Tag: programming languages
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Untyped Typescript or Error Prone Covariance
Some time ago I wrote this short article about co- and controvariance in Kotlin and how these features help the developer to write less error prone code. When I talked with some colleagues about TypeScript, I recognized that, despite some experiences I made with small pet projects, I do no know about type variance in…
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Haskell is Faster than Rust! … Wait a Sec!
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To evaluate the impact of memory management in Rust, I implemented a short benchmark in Rust and Kotlin. You can find all the details here and here. Measurements showed that Rust is roughly a factor of 10 faster than Kotlin, most probably caused by better handling of memory garbage. Being a big fan of Haskell,…
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Yes, Rust has Garbage Collection, and a Fast One
Rust is getting more and more popular. Thus, a group of colleagues, including myself, evaluated it for half a day to build up our own opinion, if Rust is of strategic interest for us or not. We did some coding following the standard introduction book, looked at some frameworks, and watched the presentation “Considering Rust”.…
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Developers Adopt Kotlin! Addressing your fears and Kotlin’s gains.
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Every time I have used Kotlin instead of Java I enjoyed it and did not regret it. But somehow I still meet some reservations regarding Kotlin with both managers and sometimes developers. This Post will address your fears as a (Java) developer regarding the use of Kotlin and elaborate a bit on what Kotlin will…
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Managers adopt Kotlin! Addressing your fears and Kotlin’s gains.
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Every time I have used Kotlin instead of Java I enjoyed it and did not regret it. But somehow I still meet some reservations regarding Kotlin with both managers and sometimes developers. This post will address your fears as a manager regarding the use of Kotlin and elaborate a bit on what Kotlin will gain…
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Unbounded Functional Loops in Kotlin
This article is a follow-up to this previous article about bounded loops. Bounded loops are cool because they always terminate and usually it is pretty easy to estimate the computational time. But as every computer scientist, who had to understand the halting problem, knows, there is a big class of algorithms which are harder. These…
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Measuring of Swift by looking at a simple web service
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I ran across a colleague’s article recently and figured that the Swift programming language would be a nice addition to his comparison. In order to remedy this I implemented the admittedly very simple web service in Swift and measured both its performance and size. Then I followed the given structure of the article in terms…
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