Hacker News with Generative AI: Languages

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 7 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 16 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 40 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 49 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 70 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 89 days ago | 1 comments

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

Languages, Programming, Computer Science, Math

161 points by stereoabuse 101 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 105 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 131 days ago | 2 comments

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

Spanglish, Languages, Linguistics, Culture

23 points by geox 241 days ago | 7 comments

Bend: A Parallel Language (pages.dev)

Programming, Languages, Parallel Computing

11 points by fofoz 257 days ago | 1 comments

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