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Picture this: you’re sipping your morning coffee, browsing through yet another “revolutionary” programming language announcement, when suddenly you stumble upon something called Gleam. Your first thought? “Great, another JavaScript framework disguised as a programming language.” But hold your horses – Gleam is something entirely different, and dare I say, refreshingly sane. Gleam isn’t trying to reinvent the wheel or solve world hunger through blockchain-powered AI. Instead, it’s doing something much more valuable: making functional programming on the BEAM accessible without sacrificing the power that makes Erlang and Elixir so compelling for building bulletproof systems....

Picture this: It’s 2024, and your teenage neighbor can create a viral TikTok dance in minutes but can’t understand why their phone’s battery drains faster when running multiple apps. Meanwhile, somewhere in Estonia, a 14-year-old is casually debugging Python code during lunch break. Welcome to the wild, wonderful, and frankly bewildering world of global coding education – where some countries are racing toward a digital future while others are still figuring out if they should even start the engine....

Picture this: You’re sipping your morning coffee, scrolling through GitHub, when suddenly it hits you—that critical library your entire company depends on? The one that saves you millions in development costs? It’s maintained by exactly one person who hasn’t been paid a dime in three years and is slowly burning out faster than a cheap laptop running Docker. Welcome to the beautiful, chaotic world of open source sustainability, where trillion-dollar companies build empires on the backs of volunteer developers who can barely afford ramen....

If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to play god with programming languages, welcome to Racket – where creating your own programming language is not just possible, it’s practically encouraged. This isn’t your typical “Hello, World!” programming language where you spend months just figuring out how to print text. Racket is the Swiss Army knife of language creation, and today we’re going to dive deep into why it has earned the title of “the language for creating languages....

Picture this: You’re in a code review, and someone drops the dreaded phrase, “This doesn’t follow best practices.” Your heart sinks. You know your code works. It’s clean, readable, and solves the problem efficiently. But somehow, you feel like you’ve committed a programming sin because you didn’t follow the sacred scrolls of software development orthodoxy. Here’s the uncomfortable truth that the industry doesn’t want to admit: “best practices” are often just “practices that worked well in someone else’s context....