A new opinion piece contends that programming languages are treated as fixed, sacred artifacts, forcing developers to build workaround build systems and conventions instead of directly modifying their languages. It cites Raymond Chen's 2005 blog post opposing 'flow-control macros,' which warned that such customizations obscure code semantics and complicate debugging, as an example of the resistance to language malleability.
jimmyhmiller.com
· 2026-09-25
A programmer wrote a functioning ray tracer entirely in Brainfuck, the minimalist esoteric language with just eight operations and a single tape of byte cells. The project, named rayfuck, was inspired by a CMake documentation aside noting that ray tracers have been implemented in CMake's own scripting language, prompting the author to attempt an even more extreme example in BF. The source code has been published on GitHub under mTvare6/rayfuck.
epestr.com
· 2026-09-25
Elixir creator José Valim published an essay examining how programming languages, their ecosystems and communities could change as AI agents take over more code writing. The piece is split into two parts: broader reflections on community and ecosystem effects, and concrete opinions on how developer tooling should adapt now that coding agents are using languages directly.
dashbit.co
· 2026-09-25
Chris Oliver, who runs the Rails education platform GoRails and the hosting product Hatchbox, said in September 2026 that AI has hurt his education business badly enough that GoRails will sign fewer new customers this year than in its very first year of operation. He said GoRails' revenue had long subsidized Hatchbox's development but that this arrangement is no longer sustainable, prompting a Hatchbox price increase. A separate developer-education seller writing about the announcement says his own gross revenue from traditional tutorials and books has also been declining.
robrace.dev
· 2026-09-24
AMC and AMC+ are bringing back the Crypt Keeper, the wisecracking puppet host of 'Tales From the Crypt,' to introduce this year's FearFest Halloween programming block. It marks the character's first hosting appearance in roughly three decades.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-09-21
A reviewer shares detailed impressions of Paul E. McKenney's open-access book 'Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?', tracing how attending the 2026 Software Should Work conference and conversations with Fil-C creator Filip Pizlo sparked renewed interest in concurrency after a period working with TLA+ and a failed attempt to learn Lean. The piece recounts the reviewer's background before diving into reactions to McKenney's material on synchronization and concurrent programming.
ahelwer.ca
· 2026-09-21
Microsoft has officially designated Rust as a Tier One language, granting it the same organizational priority and support as long-standing languages such as C++ and C#. This classification signals broader internal adoption across Microsoft's engineering teams and platforms, including Windows and Azure infrastructure.
developers.slashdot.org
· 2026-09-18
A technical blog post reintroduces CRAP (Change Risk Anti-Patterns), a code-quality metric that combines cyclomatic complexity and test coverage to flag risky, poorly tested code. The author traces its origins and argues teams should apply it as a practical check during software projects.
testing.googleblog.com
· 2026-09-16
Nvidia announced it is extending CUDA to support GPU kernels written natively in Rust, compiled directly to PTX rather than wrapped around another language. The move covers both the existing SIMT model used in CUDA C++ and Python, and the newer Tile programming model, with development continuing into 2027.
developer.nvidia.com
· 2026-09-16
A reader without formal computer science training describes spending a year using LLMs to build a complex TypeScript/JavaScript system with APIs, PostgreSQL, and multi-model AI pipelines. When trying to move the project to production, they found themselves stuck fixing cascading errors they didn't fully understand, realizing the system's complexity had outpaced their own comprehension. A programming writer responds publicly to the reader's letter, offering candid, non-definitive thoughts on learning and competence in an AI-assisted coding era.
blog.ploeh.dk
· 2026-09-16
MartyPC is an open-source emulator for early IBM PC and compatible machines, running on Windows, Linux and macOS. Built from scratch by a hobbyist learning Rust, it now offers cycle-by-cycle accurate emulation of the Intel 8088 CPU, validated against a real 8088 chip wired to an Arduino MEGA.
github.com
· 2026-09-16
A developer released scipgo, an open-source Go library that wraps the SCIP solver for mixed integer and nonlinear programming problems. It mirrors the API design of russcip, an existing Rust crate for SCIP, making it straightforward for developers familiar with either language to switch between them.
github.com
· 2026-09-15
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