The omnipresent verb Hona (होना) is probably the most important Hindi verb. Similarly to its English counterpart — to be — it got grammaticalized and is used in multiple tense structures such as equivalents of the English present simple and present continuous. …

Javascript is eating the world Javascript has been doing the same thing to the world of programming languages that English has been doing to the world of natural languages. Nowadays, javascript is the only language with which you can code both backend and frontend (read more about scala.js ang gopherjs and others below). Besides, you…

First, can we actually measure the speed of programming languages? In theory It is very difficult to say which backend language is the fastest or the most scalable one. How could we test it? We should probably test something real, like a service running in production! …

Here at www.tiengos.com we decided to use notion as our collaboration tool and we love it. In every company I had worked at as a Software Engineer I had mostly used the Atlassian Jira. …

Number of unique verb forms In the previous post we had a look at which of the Big Romance Languages has the highest number of grammatical tenses. This time we will have a look at another metric — number of unique verb forms. Definition The formal definition of number of unique verb forms is: If for…

What does big mean? By big romance languages I mean: Italian, French, Portuguese and Spanish, which according to wikipedia have 64, 77, 221 and 480 million native speakers respectively. …

Notorious Stacks — Stacks are everywhere. Even the most popular programming website www.stackoverflow.com has stack in its domain. Everyone seems to talk about stacks all the time. When we code in Java quite often our computers presents us with beautiful java.lang.StackOverFlowError. When we do it in Javascript we are blessed with Maximum call…