There are no Upsides to Object Oriented Programming https://lobste.rs/s/ijt1su #programming
https://maldus512.medium.com/there-are-no-upsides-to-object-oriented-programming-7ba965786894

Garbage collection is useful https://lobste.rs/s/plohjq #programming
https://dubroy.com/blog/garbage-collection-is-useful/

What are you doing this week? by @caius https://lobste.rs/s/eefzex #ask #programming

Giving C a Superpower: custom header file (safe_c.h) https://lobste.rs/s/ts2xa7 #c #programming
https://hwisnu.bearblog.dev/giving-c-a-superpower-custom-header-file-safe_ch/

Think in Math. Write in Code https://lobste.rs/s/b1njsq #plt #programming
https://www.jmeiners.com/think-in-math/

Oblique Strategies: Prompts for Programmers https://lobste.rs/s/fak69p #practices #programming
https://kevinlawler.com/prompts

Programming Languages in the Age of "AI" Agents by @alexelcu https://lobste.rs/s/50jlhk #ai #programming #python #scala #vibecoding
https://alexn.org/blog/2025/11/16/programming-languages-in-the-age-of-ai-agents/

Jonathan Blow On Programming Language Design https://lobste.rs/s/m7jvhl #video #compilers #programming
https://youtu.be/e6crOMC9WCE

#oop #programming #GUI #commonLisp #McCLIM #softwareEngineering
Article in which I show simple multiple inheritance and method qualifiers in ANSI common lisp's common lisp object system, then show how the McCLIM implementation of the common lisp interface manager 2 specification turns the objects I was working with into rich general user interfaces with a minimal declarative effort presupposing that I was presenting lisp objects.

Rich interfaces pervade lisp's history.
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/clim/basic-principle/

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A common lisp interface manager application-frame window on its own. There are three different presentation-type presentations of (CHARLIE THE FEATHERLESS BIPED).

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The McCLIM application-frame from the other image, but shown in context in front of an emacs slime repl behind it. The mouse moves over the presentations: The "expression" presentation-type is seen to be naturally sensitive (a box appears around it when moused over)

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Similar to the other animation, though this shows the expression presentation-type of the data and the foobar presentation-type in the article of the data (they are obviously the same, but the latter has a box around it as written)

Small functions considered harmful (2017) https://lobste.rs/s/pztoqh #programming
https://copyconstruct.medium.com/small-functions-considered-harmful-91035d316c29

How to write type-safe generics in C https://lobste.rs/s/uc3a3b #c #programming
https://raphgl.github.io/blog/generics-in-c.html

Version Control External Content Referenced in Your Blog by @LGUG2Z https://lobste.rs/s/sokew0 #programming
https://lgug2z.com/articles/version-control-external-content-referenced-in-your-blog/

Smoothsort Demystified (2011) https://lobste.rs/s/lylpsy #compsci #programming
https://www.keithschwarz.com/smoothsort/

A structural regular expression engine for Rust by @sminez https://lobste.rs/s/k99bvq #programming #rust
https://www.sminez.dev/match-it-again-sam/

Audio-primary content for inspiration in software development? https://lobste.rs/s/tldyec #ask #programming

What are you doing this weekend? by @caius https://lobste.rs/s/ndfgai #ask #programming

I wrote a followup #article about #lisp 's position in the #programming language #TIOBE rankings top 25 for 2025 including notes from the article's thread.

https://screwlisp.small-web.org/momentary/further-arguments-on-tiobe-lisp/

where I give examples of possibly (not) including historic languages in the list, #scheme viewed as a middle-aged lisp,

speculation about Visual Basic '98 as another completely-stable and reliably supported similarly-to-lisp target,

examples of how the ANSI standardised language still evolves.

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A bar plot titled "Years of programmer experience and compiler maturity with the language used today of TIOBE index's top 25 programming languages of 2025" - only lisp and Visual Basic '98 are more than babies (and both about 30- lisp just over, VB '98 just under)

Synit: Reactivity and object capabilities in the system layer of an OS https://lobste.rs/s/z0sqo3 #osdev #programming
https://synit.org/

Intermediate Developer https://lobste.rs/s/95amsd #programming
https://dawranliou.com/blog/intermediate-dev/

#programming #softwareEngineering #programmingLanguage #lisp #commonLisp #tiobe
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/fundamental/is-common-lisp-an-especially-good-language/
I graphed the number of years since each of the tiobe programming language top 25 current versions were created and found only ANSI Common Lisp (and Visual Basic 1998) aren't babies. I look at @nytpu 's article about lisp as a fulcrum for understanding what a current programming language having a long history is like. There are no examples outside of LISP.

Looking forward to your thoughts.

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The TIOBE programming language impact index's top 25 hot languages of 2025. The only languages that have existed for more than 5 years are lisp (over 30) and the discontinued Visual Basic 1998 (over 25). Both are at the tail end (right side) of the top 25 hot languages. It is a bar chart with grid lines.

Visual Types https://lobste.rs/s/94bkgh #programming
https://types.kitlangton.com/

Async and Finaliser Deadlocks https://lobste.rs/s/mvct7p #programming
https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2025/async_and_finaliser_deadlocks.html

Programming Paradigms https://lobste.rs/s/bjnvyq #practices #programming
https://scharenbroch.dev/blog/programming-paradigms/

#lispyGopherClimate Archive pending
https://communitymedia.video/c/screwtape_channel/videos
@kentpitman answering some of the questions and comments in this thread:
https://gamerplus.org/@screwlisp/115533182674747915

- several notes on islisp https://islisp.info/

- Tool reuse versus new #programming
- (modularity versus globality)

- Learning using only symbols?

