I'm posting this mostly for my own benefit; this is discussing a language feature I'm unfamiliar with.

What I find interesting is that just like some ideas are in the air and find their landing point, so too do some ideas just fail to find the right implementation.

So time to look up sum types (or disjoint unions or...).

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"...language features are easily broken, mis-copied, forgotten or intentionally omitted due to the designer's pet beliefs."

https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/318788.html

Binding Application in Idris

https://andrevidela.com/blog/2025/binding-application/

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All about the new pipe operator in PHP 8.5:

https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/07/11/php-85-adds-pipe-operator/

#PHP #programming #programminglanguages

Jank Programming Language

https://jank-lang.org/

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Tree Borrows

https://plf.inf.ethz.ch/research/pldi25-tree-borrows.html

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Today I realized #Go and #Rust both have panics instead of exceptions and both originate from the second half of the 2000s.

These facts are now mentioned in https://gato-lang.dev/

If you have experience with Go or Rust, I'm interested in your thoughts on the lack of exceptions in these languages. It looks to me like an attempt to simplify things that eventually backfired, as evidenced for example by https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/dealing-with-out-of-memory-conditions-in-rust/

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SUS Lang: The SUS Hardware Description Language

https://sus-lang.org/

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A mix of neat and not-so-neat stuff 🫤:

“10 Features Of D That I Love”, Bradley Chatha (https://bradley.chatha.dev/blog/dlang-propaganda/features-of-d-that-i-love/).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44445877

On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/msjy28/10_features_d_i_love

#Programming #D #DLang #ProgrammingLanguages #Syntax #Listicle #Raves

New syntax just dropped in my toy programming language. ☺️

Not sure if I like it or hate it yet (especially the post-arguments form seen with the NEXT binding on the second picture), but I feels it's a lot easier to understand than the LET magic from before.

https://codeberg.org/bojidar-bg/project-world/commit/82b214e5757293fe32e0a11c03bb56820fc765d1

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