Tagged: ilo
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NaN Boxing in Rust: Cramming Every Value Into 8 Bytes LuaJIT packs every value into 8 bytes using NaN boxing. Porting this to Rust means opting out of everything the language gives you. Read article --explain: Reading a Language You Don't Know ilo's annotation tool shows the structural role of every statement. Built for agents, useful for humans too. Read article Chaining Transforms with >> ilo's pipe operator passes the result of one call into the next. No intermediate names needed. Read article Higher-Order Functions Without Lambdas ilo added map, flt, and fld - but not anonymous functions. Here's why named functions win for AI agents. Read article Nine Syntax Experiments: What I Learned Testing Language Designs Against LLMs Nine syntax variants for the same language, benchmarked against Claude Haiku. Positional args mattered more than abbreviations. Read article