About this ‘A Language a Day’ Advent Calendar 2019 Welcome to Day 5 of this year’s A Language a Day Advent Calendar. Today’s topic is an overview of the very-well updated C++ programming language. C++ feels like a new languageB. Straustrup, A Tour of C++ You may reasonably ask what’s up with C++? It appeared about … Continue reading “Modern C++ at a Glance — A Language a Day, Advent Calendar 2019 Day 5/24”
Month: December 2019
Kotlin at a Glance — A Language a Day, Advent Calendar 2019 Day 4/24
About this ‘A Language a Day’ Advent Calendar 2019 Welcome to Day 4 of this year’s A Language a Day Advent Calendar. Today’s topic is introduction to the Kotlin programming language. Facts about the language Some facts about the Kotlin programming language: It targets JVM (but the syntax is not of Java) Can be compiled to … Continue reading “Kotlin at a Glance — A Language a Day, Advent Calendar 2019 Day 4/24”
Julia at a Glance — A Language a Day, Advent Calendar 2019 Day 3/24
About this ‘A Language a Day’ Advent Calendar 2019 Welcome to Day 3 of this year’s A Language a Day Advent Calendar. Today’s topic is introduction to the Julia programming language. Facts about the language Some facts about Julia: A dynamically typed language Compiles to LLVM Strong support of scientific and numeric computing (math, statistics, etc.) … Continue reading “Julia at a Glance — A Language a Day, Advent Calendar 2019 Day 3/24”
Rust at a Glance — A Language a Day, Advent Calendar 2019 Day 2/24
About this ‘A Language a Day’ Advent Calendar 2019 Welcome to Day 2 of this year’s A Language a Day Advent Calendar. Today’s topic is introduction to the Rust programming language. Facts about the language Some facts about Rust: Syntactically close to C++ Makes memory management safe It is a compiled language Object-orientation is based on … Continue reading “Rust at a Glance — A Language a Day, Advent Calendar 2019 Day 2/24”
TypeScript at a Glance — A Language a Day, Advent Calendar 2019 Day 1/24
About this ‘A Language a Day’ Advent Calendar 2019 Welcome to Day 1 of this year’s A Language a Day Advent Calendar. Today’s topic is introduction to the TypeScript programming language. Facts about the language Some facts about TypeScript: TypeScript is a superset on top of JavaScript The source code compiles to plain JavaScript There is … Continue reading “TypeScript at a Glance — A Language a Day, Advent Calendar 2019 Day 1/24”