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A coding video that walks you through building a Neovim plugin that can do some interesting Docker actions.

We ran out of good names years ago. Then Java came along and we used up all the words beginning with J. Then the dotcom years scooped up all the domain names and all the twsted up …

An in-depth interview about Zig with Loris Cro of the Zig Foundation.

An interview with the creator of Gren, a new functional, fullstack programming language that branches off from Elm.

This is marvellous. IMO Functional has always been a bigger deal than Reactive. Great to see more of that pursuit of simplicity paying off.

Leading questions, I'm afraid. Yes, equality is still broken, maps are broken (and in new & interesting ways in EMCAScript 6), and the language is occasionally whitespace-sensitive…

Is equality still broken? Are maps still broken? Is it still a sporadically whitespace-sensitive language?

Writing JavaScript and feeling you're surrounded by errors is pretty normal. It's a hastily-designed language. There's no getting away from the fact that everything is going to fee…

"locally stateful, globally pure-functional" Can you expand on that, please? Because it seems to me that state fulness propagates up through the system. I can't imagine a system th…