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Is there something better than async in order to avoid dead or unused processing times in single thread?
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What are the disadvantages of using CPS form?
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What do various designers of JavaScript regret or dislike about its design? Given the opportunity, what would they do differently and why?
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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?
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Making datatypes for a programming language to translate (or compile) to an esoteric language
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What are some options for integrating subtyping with Damas-Hindley-Milner inference?
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Distinguishing between constant patterns and binding patterns
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Parallel like CUDA, safe like Rust [closed]
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What makes a language "golfy"?
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Why doesn't anyone build a floating-point type that supports an arbitrary exponent?
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What are the considerations when modifying cases in a text?
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What aspects of a language design make copyability of an object possible or conditional to something?
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Why did C99 have to add the underscored keywords for _Bool _Complex _Imaginary but not for inline or restrict?
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The square bracket dance: declaring an array in Go, Java, C++ makes the bracket [] going from the left to right. What are the underlying motives?
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Are functional programming languages (such as Haskell, F#, Scala, & OCaml) memory safe like Rust? What about their embedded domain-specific languages?
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Are there any languages where you can make a variable update whenever a dependent value changes?
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How can an assembler provide suggestions for misspelt named registers with Levenshtein distance, as it cannot know token is supposed to be a register?
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Semantics on `with` keyword in C# for (heap-based) records
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What to do with productions that have multiple LHS?
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Rationale for requiring struct prefix in C
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Why would a language have a concept of undefined behavior instead of raising an error?
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Are there OO languages which implement objects as persistent data-structures?
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Strings and arrays in Project Valhalla
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Why do many programming languages use the symbol of two vertical parallel lines `||` to mean "or"?
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Why not make all keywords soft in python?
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Why not make all keywords soft in python?
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What are the ways to define optionally binary / ternary operators with shared keywords (e.g. for ... else) without unintended ambiguities?
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Should a language have both null and undefined values?
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Is there any particular reason to only implement 2 and 3 input hypot?
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Is there any particular reason to only implement 2 and 3 input hypot?
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How might I implement a `typeid` operator (returning the type of its argument as something, presumably as a string) in my compiler?
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Why no "full-stack" SQL-like language?
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Why no "full-stack" SQL-like language?
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What's the justification for implicitly casting arrays to pointers (in the C language family)?
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What are the ways to define optionally binary / ternary operators with shared keywords (e.g. for ... else) without unintended ambiguities?
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What challenges might still prevent compiler or JIT optimizations of common FP operations like map, filter, and reduce?
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How to detect and resolve ambiguous grammars?
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What are some options for adding a sound equality operator (or avoiding it) in a type system with subtyping?
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How are existential types different from Rust's traits?
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What are some options for adding a sound equality operator (or avoiding it) in a type system with subtyping?
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Analysis of methods to ensure memory safety
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Rationale for requiring struct prefix in C
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What is the term for types that are not type variables?
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Prior art for concatenative array language?
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Why do "modern" languages not provide argv and exit code in main?
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What do you call the act of rebalance an parse tree so simplistic regex are closest to the root node over variables/identifiers?
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Why do "modern" languages not provide argv and exit code in main?
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Why do most languages use the same token for `EndIf`, `EndWhile`, `EndFunction` and `EndStructure`?
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Why do "modern" languages not provide argv and exit code in main?
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