RFC: Programming Languages Course Reboot, 2026
Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It - …
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Prism: An Impure Functional Language With Typed Effects - Stephen Diehl
Personal blog of Stephen Diehl - Software engineer writing about technology, programming, and the future
Why the fuss about conversational programming?
First, there isn’t much fuss … yet. But there will be.
Unix system programming in OCaml
Translation by Daniel C. Bünzli, Eric Cooper, Eliot Handelman, Priya Hattiangdi, Thad Meyer, Prashanth Mundkur, Richard Paradies, Till Varoquaux, Mark Wong-VanHaren
Modular: The Claude C Compiler: What It Reveals About the Future of Software
Compilers occupy a special place in computer science. They're a canonical course in computer science education. Building one is a rite of passage. It forces you to confront how software actually works, by examining languages, abstractions, hardware, and the boundary between human intent and machine execution.
"Concatenative programming and stack-based languages" by Douglas Creager
We mourn our craft
I didn’t ask for this and neither did you. I didn’t ask for a robot to consume every blog post and piece of code I ever wrote and parrot it back so that some hack could make money off o…
Andrej Karpathy on Twitter / X
We'll be spending a lot more time trying to understand the outputs of language models. A few thoughts, tips & tricks:Writing. Something I've had success with: Ask your LLM to explain something in ASD-STE100, it's a controlled language specification originally developed for… pic.twitter.com/uMFWTcBCsl— Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) October 2, 2026
Software Survival 3.0
I spent a lot of time writing software with AI last year, and I had some pretty good successes, notably Beads and Gas Town. I wrote a whole…
Pony
An open-source, object-oriented, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language.
This is a blog post I have been considering writing for a long time.