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Learning A New Programming Language per Year in the Age of AI

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200

People don’t really learn new programming languages every year anymore thanks to AI, so why do I stick with this activity? Call me old fashioned, but I still like to dive into a new programming language every year, no matter what, and thus here comes yet another update in my lifelong obsession to learn more and more programming languages.

Translating the Formula for Primes to Rust With AI

Fri, 02 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200

After creating the C++ version of C. P. Willans’ formula for primes last week, I asked myself what other language is usually pitted as the fastest ever? And the answer, of course, is Rust.

Translating the Formula for Primes to C++ with AI

Fri, 25 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Some of you might remember an article I published more or less a year ago, called “Mathematical Curiosities”. In that article I showed an indeed curious formula: the 1964 “Formula for Primes” by C. P. Willans.

Yup, Still Learning a New Programming Language Every Year

Fri, 24 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0100

I gave an update on this lifetime activity of mine in 2006, 2007, 2011, and 2013, and here we go for 2023.

Containers and DLL Hell

Fri, 11 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0100

Back in the 1990s, shared libraries were all the rage. Instead of having to ship a 20 MB *.exe file to your customer in various floppy disks, you could cut some code out, put it in a set of *.dll files, and reuse that code across all your products. Every vendor would then install lots of DLL files in your system, and they would be reused by other apps from the same vendor.

Killer Apps

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0200

The D programming language lacked a “killer app” to break through. Another brilliant language suffered from this situation, objectively deserving a much better fate than the one it had; Smalltalk.

Fortune Apps

Fri, 20 May 2022 00:00:00 +0200

As part of my work in VSHN, I lately prepared a set of demo applications ready to be containerized and deployed in our new product APPUiO Cloud.

Polyglot Conway

Fri, 05 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0100

My personal project during the pandemic was Conway, a project providing implementations of Conway’s Game of Life in as many programming languages as possible.

Enseñando C++

Tue, 17 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0200

Una vez se me ocurrió enseñarle C++ a un amigo. Un error garrafal, pero bueno, fundamentalmente, lo que le dije fue esto.

The Developer Guide to Migrate Across Galaxies

Fri, 28 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0200

This is the presentation I gave at the second App Builders Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, April 25th, 2017.