Hacker News with Generative AI: Languages

Encoding Hangeul, Koreas writing system (brookjeynes.dev)
Hangeul (한글) is the modern writing system for the Korean language, created in 1443 by King Sejong the great, the fourth king of the Joseon dynasty1.

Languages, History, Korea

4 points by fanf2 20 days ago | 0 comments

Why Arabic Is Terrific (2011) (idlewords.com)
So I would like to stand up for the language nerds and give some reasons for studying Arabic that have nothing to do with politics.

Languages, Culture, Linguistics

21 points by Tomte 21 days ago | 1 comments

SPITBOL – high performance implementation of SNOBOL for x64 (github.com/spitbol)

Programming, Software, Performance, Languages

9 points by michaelsbradley 25 days ago | 0 comments

Náhuatl and Mayan Language Renaissance Occurring in Mexico (yucatanmagazine.com)
Mexico is home to 68 officially recognized Indigenous languages, spoken by nearly 7 million people, including Mayan and Náhuatl. Yet, despite their historical significance, many of these languages are in decline. Urbanization, globalization, and the dominance of Spanish and English are slowly but surely pushing them to the brink.

Languages, Mexico, Indigenous Culture, Cultural Preservation

154 points by bryanrasmussen 25 days ago | 65 comments

Choosing Languages (steveklabnik.com)
The other day, Microsoft announced that they are re-writing the TypeScript compiler in Go. A lot of people had a lot of feelings about this. I did too, but in a different way than many other people.

Programming, Languages, TypeScript, Go

16 points by steveklabnik 86 days ago | 1 comments

Library Sandboxing for Verona (github.com/microsoft)
This repository is attempting to build the base-line sandboxing mechanism for foreign code in Verona.

Programming, Security, Software Development, Languages

34 points by todsacerdoti 121 days ago | 9 comments

A Man Who Dreamed in an Unknown Language (medium.com)
In the 1950s, a six-year-old boy started having dreams about a man he had never met. This man was teaching him a language the boy couldn’t understand. Sounds unbelievable, doesn’t it? What if I told you this mysterious language turned out to be real? This is the incredible true story of Marc Liblin, the man who dreamed in an unknown language.

Dreams, Languages, True Stories

9 points by helioshacker 137 days ago | 11 comments

(Right-Nulled) Generalised LR Parsing (jeffsmits.net)
I hope you know a bit about LR parsing, otherwise this blog post won’t make much sense to you. You can read all about it in a previous post of mine. Today I want to discuss the problems with getting your language parsed in LR(1), or even LR(k). And how an old way to solve those problems is with a more powerful algorithm, that can parse any context-free grammar, no restrictions, no complaints about conflicts.

Programming, Computer Science, Parsing, Languages

3 points by thunderbong 145 days ago | 0 comments

Elixir 1.18 Is Here: What's New in the Latest Release (github.com/elixir-lang)
Elixir v1.18 is an impressive release with improvements across the two main efforts happening within the Elixir ecosystem right now: set-theoretic types and language servers. It also comes with built-in JSON support and adds new capabilities to its unit testing library.

Programming, Elixir, New Releases, Software, Languages

10 points by r0xsh 170 days ago | 0 comments

Scrabble star wins Spanish world title despite not speaking Spanish (theguardian.com)
Nigel Richards has also been champion in English and – after memorising dictionary in nine weeks – French

Languages, Games, Competitions, Achievements

160 points by n1b0m 179 days ago | 128 comments

Trivial REST server in various languages to compare (github.com/begoon)
The server listens on localhost:8000 and exposes /version endpoint.

Programming, Server, Comparison, Web Development, Languages

22 points by begoon 199 days ago | 19 comments

Polyglot Maxxie and Minnie (jcarroll.com.au)
Continuing my theme of learning all the languages, I took the opportunity of a programming puzzle to try out the same approach in a handful of different languages to compare how they work.

Programming, Languages, Comparison, Puzzles

6 points by 082349872349872 219 days ago | 1 comments

The Languages of English, Math, and Programming (github.com/norvig)

Languages, Programming, Computer Science, Math

161 points by stereoabuse 231 days ago | 47 comments

Teaching old assert() new Tricks (ngs-lang.org)
Many languages have assert(). This post describes how assert() is implemented in Next Generation Shell and how these aspects/features are consistent with the rest of the language.

Programming, Software, Languages

41 points by todsacerdoti 234 days ago | 13 comments

Gleam v1.5 Released (gleam.run)
Gleam is a type-safe and scalable language for the Erlang virtual machine and JavaScript runtimes. Today Gleam v1.5.0 has been published, featuring lots of really nice developer experience and productivity improvements, including several useful language server code actions. Let’s take a look.

Programming, Languages, New Releases, Erlang

14 points by bjarteaarmolund 261 days ago | 2 comments

Spanglish is the world’s fastest growing linguistic hybrid (elpais.com)

Spanglish, Languages, Linguistics, Culture

23 points by geox 370 days ago | 7 comments

Bend: A Parallel Language (pages.dev)

Programming, Languages, Parallel Computing

11 points by fofoz 387 days ago | 1 comments

ESpeak-ng: speech synthesizer with more than one hundred languages and accents (github.com/espeak-ng)