The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 21, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Enum of Arrays
  

  performance zig
  

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• My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red
  

  web
  

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• Half My Life with Perl
  

  video historical perl
  

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• Interactive Lustre tutorial on Gleam tours
  

  gleam web
  

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• Visitor Pattern Considered Pointless - Use Pattern Switches Instead (2021)
  

  java
  

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• The Better Daemons Of Our Profession
  

  culture
  

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• Debugging a network performance issue in an OCaml 5 program
  

  ml performance
  

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• Why We’re Moving to a Source Available License
  

  databases law
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Poetry(-core), or the ultimate footgun
  

  python rant
  

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• (1981) Interlisp-D Demonstration by Beau Sheil
  

  video lisp
  

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• The era of open voice assistants has arrived
  

  ai
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 20, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• fish-shell 4.0b1, now in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• How do you do, fellow web developers? A growing disconnect
  

  culture web
  

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• Java in the Small
  

  java
  

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• Home Manager: dotfiles management
  

  nix
  

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• Elixir v1.18 released: type checking of function calls, Language Server listeners, built-in JSON, and ExUnit improvements
  

  elixir release
  

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• Piccolo OS, a small multitasking OS for the Raspberry Pi Pico
  

  assembly c education hardware
  

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• Announcing Chapel 2.3
  

  plt release
  

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• Eternal Terminal
  

  networking unix
  

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• The RAM myth
  

  performance
  

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• Announcing NetBSD 10.1 (Dec 16, 2024)
  

  netbsd
  

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• Go advanced concurrency patterns: unlimited buffer channels
  

  go
  

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• The Intel 80376 – a Legacy-Free i386 (with a Twist!) (2010)
  

  hardware historical
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 19, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A Survey Of System Languages (2024)
  

  plt
  

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• ergo: A modern IRC server (daemon/ircd) written in Go
  

  go networking
  

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• Optimizing Ruby’s JSON, Part 1
  

  performance ruby
  

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• Introduce support for the Meson build system - git.git@904339e
  

  programming vcs
  

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• Impressions of React and TypeScript from an Elixir/Elm developer
  

  elixir elm javascript programming
  

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• LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)
  

  law web
  

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• Fixing C strings
  

  c
  

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• What are temporal and spatial memory safety?
  

  programming
  

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• Effectful - Build Fast & Reliable Haskell Applications
  

  haskell
  

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• Interactive diagrams for complex systems
  

  design graphics visualization
  

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• AI and Internet Hygiene
  

  ai
  

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• Murder Mystery: GCC Builds Failing After sbuild Refactoring in Debian
  

  d debugging linux testing
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 16, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Xfce 4.20 released
  

  release
  

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• Load is not what you should balance: Introducing Prequal
  

  distributed performance
  

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• Should Programming Languages be Safe or Powerful?
  

  plt
  

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• Fully documented and annotated source code for Elite on the Commodore 64
  

  historical
  

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• Far From Random: Three Mistakes From Dart/Flutter's Weak PRNG
  

  cryptography
  

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• Solving Advent of Code at Compile Time with Rust Macros
  

  rust
  

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• Energy-Harvesting Electronic Holiday Card 2024
  

  hardware
  

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• Swift Language focus areas heading into 2025
  

  swift
  

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• WebTransport (WebSockets 2.0) talk at RubyConf
  

  video networking ruby web
  

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• Garbage Collected Smart Pointers in Rust via Concurrent Cycle Collection
  

  compsci plt rust
  

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• Performance of Rust's match vs. lookup tables (2019)
  

  performance rust
  

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• Now we’re all Forked
  

  swift
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 14, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Jujutsu version control system
  

  vcs
  

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• "Rules" that terminal programs follow
  

  unix
  

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• 3 shell scripts to improve your writing, or "My Ph.D. advisor rewrote himself in bash."
  

  practices release
  

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• Majjit LSP
  

  vcs
  

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• Cursor Size Problems In Wayland, Explained
  

  linux
  

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• Helix: Why (And How) I Use It
  

  editors
  

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• The Humble For Loop in Rust
  

  practices rust
  

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• C++ exception performance three years later
  

  c++ performance
  

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• Things You Never Wanted To Know About Go Interfaces
  

  compilers go
  

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• API Design of X (Twitter) Home Timeline
  

  programming
  

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• Less talk, more code
  

  practices
  

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• Programmers want flow. when programming, light turns RED
  

  show culture
  

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