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Revenge of Lisp (Part 1⁄2)

Published: 30 September 2021
Tags: common lisp

Common Lisp (CL) has been around since 1982, and has since then developed into one of the top Lisp dialects. If you haven't tried it, I'd recommend giving it a go. If I can't convince, you maybe this article can by Renato Athaydes. Renato introduces the basics of Common Lisp, then goes into comparing performance of a phone encoding problem in CL, Rust, and Java.

100% CPU: My Fault?

Published: 03 October 2021
Tags: java

"You broke something" isn't usually what you want to hear from a system admin. Unless maybe we're talking about a record. In this case, Joseph Mate is not talking about records; instead his article is about how and why a well-intended optimization led to a JDK8 bug that caused 100% CPU utilization.

Under the Hood of Macros in Elixir

Published: 5 October 2021
Tags: elixir

Macros are usually recommended to be used sparingly and only when absolutely necessary, due to their complexity. Therefore, you should know exactly how they work! Jia Hao Woo extensive article covers the expansion phase of Elixir's compilation process, macro context, order of evaluation and caller context, variable scoping, and macro hygiene.