The best Programming Languages newsletters

Aaron Hsu's newsletter mixes detailed, hands-on tests of affordable pens (judged on glide, feedback and wetness) with in-depth explanations of array programming in APL. It also announces APL workshops and related events.

A developer's blog about Sharpee, a TypeScript interactive fiction platform, and Chord, its self-contained authoring language. Posts cover language features like expanses, the Phrase Algebra template system, and the testing and IDE tooling, with a mix of design rationale and release updates.

A retro computing newsletter by a long-time Atari 8-bit enthusiast, covering new hardware like THE 800XL, Forth programming history on Atari machines, and overlooked models such as the 600XL. Readers get personal, opinionated takes on Atari and other vintage computers with practical context on pricing, availability and software.

A research group's blog covering their work on tooling for AMOS BASIC in the browser, a data lakehouse for urban energy digital twins, and a personal essay linking neuroscience and software engineering. Readers get technical discussion of language implementation priorities, data architecture, and a more informal take on technical debt and learning.

Voodoo Tiki God is a personal newsletter from a Vercel engineer about building and maintaining AI agent skills for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, and about performance problems in Python-based machine learning. The excerpts mix practical notes on keeping agent instructions current with fast-moving frameworks and longer essays on the GIL and Rust/Mojo as alternatives.

Paul Biggar's blog mixes technical posts, such as his account of building an optimizing compiler for the Darklang language with AI coding assistance and benchmark comparisons, with political writing on Palestine, Ireland's role, and Meta's data practices. Readers get concrete engineering detail alongside advocacy pieces that take a clear, critical stance.

Darklang Inc is the new steward of the Darklang programming language after its former company Dark Inc ran out of money in 2025. The newsletter covers the company handover, the open-sourcing of Darklang under Apache 2.0, and the reasoning behind the shift toward local-first development and AI-assisted coding.

This is a personal academic and professional site for a Chilean computer science PhD and software engineer, mixing research updates, publication listings, and CV material. Readers get a view of his research interests in programming languages, software engineering and agent-based modelling, plus his industry experience.