Interesting Links for April 2024

Here are some interesting things I recently read on the internet:

• A lazy and flippant classification of programming languages
  Bryce Kerley classifies some popular programming languages into categories with single letter names, with hilarious effects.

• The One Billion Row Challenge in Go: from 1m45s to 3.4s in nine solutions
  Ben Hoyt optimizes a Golang program to be thirty times faster.

• JavaScript Bloat in 2024
  Nikita Prokopov gets in touch with modern front-end development, and hates how bloated everything is.

• Why We Can’t Have Nice Software
  Andrew Kelley muses about the bad state of current software, and attributes it to human greed.

• Faster Shell Startup With Shell Switching
  Laurence Tratt uses profiling to figure out a trick to start shells faster.

• When would you ever want bubblesort?
  Hillel Wayne finally finds the answer to the age-old oft-asked question.

• You already know how to parse by hand
  Vincent Foley lets you know how to parse by hand, but then you already knew that.

• Compiling Lambda Calculus
  Colin James compiles Lambda Calculus to LLVM IR, for fun and no profit.

• Three ways of handling user input
  Patrick Dubroy surveys different ways of handling user input: callbacks, polling and magic.

• Why Static Languages Suffer From Complexity
  Tima Kinsart argues that statically typed languages are complex because metaprogramming them is hard.

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