Daslang blog2026-03-20T00:00:00Zhttps://daslang.io/blog/running-it-livehttps://daslang.io/blog/running-it-live.html2026-03-20T00:00:00ZI like live coding. Here, I said it.ai-friendlyhttps://daslang.io/blog/ai-friendly.html2026-03-06T00:00:00ZYou say You are AI friendly. But how friendly are You?we-can-has-dasilbhttps://daslang.io/blog/we-can-has-dasilb.html2026-02-20T00:00:00ZSometimes technical debt gets paid off.quality-of-lifehttps://daslang.io/blog/quality-of-life.html2026-01-22T00:00:00ZSometimes little things make big difference.Templates? Templates?? Type macros!https://daslang.io/blog/templates-what.html2026-01-19T00:00:00ZThis is going to be a good one. It's an iceberg.LINQ?https://daslang.io/blog/linq-that.html2025-10-08T00:00:00ZLINQ? But Boris, DASLANG already has high-order functions.How to EDSLhttps://daslang.io/blog/how-to-edsl.html2025-06-05T00:00:00ZThere are ways to ~~die~~ EDSL, and there are ways to ~~die~~ EDSL.options gen2https://daslang.io/blog/gen2-syntax.html2025-05-04T00:00:00ZIts very easy to ignore reality. Ignoring effects of ignoring reality - now that's tricky.Zero point fivehttps://daslang.io/blog/zero-point-five.html2024-10-10T00:00:00ZConstruction can't be finished, only stopped. 0.5 is out.Of pipes and blockshttps://daslang.io/blog/of-pipes-and-blocks.html2024-09-17T00:00:00ZDas is not a write-only code. The idea is we read more than we write.
There is "write as you speak", but there is also "read as you listen".Data initialization in DAShttps://daslang.io/blog/data-initialization.html2024-07-23T00:00:00ZUpdated on 2024-07-29 16:31:00
Sometimes shorthand notation arrives first.Garbage collection in the wildhttps://daslang.io/blog/gc-in-the-wild.html2024-04-16T00:00:00ZWhat do a mafia boss and a garbage-collector have in common?
Both make sure you'll never see unwanted things again!Daslang it ishttps://daslang.io/blog/daslang-it-is.html2023-12-28T00:00:00ZThe plug has been pulled. Daslang it is. Take a look at dasCHash too ( C#->DAS ).0.4 and THE PLANhttps://daslang.io/blog/version-4.html2023-05-01T00:00:00Z0.4 is out. Its a big deal. Its not a big deal.Hectichttps://daslang.io/blog/hectic.html2023-04-17T00:00:00ZHectic is exactly the word which comes to mind, when I look at the commit history for the month.A matter of multiplicationhttps://daslang.io/blog/a-matter-of-multipliction.html2023-03-20T00:00:00ZIts a matter of multiplication, really. Productivity factors do not just add up (thats why they are called factors).Wake up and test the damn thinghttps://daslang.io/blog/wake-up-and-test-the-damn-thing.html2023-02-25T00:00:00ZIt has to be stable. The time has come to test the damn thing.Pattern matchinghttps://daslang.io/blog/pattern-matching.html2023-02-07T00:00:00ZIn the world of computer programming, there is a concept known as pattern matching.
This technique allows us to take a complex value, such as an array or a variant, and compare it to a set of patterns.
If the value fits a certain pattern, the matching process continues and we can extract specific values from that value.
This is a powerful tool for making our code more readable and efficient,
and in this section we'll be exploring the different ways that pattern matching can be used in daScript.For loop noisehttps://daslang.io/blog/for-loop-noise.html2023-01-27T00:00:00ZIt's stupid. It's ugly. Its also measurable performance gain.Performance and CMRES aliasinghttps://daslang.io/blog/performance-and-aliasing.html2023-01-21T00:00:00ZFrom dascript.org "... is high-level, statically strong typed scripting language, designed to be fast ..."
With an emphasis on fast. Performance first, last, and foremost.It's not a scripthttps://daslang.io/blog/its-not-a-script.html2022-12-31T00:00:00ZWhats in a name? The sheer fact that I'm writing this post implies a problem.
"It's not a script" is something we had to say on numerous occasions.
- `Boris ELI5 script?`
- Script is a simple programming langue you write your game logic in. When it gets slow you rewrite it to C++.
daScript is none of the above.Implementing instrumentshttps://daslang.io/blog/instruments.html2022-12-11T00:00:00ZDuring the last few days I took a small detour from the land of the JIT, to the land of the profiler.There is something about JIThttps://daslang.io/blog/something-about-jit.html2022-11-20T00:00:00ZIn the early days of daScript development having robust JIT was never a priority.
In fact during the initial planning meetings JIT was postponed until the cows came home.Better safehttps://daslang.io/blog/better-safe.html2022-11-14T00:00:00Z[Herb Sutter is right](https://youtu.be/ELeZAKCN4tY?t=2391). Its the same thing year after year after year. `Lifetime`, `Initialization`, `Type safety`, and `Bounds safety` are the things which your language should do for you.Lock and loadhttps://daslang.io/blog/builtin-lock-check-md.html2022-11-13T00:00:00ZConsider the following example:
```python
[export]
def main
var a <- [{int 1;2;3;4}]
for x in a
a |> push(13) // kaboom
```
It causes daScript runtime panic.