Programming Languages / CS Theory (2024-08)
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How to write a programming language and shell in Go with 92% test coverage and instant CI/CD
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This is a companion to [another talk I gave about Elvish's design](https://lobste.rs/s/omrfjb/designing_shell_language_for_2010s), focusing on the implementation. Sorry for the click-baity title, I was trying very hard to get my proposal accepted :)
I was told by several members of the audience t...
SQL has been extremely successful as the de facto standard language for working with data. Virtually all mainstream database-like systems use SQL as their primary query language. But SQL is an old language with significant design problems, making it difficult to learn, difficult to use, and difficul...