)July 23, 2015
init? vs. init throws (1)July 23, 2015
Perl 6 Due This Year (1)July 23, 2015
Higher Order Functions in Swift 2 July 22, 2015
Python 3.5: async and await (1)July 14, 2015
Swift 2: SIMD June 25, 2015
Swift Protocols Question (6)June 22, 2015
Other New Swift 2 Features (1)June 22, 2015
Swift 2 Error Handling, Continued (5)June 19, 2015
Swift 2 Error Handling in Practice (4)June 12, 2015
WWDC 2015 Links (8)June 9, 2015
MirrorType June 4, 2015
Why I Don’t Write Swift (4)June 4, 2015
Swift Subscripts Support Labeled Parameters June 2, 2015
LaunchBar Action Editor and AppleScript List Syntax (10)May 22, 2015
First-Class “Statements” (1)May 21, 2015
Which Features Overcomplicate Swift? (2)May 21, 2015
Swift: the Unused Optional Value Problem May 13, 2015
Why Lisp? May 9, 2015
Quoted Domain Specific Languages April 9, 2015
Custom Swift Switch Matchers (4)April 2, 2015
Why Overload Operators? (2)April 1, 2015
Swift Protocols and Generics (2)March 28, 2015
Simple Reflection in Swift March 14, 2015
flatMap and Swift 1.2 Betas 2 and 3 March 13, 2015
Core Data vs. ARC (1)February 28, 2015
Swift 1.2 February 13, 2015
Locks, Thread Safety, and Swift February 6, 2015
Awk in 20 Minutes February 6, 2015
Learn You a Haskell February 2, 2015
Swift Resistance (2)February 2, 2015
Dynamic Casting in Swift February 1, 2015
Weakness February 1, 2015
Some Notes on Rust, the Language February 1, 2015
Protocols and Swift February 1, 2015
Swift: No Macros, No Compromises (3)January 30, 2015
An Example on How to Use NSProgress (2)January 25, 2015
Swift Capture Lists January 24, 2015
Let’s Build Swift Notifications January 23, 2015
Real World Swift January 17, 2015
Proof in Functions January 13, 2015
Functor and Monad in Swift (1)January 13, 2015
Undefined Behavior in C January 13, 2015
Generating Go Code December 23, 2014
Tearing Down Swift’s Optional Pyramid of Doom (3)December 12, 2014
Strange Tales of Swift Initialization November 25, 2014
A Swift Corner Case November 25, 2014
Perl 6: Get Ready to Party (3)November 24, 2014
Swift Retrospective (2)November 21, 2014
The Point of Optionals (3)November 1, 2014
Lebeaupin on Swift (1)October 22, 2014
Mutable Collections in Swift October 19, 2014
Hypothetical Objective-C 3.0 (4)October 14, 2014
To Swift and Back Again October 9, 2014
Brad Cox Interview (2009) October 6, 2014
David’s Swift Dilemma September 25, 2014
A Warm Welcome to Structs and Value Types September 13, 2014
Swift 1.0 Performance and Compilation Times (4)September 13, 2014
RawOptionSetType September 8, 2014
Protocols and Assumptions September 2, 2014
Swift Default Protocol Implementations September 2, 2014
The Swift Wish List (3)August 25, 2014
Macro-like Syntax Extensions Through Pseudo-closures (1)August 24, 2014
Implicitly Converting Functions to Return Optionals August 24, 2014
Swift Function Currying August 23, 2014
Implementing a MyBool Type in Swift August 23, 2014
“It’s a Coup” (17)August 18, 2014
Changes to Swift in Beta 4 July 22, 2014
A Modest Proposal: C++ Resyntaxed July 19, 2014
Building assert() in Swift July 19, 2014
Swift In Flux July 11, 2014
Strings in Swift (1)July 6, 2014
Secrets of Swift’s Speed July 6, 2014
Swift Instance Methods Can Shadow Functions (1)July 6, 2014
Swift and Inheritance (4)July 2, 2014
The Case for Message Passing in Swift (14)June 27, 2014
Interesting Swift Features June 22, 2014
The Safyness of Static Typing (1)June 19, 2014
Swift Arrays June 18, 2014
The Legacy of GOAL June 18, 2014
Swift: Objective-C Without the Smalltalk (3)June 17, 2014
Instantiating Classes by Name in Swift (5)June 13, 2014
Swift Links (3)June 4, 2014
Python 3 and Unicode May 28, 2014
The Origin of Smalltalk’s Select, Reject, and Inject April 30, 2014
BASIC at 50 (1)April 30, 2014
How I Came to Write D April 8, 2014
Java 8 March 26, 2014
Introducing the Hack Programming Language March 20, 2014
Objective-Smalltalk (2)March 12, 2014
How to Succeed at Recursion Without Really Recursing February 27, 2014
Starting to Demo the Wolfram Language February 25, 2014
ARM Immediate Value Encoding February 14, 2014
NewtonScript and Newton OS Papers January 29, 2014
PHP Function Naming (1)January 27, 2014
Principles of Programming Languages 2014 January 24, 2014
Ruby Under a Microscope November 9, 2013
Why Maybe Is Better Than Null November 8, 2013
Why Array Indices Start at Zero (1)October 30, 2013
How Java’s Floating-Point Hurts Everyone Everywhere October 29, 2013
AppleScript and Mavericks (6)October 25, 2013
Postmodern Programming September 29, 2013
Why Mobile Web Apps Are Slow July 9, 2013
How Three Guys Rebuilt the Foundation of Facebook (1)June 13, 2013
C Quiz (3)May 31, 2013
The Terra Programming Language May 14, 2013
Ruby 2.0 February 27, 2013
Atomic Weapons: The C++ Memory Model and Modern Hardware February 11, 2013
Functional Reactive in the Netflix API With RxJava February 6, 2013
Dylan Programming Guide January 22, 2013
What Will Programming Look Like in 2020? December 24, 2012
C and Objective-C Modules Proposal (7)November 30, 2012
Go Bloviations September 29, 2012
Visi September 23, 2012
Theoretical and Practical Weaknesses of Objective-C September 15, 2012
Condition Handling for Non-Lispers September 6, 2012
C Is About Simplistic Memory Models (1)August 28, 2012
Copland 2010 Revisited (31)June 16, 2010
Woz’s Regret October 17, 2006
Smalltalk-80: Bits of History, Words of Advice (4)September 25, 2004
PHP 5 Object References (24)July 15, 2004
Perl vs. Python vs. Ruby (158)November 25, 2002

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