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When using the Java programming language, one of the most common pitfalls is trying to access a member of a null reference, causing a NullPointerException to be thrown. Kotlin offers protection against this by baking nullable and non-nullable types into the type system. This helps eliminate NullPointerExceptions from…
V8 v6.9 features reduced memory usage through embedded built-ins, faster WebAssembly startup through Liftoff, better DataView and WeakMap performance, and much more!
gfx-rs is a project bringing efficient cross-platform graphics to rust. This blog supposedly hosts the major milestones, concepts, and recaps of the project.
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Announcing the Twilio API for WhatsApp. Simply call a WhatsApp API in the Twilio app style and integrate with your language and framework of choice.
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
The entire V8 compiler pipeline was overhauled and shipped with Node.js version 8. This post investigates what speed improvements we can expect as a result.
TypeScript 3.0 is here! Today marks a new milestone in the TypeScript journey, serving JavaScript users everywhere.If you're unfamiliar with TypeScript,
Lewis Van Winkle, he creator of F5Bot—a free service that emails you when selected keywords are mention on Reddit, Hacker News, or Lobsters—explains in detail how it works, and how it's able to scrape million of Reddit comments per day.
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Today we’ll be looking at how to connect the protocols powering Mastodon in the simplest way possible to enter the federated network. We will use static files, standard command-line tools, and some simple Ruby scripting, although the functionality should be easily adaptable to other programming languages. First…
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This page is a "brief" summary of some of the huge number of improvements in GCC 8. You may also want to check out our Porting to GCC 8 page and the full GCC documentation .
Elixir v1.7 includes many quality of life improvements, focusing on documentation, Logger and ExUnit, as well as a new Elixir Core team member.
A simpler solution for a complicated problem
Announcing Go Cloud, for portable cloud programming with Go.
Over the last year, our team has built a beautiful and advanced Smart Cities system using functional languages. I wrote this document to explain our technology choices to stakeholders and partners.
The vast majority of my posts about random number generation have focused on looking at the properties of different generation schemes. But, perhaps surprisingly, the performance of your randomized a
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WebAssembly is a performance optimised virtual machine that was shipped in all four major browsers earlier this year. It is a nascent technology and the current version is very much an MVP. This blog post takes a look at the WebAssembly roadmap and the features it might gain in the near future.
