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Evan Czaplicki announces Elm 0.19.3, the second incremental release on the road to an end-to-end Elm experience with Acadia, outlining the rough roadmap for upcoming releases and the compiler infrastructure work aimed at making it correct by construction.
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Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore
The Gleam v1.19.0 release notes explain that the compiler's Erlang backend was rewritten to emit Erlang abstract forms instead of Erlang source, cutting build times and giving accurate source locations, alongside JavaScript decision-tree and list-literal optimisations, TypeScript overloads, language server label support, and better error messages.
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Equality Saturation: An “Incomplete” Project
Max Willsey revisits equality saturation five years after the egg paper, surveying egglog, Slotted, Colored and Versioned E-Graphs, Cranelift's aegraphs and MLIR integrations, and arguing that giving up completeness has been a strength that enables flexibility, control and a growing research community.
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How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026
How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026 My last post](https://nnethercote.github.io/2026/07/31/how-to-speed-up-the-rust-compiler-in-july-2026.html) on the Rust compiler’s performance was two months ago and a lot has happened since then. Overall progress The measurements for the period 2026-07-29 to 2026-09-28 can be seen here](https://perf.rust-lang.org/compare.html?start=1a833e16546c2eb012758ddd499964fd8afee29e&stat=wall-time&tab=compile&end=c1070d69382b8d2f2eb65119c738a77d9e324c9e&
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Edward Kmett's week-old Turbo Haskell Compiler (THC) JITs GHC Core onto Truffle/GraalVM, supports AOT Native Image, polyglot FFI, Loom green threads, and can compile pandoc, happy, alex, and GHC itself.
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01 Fiscal sponsorship Receive and manage donations on behalf of EDG. The EDG open source transition On September 30, 2026, the source for EDG's C++ front end goes public, and The C++ Alliance becomes its nonprofit home. Same engine, same standards, professionally maintained, and open to contributions. Continuity is the point. This is a change of steward, not a change of course.
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Writing a ray tracer in Brainfuck
A playful systems post that implements a ray tracer in Brainfuck—compilers, esolangs, and the surprising claim that sometimes the correct answer is to write a compiler.
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Bespoke: A Programming Language for People Who Say Please
Bespoke is a statically typed programming language proposal in which every interaction with the compiler, runtime, and host environment must be phrased as a formal, polite request using British Victorian etiquette. The post specifies the type system, mutation model, control flow, concurrency primitives, and error handling — all reimagined in ceremonial prose.
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Adding Go's defer to the TypeScript Compiler
Andrew Healey forks the Go-based TypeScript compiler to add a Go-style defer statement, walking through how the compiler is structured, how defer should behave including error handling, and the JavaScript it emits, before concluding defer probably should not exist and that TypeScript's using declarations are the closer fit.
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Compiling Rust to readable C with Eurydice
LWN's Daroc Alden looks at Eurydice, part of the Inria/Microsoft Aeneas verification project, which converts Rust into clean, readable C for high-assurance and C-only environments, covering its IR passes, how it handles generics, traits and monomorphization, and where it is and is not worth using.
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Matt Keeter writes a hand-tuned AArch64 assembly interpreter for the Uxn virtual machine and finds it about 30 percent faster than his safe-Rust baseline, explaining why dispatch dominates interpreter time, how keeping VM state in registers and per-opcode dispatch help, and follow-up experiments from readers.
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