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PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux
Today’s customers live in a multi-platform, multi-cloud, multi-OS world – that’s just reality. This world brings new challenges and customers need tools to make everything work together.
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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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Ruby 3.0
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 3.0.0. From 2015 we developed hard toward Ruby 3, whose goal is performance, concurrency, and Typing. Especial...
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The Next Step for Generics
An updated generics design draft, and a translation tool for experimentation
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HolyJit: A New Hope
tl;dr: We believe there is a safer and easier way of writing a Jit. Current State Today, all browsers’ Jits share a similar design. This ...
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Announcing Topaz: A New Ruby
I’m extraordinarily pleased to today announce Topaz, a project I started 10 months ago, to create a brand new implementation of the Ruby programming language (version 1.9.3).
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Ruby 3.2’s YJIT is Production-Ready
YJIT, a just-in-time (JIT) implementation on top of CRuby built at Shopify, is now production-ready and delivering major improvements to performance and speed. Maxime shares the updates that have been made in this newest version of YJIT, and future plans for further optimization.
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Static types in Python
Over the last few years, static type checkers have become available for popular dynamic languages like PHP (Hack) and JavaScript (Flow and TypeScript), and have seen wide adoption. Two years ago, a provisional syntax for static type annotations was added to Python 3. However, static types in Python …
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Translating Quake 3 into Rust
The Rust-loving team at Immunant has been hard at work on C2Rust, a migration framework that takes the drudgery out of migrating to Rust. Our goal is to make safety improvements to the translated Rust automatically where we can, and help the programmer do the same where we cannot. First, however, we have to build a…
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Type resolution redesign, with language changes to taste
This page contains entries for the year 2026 . Other years are available in the Devlog archive page .
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AdaCore and Ferrous Systems Joining Forces to Support Rust
AdaCore is the leading provider of commercial software solutions for Ada, C and C++ — helping developers build safe and secure software that matters.
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Next steps toward Go 2
What Go 2 language changes should we include in Go 1.14?
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Helix: Rust and Ruby, Without the Glue
Rust + Ruby, Without The Glue. This post is a write-up of the talk I gave at RailsConf 2016. You can find the slides [https://speakerdeck.com/chancancode/turbo-rails-with-rust] here. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There's a lot to love about Ruby – the sweet syntax…
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Python 3 Is Winning Library Developer Support
https://notebooks.azure.com/library/rJUgQ81mnpo In 3 months, Python 3 will be better supported than Python 2. Are you using Python 3 for your development?
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Why use Pascal?
Object Pascal is a modern, readable, fast, type-safe, cross-platform OOP programming language. It is also easy to pick up.
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Self-hosted x86 back end is now default in debug mode
This page contains entries for the year 2025 . Other years are available in the Devlog archive page .
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Cloudflare Workers now supports COBOL
COBOL is often a source of amusement for programmers because it is seen as old, verbose, clunky, and difficult to maintain. COBOL can now be used to write code for Cloudflare’s serverless platform Workers.
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I can’t believe that I can prove that it can sort
When an enthusiastic Ada programmer and a SPARK expert pair up to prove the most "stupid" sorting algorithm, lessons are learned! Join us in this…
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P: A programming language for asynchrony, fault-tolerance and uncertainty
To address the challenges of asynchronous computation, we have developed the P programming language for modeling and specifying protocols.
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Rust fact vs. fiction: 5 Insights from Google's Rust journey in 2022
Wondering about Rust? We're addressing rumors and providing insight gained from years of early adoption of Rust here at Google.
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Go Modules in 2019
What the Go team is planning for Go modules in 2019.
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A Proposal for Adding Generics to Go
Generics is entering the language change proposal process
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Red Programming Language 0.6.3
This new Red release contains ~830 commits, closes 86 issues , and brings a large number of new features. The main one is official support...
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Zig 0.5.0 Release Notes
Zig is a general-purpose programming language designed for robustness , optimality , and maintainability . Zig is aggressively pursuing its goal of overthrowing C as the de facto language for system programming. Zig intends to be so practical that people find themselves using it, because it "just works".