I hope you’ve been keeping well. I’m kicking off 2021 with not just one, but two posts for you. As a thanks for signing up, you’re getting these posts exclusively for the first 48 hours.
I announced on Twitter that I’m aiming to share 40 posts this year. 2 down, 38 to go!
New Posts!
We’re rounding out the Bolt compiler series with these two posts.
Generics - we’re implementing generics (List<T>) using the same approach as C++ templates!
Inheritance and Method Overriding - you can’t call Bolt a proper object-oriented language without inheritance and method overriding.
Yes, there will always be more language features to implement… access modifiers, arrays, optional types, the list goes on.
HN discussion on ReScript - ReasonML is dead. Long live ReScript! ReasonML is an example of how fragmented communities working on similar (but slightly different) goals can lead to a language failing. I think it’s also a case of building a language as a solution to a problem no one really had.
Programming Memes?
Last time I got a reply to this newsletter asking for programming memes. Send me your favourite programming meme and I’ll post the best one in the next issue!
YouTube?
I’m launching a YouTube channel soon, so there’ll be even more educational content! You heard it here first ;) I’ll have more details in the next issue.
Till then,
Mukul
PS: nothing like public accountability to get me to make that first video. ;)
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