#programming-languages

Simple Tips to Level Up Your Python Programming Skills

Simple tips for beginners to level up their Python skills (with interactive code snippets).

The Boehm GC Feels Like Cheating

Integrating garbage collection into a C application was almost too easy.

No More Primitives - What Python and Java Get Wrong

Many languages distinguish between primitives on the stack and objects on the heap. Others only have objects, and thus require primitives to aways be boxed. It turns out you can get the best of both worlds.

Lua Gotchas

Lua is an awesome language, but it has some annoying features that have caused endless frustration for me.

Unifying Dynamic Type Tests and Type Refinement

Some typecheckers understand dynamic type tests, thus avoiding downcasting.

Stackless vs. Stackful Coroutines

Coroutines can either be stackless or stackful. The terminology is somewhat confusing.

Automatically Promoting Constructor Parameters to Fields

When writing object-oriented code, you frequently want a constructor that takes in values and assigns them to object fields. Some languages reduce the repetition required for this.