- questions thread included a discussion of @JohnMashey viz unix

there will be a part 2

#LISP #ISlisp #knowledgeBases #languageChoice #programmingLanguage

Essentially contested concepts https://lobste.rs/s/b3ld5n #philosophy #practices #programming
https://blog.oddly-influenced.dev/2025/10/14/essentially-contested-concepts-a-catchy.html

Tonight on anonradio

6:00 northernlights
7:00 The Lispy Gopher Show

https://anonradio.net

https://gamerplus.org/@hairylarry/115025002611351773

#radio #anonradio #lisp #programming

the terminal of the future https://lobste.rs/s/ic1xkj #plt #programming
https://jyn.dev/the-terminal-of-the-future

#lispGameJam #commonLisp #programming #devlog #commonLisp #mcclim #nicclim #gamedev #itchio in which I play with the make-my-own-level player activity. (It's unix-surrealism-jam not just NicCLIM because it is built around the unique unix-surrealism-jam controls not my preexisting NicCLIM's)

Article: https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/my-common-lisp-game-jam-self-experience/

Jam submission https://itch.io/jam/autumn-lisp-game-jam-2025/rate/3822491 ,
my fellow jammers:
+
Pixel Outlaw's #interlisp https://itch.io/jam/autumn-lisp-game-jam-2025/rate/4015363
@mdhughes ' MUD https://itch.io/jam/autumn-lisp-game-jam-2025/rate/4002647

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no images... About 11 columns of a "hexagonal" arrangement of boxes on the right half of a common lisp interface manager user interface, with the left having an interactor and several informational boxes. It is my NicCLIM, which is basically just McCLIM as such.

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An animation of the NicCLIM from earlier: but the too-wide map has been replaced with a fits-nicely-grid, in which a radio choice pops up, allowing the player @ to travel to 'the right half' map.

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My NicCLIM McCLIM map again; but I added pictures, in which I basically replaced LEFT with a squiggly cursive left, right similarly, left2rite similarly. Except I used white in left2right, so I put the unix_surrealism penguin behind it in the map for contrast.

Opinion piece: On Zig (and the design choices within) https://lobste.rs/s/uclead #programming #zig
https://blueberrywren.dev/blog/on-zig/

What are you doing this week? by @caius https://lobste.rs/s/ekawwc #ask #programming

Software design patterns; Are there test cases or recipes for specific patterns? https://lobste.rs/s/ityd7h #ask #education #programming

#lispGameJam #submission #itchio #gameDev #programming #commonLisp

wooo I made my #unix_surrealism jam week game and player-focused level editor (well, prescription anyway). The jam submission is here: https://itch.io/jam/autumn-lisp-game-jam-2025/rate/3822491#post-14732650

But the article/instructions mirror in which itchio did not break my markdown is here: https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/instructions-for-game-jam/

What are you doing this weekend? by @caius https://lobste.rs/s/5eskxn #ask #programming

From web developer to database developer in 10 years via @LGUG2Z https://lobste.rs/s/ku3ul2 #databases #programming
https://notes.eatonphil.com/2025-02-15-from-web-developer-to-database-developer-in-10-years.html

I feel cheated, I've found a project claiming to be "blazing fast" and it is not written in #rust.
I thought the rustaceans had trademarked the expression 😁😁😁😁

#rustlang #programming

I use Typst now https://lobste.rs/s/kudguy #programming
https://www.christopherbiscardi.com/i-use-typst-now

Building blobd: single-machine object store with sub-millisecond reads and 15 GB/s uploads https://lobste.rs/s/yr6l6l #performance #programming
https://blog.wilsonl.in/blobd/

Radiant Computer https://lobste.rs/s/zqfr31 #osdev #programming
https://radiant.computer

I wonder what it will take to get #rakulang in the top 50 of the Tiobe index. Any thoughts?

For those that say, "a killer app" -- since I know that response is coming -- what is Raku's most likely class of killer app?

Also, congrats to the #ziglang crowd for making it into the 30's. You've earned it! I'm still of the opinion Raku can learn from Zig at the community level.

#KillerApp #programming #tiobe

Is #Perl's jump in the #tiobe index reflective of anything real? #programming

Myna: monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages https://lobste.rs/s/7w2aj3 #programming
https://github.com/sayyadirfanali/Myna

Disassembling Terabytes of Random Data with Zig and Capstone to Prove a Point https://lobste.rs/s/jzw3ih #programming #zig
https://jstrieb.github.io/posts/random-instructions/

Strange Attractors https://lobste.rs/s/8vtfg7 #math #programming #visualization
https://blog.shashanktomar.com/posts/strange-attractors

Things I Don't Like in Configuration Languages https://lobste.rs/s/zhzxfg #programming
https://medv.io/blog/things-i-dont-like-in-configuration-languages

#lispyGopherClimate #live American Tuesday evening = 12am Wednesday UTC+0
#climateCrisis #haiku @kentpitman
need to repair archive
https://communitymedia.video/c/screwtape_channel/videos

#podcast #gopher #technology #gameDev #lispGameJam #programming

#interview -ing @someodd !
+ Notes from solderpunk and @tomasino

Also, ino's https://thehierophant.world exists

- someodd's games and programs

@mdhughes 46 years of game wisdom phlog

#lambdaMOO turned 35

#commonLisp https://screwlisp.small-web.org/fundamental/a-prog-feature/

#haskell @ramin_hal9001

@prahou

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New Lispy gopher climate banner sketch #unix_Surrealism by @prahou@merveilles.town - Tuesday evenings in the Americas, Sunday mornings in europe. The one-eyed gopher and many-eyed lisp alien are talking to a beautifully drawn face.

I want a good parallel language [video] https://lobste.rs/s/ijirtg #video #performance #programming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-eViUyPwso