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All in with Nuitka

After more than 10 years of working on the Python compiler Nuitka, and at the age of 50, I have finally decided to take the plunge. My projects “Nuitka” and “Nuitka commercial” are now my day job , and I quit my work in the Air Traffic Community, after working on ARTAS (a software to create an Air Situation Picture…

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PHP 8.2

PHP 8.2 is a major update of the PHP language. Readonly classes, null, false, and true as stand-alone types, deprecated dynamic properties, performance improvements and more

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Why Rust?

I've been a programmer for 20+ years, and few things excite me as much as Rust. My background is mostly in C++, though I have also worked in Python and Lua, and dabbled in many more languages. I started writing Rust around 2014, and since 2018 I've been writing Rust full time. In my spare time I've developed a popular…

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JEP 431: Sequenced Collections

Introduce new interfaces to represent collections with a defined encounter order. Each such collection has a well-defined first element, second element, and so forth, up to the last element. It also provides uniform APIs for accessing its first and last elements, and for processing its elements in reverse order.