I had some of the fondest memories for Visual Basic in 1998. In January, I enlisted myself to a project to revive the fun part of programming. There are certain regrets in today’s software engineering culture where we put heavy facades to enforce discipli... (more…)

6 years ago, Swift was announced. In the years since, a thriving community has emerged around a shared passion for building and using the Swift programming language. This community has spread far beyond Apple through conferences, open source repositories... (more…)

In this article, I will show you how to install and use Swift 3 on Linux. Swift is officially tested and supported on Ubuntu Linux. I will assume that you have Ubuntu 16.04 installed on your server or on your local computer.

Computer archaeology with a modern language (and a bit more runtime work)... (more…)

It probably all started with an innocently-looking issue in the emscripten repository back in 2014: For context, back in 2014 the Emscripten project was built as a backend for LLVM -based… (more…)