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Go 2, here we come
How Go 2 proposals will be evaluated, selected, and shipped.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 383 posts.
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Bugs Rust won't catch
In April 2026, Canonical disclosed 44 CVEs in uutils, the Rust reimplementation of GNU coreutils that ships by default since 25.10. Most of them came out of an external audit commissioned ahead of the 26.04 LTS. I read through the list and thought th…
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Hack: a new programming language for HHVM
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Rewriting the Ruby parser
At Shopify, we have spent the last year writing a new Ruby parser, which we’ve called YARP (Yet Another Ruby Parser). As of the date of this post, YARP can parse a semantically equivalent syntax tree to Ruby 3.3 on every Ruby file in Shopify’s main codebase, GitHub’s main codebase, CRuby, and the 100 most popular gems…
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RBS, Ruby’s new type signature language
Introducing RBS, Ruby’s new type signature language
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Comparing Elixir and Go
Compare Elixir and Go for high concurrency solutions. Understand their differences in programming styles, concurrency models, and error handling. Learn more!
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Clang Is Now Used to Build Chrome for Windows
As of Chrome 64, Chrome for Windows is compiled with Clang. We now use Clang to build Chrome for all platforms it runs on: macOS, iOS, Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and Windows.
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How I Start: Haskell
My name is Chris. I teach Haskell to people that are new to programming and as well as long-time coders. Haskell is a general purpose programming language that is most useful to mere mortals.
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Reason 3
Reason lets you write simple, fast and quality type safe code while leveraging both the JavaScript & OCaml ecosystems.
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TypeScript 4.1
Today we're proud to release TypeScript 4.1! If you're unfamiliar with TypeScript, it's a language that builds on JavaScript by adding syntax for type
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Officially Qualified – Ferrocene
It’s official: Ferrocene is ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 qualified! You can even find the certificate in TÜV SÜDs certificate database. This means we achieved qualification for the open source Ferrocene toolchain. Ferrocene 23.06.0, based on Rust 1...
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JSC loves ES6
Update: The previous version of this post showed performance data from ARES-6 version 1.0.
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Zig 0.9.0
Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust , optimal , and reusable software.
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How we secretly introduced Haskell and got away with it
Channable is a tool for marketeers and webshop owners that connects shops to market places, affiliate platforms, and comparison websites. We download product data through a feed or API connection, clean it up using our configurable rules engine, and we send the transformed data to any platform.
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Python Language Summit: Python Without the GIL
If you peruse the archives of language-summit blogs, you’ll find that one theme comes up again and again : the dream of Python without the GIL. Continuing this venerable tradition, Sam Gross kicked off the 2022 Language Summit by giving the attendees an update on nogil , a project that took the Python community by…
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TypeScript 5.2's new keyword: 'Using'
TypeScript 5.2 introduces 'using', a keyword that disposes anything with a `Symbol.dispose` function upon leaving scope, making resource management easier.
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Why Julia
it's faster than other scripting languages, allowing you to have the rapid development of Python/MATLAB/R while producing code that is as fast as C/Fortran
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Secure Randomness in Go 1.22
ChaCha8Rand is a new cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator used in Go 1.22.
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How we rolled out one of the largest Python 3 migrations
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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Announcing .NET Core 2.0
.NET Core 2.0 is available today as a final release. You can start developing with it at the command line, in your favorite text editor, in Visual Studio 2017 15.3, Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio for Mac. It is ready for production workloads, on your own hardware or your favorite cloud, like Microsoft Azure. […]