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The text discusses the relationship between Haskell and category theory, explaining that Haskell is not built upon category-theoretic foundations, but rather certain abstractions in Haskell are inspired by category theory. It goes...
06 interesting languages and their selling points
2025-03-12 • parallelism functional programming programming language openmp and opencl vectorization graphics technology simd gpu multi-core processors integrated development environment async/await monad moore's law vision api prolog array programming coroutines global state exception algebraic effects functional language ispc standardized project management futhark koka vector instructions handling
The text discusses 6 interesting programming languages and their selling points. It briefly presents Futhark, ISPC, Koka, Unison, APL, and Prolog, and explains why they are interesting and worth trying. It also provides examples o...
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2025-03-12 • blogging programming
The author shares a list of technical blogs they love and frequently read, categorized by topics such as functional programming, Unity, general tech, techno wizardry, and more.
The text is a deep dive into the author's project Shaderception, which is a compiler for a shading language that runs within the social VR platform VRChat. The project consists of several distinct parts, including the language, th...
The text discusses various tricks and techniques for writing HLSL code in Unity, including dynamically assigning to arrays, vectors, and matrices, handling NaNs, using [forcecase] for switch statements, and cbuffer aliasing to wor...
The text is a guide to setting up Haskell language server with Visual Studio Code. The author shares their experience and provides a cheatsheet for future reference. The process involves using ghcup to install the necessary toolin...
The text explains the concepts of monoid, functor, and monad in functional programming. It provides examples and code snippets to illustrate the concepts and their applications. The author also addresses the common questions and m...
The text is about Hindley-Milner type systems, which are an extension of typed lambda calculus with parametric polymorphism. It explains the types of types, instantiation and generalization, reading inference rules, unification an...