Why not?

There was a recent post on /r/scala (direct article link) about how great tail recursion is. I agree with everything said in that article; this isn't an attempt to refute his points. But tail recursion has a dark side: it can be a huge hassle.
Non-tail recursive code has a very useful property: as each invocation on the stack completes, the previous invocation picks up exactly where it left off. So you can do some work, recurse, and then do more work when the recursion finishes. You can even...

Yesterday's big news, at least for many developers, is that JetBrains - maker of popular tools like IntelliJ and ReSharper - is moving to a software-as-a-service subscription model for their products.
Previously, buying a JetBrains product got you a perpetual license and a year of upgrades. Once the license expired, any software you had received under that license would continue to work, but you would need to buy another license to get further upgrades...

There's been a lot of buzz today about WebAssembly, and that's completely understandable. A bytecode form of Javascript has been on the minds of many web developers for a long time. But the online commentary seems to have been based more on hopes than...

In my personal time, I've been playing at building a toy programming language. Progress has been slow, but things are finally starting to come together. Last night, I ended up finding an interesting bug, and I wanted to document it here.
The syntax of my language isn't super complicated. Here's an example of a function:...