Neversaw.us: The Case For Bash
Bash values a very particular fitness for purpose: the management and coordination of programs. This includes spawning processes, connecting processes via pipelines, and parallelizing processes. The purpose of Bash is running other programs.
Fast.ai: Mojo may be the biggest programming language advance in decades
Mojo is a new programming language, based on Python, which fixes Python’s performance and deployment problems.
Atlas: Why Lisp?
Edward Loveall: Let's Make Sure Github Doesn't Become the only Option
GitHub’s dominance is a risk to the software industry. Making GitHub the primary platform gives one company the power to put their needs over yours, or the industry’s. We risk leaving brilliant developers behind who don’t work well with GitHub’s paradigms. We risk being stuck with our old, technical mistakes because the underlying technology never changes. We risk losing control over our tools because they’re not actually our tools.
Madhadron: The seven programming ur-languages