Curated / Beyond Tabs
Articles and discussions about the languages covered here, with editorial notes.
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Julia
Julia Blog · Published November 1, 2026
Jakob Nybo Andersen
A community roundup of Julia development, including work on loading and compilation latency, parsing, package resolution and installation size. The article links to implementation discussions and pull requests, making it a useful map for…
Fortran
Fortran-lang News · Published September 21, 2026
Connor Aird, Andrew Brown, David Kamm, Gina Sitaraman and Dimitrios Theodorakis
The Fortran community is collecting recognisable patterns that make established code difficult to understand, test and maintain, together with concrete alternatives. The article explains what makes a useful example and how to contribute…
APL
Dyalog Blog · Published September 15, 2026
Adám Brudzewsky
Adám Brudzewsky shows how he customises the Dyalog development environment, covering fonts, zoom controls and keyboard behaviour with small APL functions. This is practical material for people already using the IDE, particularly on…
Rust
Rust Blog · Published September 7, 2026
Sam Kellam, on behalf of the Rust compiler team
The Rust compiler team reports how survey respondents use debuggers and where they encounter friction, including async code, setup and the display of Rust data structures. The report separates findings by workflow and operating system and…
Elixir
Elixir Blog · Published June 3, 2026
José Valim
José Valim explains Elixir's gradual type checking, including type inference without user-written annotations and how dynamic types are narrowed through a program. Worked examples show which incompatible operations the compiler can…
Zig
Ziggit · Published May 18, 2026
lukeflo, Ziggit user
The author introduces a terminal file manager written in Zig and reports how it develops through user feedback. Later replies cover file operations, Git information and a replacement terminal-interface library. Useful as a small-project…
Haskell
Mercury Engineering · Published March 5, 2026
Mitchell Vitez
Mercury explains how its engineering hires learn Haskell through exercises, daily mentoring and tasks tied to the company's backend. The account covers types, GHCi, testing and web-development work, with an emphasis on feedback. Useful…
Ada
Ada Forum · Published December 7, 2025
Irvise, Ada Forum user
An Ada Forum thread in December 2025 noted community concern over Ada/SPARK's absence from recent ACM SIGPLAN research videos on formal verification and software quality. Developer Heziode announced Aclida, a formally verified CLI…
Zig
Ziggit · Published December 2, 2025
Ziggit user
Anthropic ($350B valuation) acquired Bun to power Claude Code. Bun's runtime is written in Zig. The Ziggit community discussion reveals competing emotions: excitement that Zig now powers critical infrastructure at billion-dollar scale,…
Zig
TechFinitive · Published December 2, 2025
Nicole Kobie
GitHub Actions has reached the point where CI scheduling feels nondeterministic. In Zig's case it stalled the entire build pipeline so badly that even manual retries weren't enough to recover. Andrew Kelley attributes this to Microsoft's…
Rust
r/rust subreddit · Published November 19, 2025
Reddit user
On November 18, 2025, a global Cloudflare outage stemmed from a failure in their bot management service, internally named FL2, which was partially written in Rust. According to Cloudflare's technical post-mortem, the root cause was a…
Clojure
HackerNoon · Published June 6, 2025
Artem Barmin
A podcast series featuring engineering leaders from CyCognito, Metabase, Red Planet Labs, JustOn, Mobot, and HolidayPirates offers a cross-section of long-term Clojure usage in production. At CyCognito, Yehonathan Sharvit describes a…