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Why was && chosen as rvalue reference in C++?
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How does a multi compiler programming language receive editor support?
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What are some examples of languages singularly for creating UI's?
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Why do so few source level optimizers exist?
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Java (Spring-Boot at least) promotes constructor injection. Angular (recent versions) in a variable member of a class. Why such conflict of practices?
Awarded Sep 9 at 18:37
What are some options for integrating subtyping with Damas-Hindley-Milner inference?
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What are the consequences of allowing breaking/returning from every statement?
Awarded Jul 30 at 19:56
What makes a language "golfy"?
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Why do most languages have a complete operator precedence?
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Why do most languages have a complete operator precedence?
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Why doesn't anyone build a floating-point type that supports an arbitrary exponent?
Awarded Jun 30 at 8:21
In Angular `@if` statement, when referencing the conditional expression's result as a variable, why do you put the `;` before `as`?
Awarded Jun 21 at 15:35
Is the read / write relationship fundamentally so special?
Awarded Jun 20 at 18:19
What are the pitfalls of using an existing IR/compiler infrastructure like LLVM?
Awarded Jun 8 at 7:09
Why doesn't lazy basic block versioning use type sets?
Awarded Jun 1 at 19:10
Expressing immutable, cyclic data structures
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Are there any languages where you can make a variable update whenever a dependent value changes?
Awarded May 16 at 13:48
Are there any languages where you can make a variable update whenever a dependent value changes?
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Are there any languages where you can make a variable update whenever a dependent value changes?
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Are there any languages where you can make a variable update whenever a dependent value changes?
Awarded May 15 at 16:31
Are there any languages where you can make a variable update whenever a dependent value changes?
Awarded May 15 at 15:02
Why would a language allow zero-size structs?
Awarded Apr 7 at 22:23
Alternatives to ANTLR 3 for LL(1) Grammar verification
Awarded Mar 21 at 18:32
What to do with productions that have multiple LHS?
Awarded Mar 5 at 20:17
Rationale for requiring struct prefix in C
Awarded Feb 16 at 7:04
Why did C99 have to add the underscored keywords for _Bool _Complex _Imaginary but not for inline or restrict?
Awarded Feb 7 at 17:53
Why did C99 have to add the underscored keywords for _Bool _Complex _Imaginary but not for inline or restrict?
Awarded Feb 6 at 4:06
Strings and arrays in Project Valhalla
Awarded Jan 18 at 15:51
Why do many programming languages use the symbol of two vertical parallel lines `||` to mean "or"?
Awarded Jan 11 at 18:45
In HTML5, why does the `<source>` tag use the `src` attribute in `<video>` and `<audio>` elements, but it uses the `srcset` in a `<picture>` element?
Awarded Jan 7 at 14:54
How to compile Discriminated Union types to Webassembly?
Awarded Dec 31, 2024 at 16:48
What's the rationale behind switch/yield in Java?
Awarded Dec 27, 2024 at 14:21
What are the ways to define optionally binary / ternary operators with shared keywords (e.g. for ... else) without unintended ambiguities?
Awarded Dec 26, 2024 at 19:35
Should a language have both null and undefined values?
Awarded Dec 26, 2024 at 5:54
Is there any particular reason to only implement 2 and 3 input hypot?
Awarded Dec 25, 2024 at 22:42
Should a language have both null and undefined values?
Awarded Dec 25, 2024 at 10:11
Why no "full-stack" SQL-like language?
Awarded Dec 18, 2024 at 18:18
Why no "full-stack" SQL-like language?
Awarded Dec 16, 2024 at 19:53
How might I implement a `typeid` operator (returning the type of its argument as something, presumably as a string) in my compiler?
Awarded Dec 15, 2024 at 6:15
What are the ways to define optionally binary / ternary operators with shared keywords (e.g. for ... else) without unintended ambiguities?
Awarded Dec 8, 2024 at 23:47
What are some options for adding a sound equality operator (or avoiding it) in a type system with subtyping?
Awarded Nov 6, 2024 at 23:21
What design choices inform whether a whole-program optimizing compiler is possible?
Awarded Nov 6, 2024 at 20:01
How to design a programming language that can simplify/optimize algorithms?
Awarded Oct 28, 2024 at 16:41
What are some options for adding a sound equality operator (or avoiding it) in a type system with subtyping?
Awarded Oct 24, 2024 at 6:53
What are some options for adding a sound equality operator (or avoiding it) in a type system with subtyping?
Awarded Oct 23, 2024 at 15:23
How are existential types different from Rust's traits?
Awarded Oct 23, 2024 at 2:35
What are some options for adding a sound equality operator (or avoiding it) in a type system with subtyping?
Awarded Oct 22, 2024 at 22:20
Are there any benefits to an Option type in a dynamically-typed language?
Awarded Oct 17, 2024 at 0:32
Rationale for requiring struct prefix in C
Awarded Oct 15, 2024 at 8:18
Why do "modern" languages not provide argv and exit code in main?
Awarded Sep 9, 2024 at 20:33
Why do "modern" languages not provide argv and exit code in main?
Awarded Sep 9, 2024 at 18:46
Why do most languages use the same token for `EndIf`, `EndWhile`, `EndFunction` and `EndStructure`?
Awarded Sep 9, 2024 at 18:34
Prior art for concatenative array language?
Awarded Sep 8, 2024 at 9:02
How is clang able to evaluate loops without getting stuck in an infinite loop?
Awarded Aug 7, 2024 at 10:15
Does the C# type of generics need compiling to multiple instances of target code?
Awarded Aug 6, 2024 at 21:53
How do typing rules look if most types are user-defined?
Awarded Aug 6, 2024 at 18:41
How is clang able to evaluate loops without getting stuck in an infinite loop?
Awarded Aug 6, 2024 at 15:50
What was the rationale for making realloc(ptr, 0) have UB in C23
Awarded Jul 28, 2024 at 16:32
Why would a language allow zero-size structs?
Awarded Jul 26, 2024 at 1:05
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