Choosing the right news sources is important. In my case Hacker News 50 proved to be precious as in this recent post/toot/message they proposed “Fifteen Years of FP64 Segmentation, and Why the Blackwell Ultra Breaks the Pattern“. Briefly, modern consumer GPU has a 64:1 ration in FP64:FP32 performances (FP64 is a shortcut for Double-precision floating-point…
Category: Liberty Eiffel
Liberty Eiffel, Python
What can we learn?
I just read “Python Creator Guido van Rossum Asks: Is ‘Worse is Better’ Still True for Programming Languages?” and I wonder what can we Eiffellers learn from it.
Agenda, Liberty Eiffel
Futura agenda
5 strutture dati strane (ma utili) nell’informatica (“5 Strange (but useful) Data Structures in Computer Science”). Let’s look at five weird data structures that will help you when the arrays and hashmaps of this world aren’t enough. Do we have it in Liberty Eiffel? ROPE is part of the standard library. The other are “futura…
Liberty Eiffel
ThorVG | Thor Vector Graphics
ThorVG | Thor Vector Graphics (ThorVG) is an open-source, lightweight, and portable library designed for rendering vector-based scenes and animations, including SVG and Lottie formats
Eiffel, Liberty Eiffel, Tricks
Saturating the name-space
We are saturating the name space for programming languages. These days I discovered the Odin Programming Language “”The Data-Oriented Language for Sane Software Development.” According to its FAQs there are some things we may learn for Eiffel.
Agenda, Eiffel, Liberty Eiffel
1024cores – Distributed Reader-Writer Mutex
1024cores – Distributed Reader-Writer Mutex This is definitively something that I would like to Eiffelize!
Eiffel, Liberty Eiffel, Mood
Yet another missing Eiffel 😢
On https://github.com/attractivechaos/plb2 there is yet another programming language benchmark. And yet another not having Eiffel…. In addition to C, there is Nim, V, Rust…. that’s very sad 😢
Fun, Liberty Eiffel
7:26 on a RP3…
Well… wow!
Eiffel, Liberty Eiffel, Python
Textual
Textual is a TUI framework for Python, inspired by modern web development. Textual is a Rapid Application Development framework for Python, built by Textualize.io. Build sophisticated user interfaces with a simple Python API. Run your apps in the terminal or a web browser! Well, I just wish I could have it in EIffel….
Eiffel, Kotlin, Liberty Eiffel
Eiffeldoc: ANY
twin: ANY– Return a new object with the dynamic type of Current. copy (other: ANY) — Update current object using fields of object attached to other, so as to yield equal objects. Too bad that those Eiffel features, (function members) available in each and every object and variable are not available in Kotlin.