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De‐bloating Javascript

Lobsters Hottest ↗ · 2026-05-18 Cached

LispE is a compact Lisp dialect developed by NAVER that combines functional and array language features, with support for AI libraries like PyTorch and llama.cpp.

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The Mercury logic programming system

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-05-18 Cached

Mercury is a logic/functional programming language that combines declarative programming with static analysis and error detection. The repository provides source code, documentation, and backend support for multiple platforms.

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Profunctor Equipment in Haskell

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-05-16 Cached

This blog post provides a toy Haskell implementation of profunctor equipment, including natural transformations and composition, to make category-theoretic concepts accessible to programmers.

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Erlang/OTP 29.0 Release

Lobsters Hottest ↗ · 2026-05-13 Cached

Erlang/OTP 29.0 is a major release introducing native records, multi-valued comprehensions, improved compiler warnings, and enhanced security defaults like disabled SSH daemons. It also includes JIT improvements and experimental features like post-quantum cryptography support.

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Point-Free Logic Programming

Lobsters Hottest ↗ · 2026-05-10

The article discusses point-free logic programming, a concept related to functional programming paradigms.

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Phel v0.36.0 – Lisp on PHP, now with numeric tower and first-class Vars

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-05-08 Cached

Phel v0.36.0 is released, bringing a numeric tower and first-class Vars to the Lisp-inspired functional language that compiles to PHP.

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The secret history of Recursion Schemes

Lobsters Hottest ↗ · 2026-04-22 Cached

A talk tracing the evolution from goto spaghetti to structured loops and finally to recursion schemes, showing how control-flow abstractions mirror data structures and why most languages still hide the best combinators.

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An Algorithmic Reconstruction of Normalisation by Evaluation

Lobsters Hottest ↗ · 2026-04-22 Cached

The article presents an algorithmic reconstruction of normalisation by evaluation (NbE) for untyped lambda calculus, showing step-by-step optimizations that yield an asymptotically faster normaliser than standard NbE implementations.

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Effectful Recursion Schemes

Lobsters Hottest ↗ · 2026-04-20 Cached

The Effekt programming language blog post demonstrates how to implement recursion schemes (particularly catamorphisms) using effects and handlers instead of traditional functor-based approaches, avoiding the need for infinitely recursive types.

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Transpiling from Python into Lisp

Lobsters Hottest ↗ · 2026-04-20 Cached

LispE is an open-source Lisp dialect by NAVER that combines functional and array language features with support for AI libraries like PyTorch, llama.cpp, and MLX. It runs as both a native application and WebAssembly library with thread support and modern functional programming capabilities.

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Clojure: Transducers

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-04-19 Cached

Official Clojure documentation explains transducers—composable, stateful transformation functions that decouple sequence processing from specific collection types.

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Effect-TS/effect

GitHub Trending (daily) ↗ · 2026-10-02 Cached

Effect is a TypeScript library for building robust, type-safe, production-grade applications, handling typed errors, dependency injection, structured concurrency, scheduling, tracing, and schema validation. Version 4.x is announced as a long-term support release with at least three years of support guarantees.

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