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New SBCL versions are usually released at the end of each month: check the Sourceforge File List to see the current version. The new features of the two most recent SBCL releases are listed below.
SeamlessM4T allows people to communicate effortlessly through speech and text across different languages.
Arrays are unique objects inside the JVM, and understanding their structure makes for better coding.
What helps a programming language gain traction? Patrick Martin remembers why he used to use Delphi.
The first announcement of MoonBit
Pattern matching and exhaustive switches come together to enable functional style data models that blend seamlessly with Dart’s…
This release is the Reference Implementation of version 21 of the Java SE Platform, as specified by JSR 396 in the Java Community Process.
Go 1.21 expands Go's commitment to backward compatibility, so that every new Go toolchain is the best possible implementation of older toolchain semantics as well.
A detailed explanation of why Elixir uses a dot when invoking anonymous functions
Tech team thanks Rich Hickey for leadership as he retires from his position at Nu.
Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust , optimal , and reusable software.
The Nim team is proud and happy to announce Nim version 2.0.
Linguistics and genetics combine to suggest a new hybrid hypothesis for the origin of the Indo-European languages
About LPython is a Python compiler that can compile type-annotated Python code to optimized machine code. LPython offers several backends such as LLVM, C, C++, WASM, Julia and x86. LPython features quick compilation and runtime performance, as we show in the benchmarks in this blog. LPython also offers Just-In-Time…
Working with Python multiprocessing module can be difficult at times. Learn what you can do with it.
Specify UTF-8 as the default charset of the standard Java APIs. With this change, APIs that depend upon the default charset will behave consistently across all implementations, operating systems, locales, and configurations.
Learn Ruby metaprogramming: call methods dynamically with send, define them at runtime with define_method, and handle missing calls with method_missing.
Examining the misleading claims in a published paper about Elixir security
Learning Elixir when you already know Ruby? Here are the three most important things you need to understand
Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.
A community and blog for embedded software makers
I’ve been saying the upcoming 0.11.0 release of Zig would have async/await/suspend/resume for 9 months now. You can probably find 10 different places where I promised in writing or in front of a camera that this next release would have this feature.
Hello Rustaceans! Sometimes, good things come in many. For example: birthdays! 🎉 As it just so happens, we have 3 big things to celebrate: It's the 10th anniversary of Florian publicly posting his first Rust code on September 28th, 2013! Ferrous...
We are announcing a new patch release of the Crystal 1.9 series with two bugfixes.
Object Pascal is a modern, readable, fast, type-safe, cross-platform OOP programming language. It is also easy to pick up.
A short status update on the effort to bring a type system into Elixir.
Call JavaScript functions at bundle-time and inline results into the AST
Wondering about Rust? We're addressing rumors and providing insight gained from years of early adoption of Rust here at Google.
