Interpreter Implementation, AST Traversal, Minimal Compilers, Educational

State of Opinion – Programming Languages – Autumn 2025 Edition
xlii.space·5h·
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🔗Concatenative Languages
BQN "Macros" with •Decompose (2023)
saltysylvi.github.io·19h·
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🔧Scheme Macros
Building the Reasoning Engine at Axiom
axiommath.ai·22h·
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🎭Program Synthesis
Homomorphism Problems in Graph Databases and Automatic Structures
arxiv.org·1d
🔗Unification Algorithms
Slip – A Lisp System in JavaScript
lisperator.net·1d·
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🌱Minimal Lisps
I built a translator for spatial thinking (because I can't interview in Python)
graemefawcett.ca·22h·
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🎮Language Ergonomics
Experimenting with ACL2 and Claude Code
mikedodds.org·1d·
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💬Interactive REPLs
SE371 - Assignment 2
dev.to·15h·
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🤐Zipper Structures
My First Week of Vibecoding
underreacted.leaflet.pub·15h·
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Gleam
Monument Engine: Jx
monument.ai·2h·
Discuss: Lobsters
Interpreter Optimization
Gleam Programming Language Tour
tour.gleam.run·9h·
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Gleam
Combobulate: Structured Editing and Navigation in Emacs with Tree-sitter
github.com·1d·
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📝Text Editors
ReasonScape Evaluation: AI21 Jamba Reasoning vs Qwen3 4B vs Qwen3 4B 2507
reddit.com·2d·
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🏁Language Benchmarks
Stop Chunking Blindly: How Flat Splits Break Your RAG Pipeline Before It Even Starts
levelup.gitconnected.com·2h·
Discuss: r/LLM
🪢Rope Data Structures
OCaml 5.4 Release: New Features, Fixes, and More
tarides.com·10h·
🐪OCaml
Cactus Language • Semantics 3
inquiryintoinquiry.com·1d
📋Backus-Naur Form
Three ways formally verified code can go wrong in practice
buttondown.com·1d
📜Proof Languages
Functions are Asymmetric
elbeno.com·19h
😴Lazy Evaluation
Learning Typst
sumnerevans.com·5h
🎮Language Ergonomics
An enough week
blog.mitrichev.ch·1d·
🌲Deforestation