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Software Development

Beyond the Browser: Is WebAssembly Ready to Rule the Server?
For years, WebAssembly (Wasm) was neatly pigeonholed as the secret sauce of the browser—a clever performance hack that allowed heavy…
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Software Development

SQL Window Functions: The Decades-Old Feature Most Application Code Still Ignores
Standardized in 2003. Pioneered in 1998. Still missing from a huge share of the code that could use it. Ask…
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Software Development

Fortran’s Second Life Inside Modern Scientific Computing
A 1957 language, still underneath NumPy, still underneath climate models, still underneath the machines that rank the world’s fastest supercomputers.…
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Scala

Scala’s Implicits: Porting Haskell’s Type Classes Into a Language That Already Had Subtyping
Philip Wadler invented a coherent mechanism in 1988. Thirty-one years later, he co-authored a paper trying to get some of…
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Software Development

Pony’s Reference Capabilities: Data-Race-Free Actors Without Locks or GC Pauses
A type system that lets actors share mutable memory by pointer, not by copy, and still guarantees no two of…
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