In my view, the impact of Go 1.20 is somewhere in between 1.18 and 1.19, with more features and solutions to longstanding problems than 1.19, but nothing on the scale of adding generics to the language in 1.18.
Source: What’s New in Go 1.20, Part I: Language Changes, an article by Carl M. Johnson.
The Git version control system has been causing us misery for 15+ years. Since its inception, a thousand people have tried to make new clients for Git to improve usability.
But practically everyone has focused on providing a pretty facade to do more or less the same operations as Git on the command-line — as if Git’s command-line interface were already the pinnacle of usability.
No one bothers to consider: what are the workflows that people actually want to do? What are the features that would make those workflows easier? So instead we get clients which think that
git rebase -ias the best possible way to reword a commit message, or edit an old commit, or split a commit, or even worth exposing in the UI.
Source: Where are my Git UI features from the future?, an article by Waleed Khan.
Hello! Today we’re going to talk about something I’m actually good at, for a change: writing compilers. Specifically, I’m going to demonstrate how to wrangle Alex and Happy to implement a parser for a simple language with the same indentation sensitive parsing behaviour as Haskell, the layout rule.
Source: Parsing Layout, or: Haskell's Syntax is a Mess, an article by Amélia Liao.