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Chlipala compared Ur/Web to Haskell, a functional programming language considered esoteric by many programmers yet loved by a dedicated community that praises its computational functionality.

If you're using the Rust programming language — or JavaScript, Java, Go or Python — in a project, you may want to check for potential differences between reviewed code versus the compiled code ...

The developers of the Nim programming language have released version 1.0, promising programmers a "stable base" for their code that won't be broken by future versions of Nim.