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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,929 posts.
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What's New in Python 3.11?
Latest features the newest Python release has to offer, that you should know about - built-in TOML support, better exceptions, and typing improvements.
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Bringing Forward the End-of-Life Date for Node.js 16
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
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Rust without the async (hard) part
A comparison between async Rust's and lunatic's approach to massive concurrency.
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Pyston-lite: our Python JIT as an extension module
Today we’re very excited to announce Pyston-lite, a JIT for Python that is easily installable as an extension module. We’ve taken the core technology of Pyston and repackaged it so that…
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What Happened to Perl 7?
With Perl 5.36.0 just around the corner, we thought that this is a good time to clarify plans for the future of the Perl programming language. We realised that the future was hammered out in a number of steps, across several months. This meant that there hasn't been a single statement we could refer people to. This…
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C# 11 Preview Updates – Raw string literals, UTF-8 and more
C# 11 features are coming along nicely and the most recent release features all sorts of goodies including updates to string literals, pattern matching, checked user-defined operators, and an update on !!.
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.NET 7 introduces Native AOT
.NET 7 Preview 3 is now available with enhancements to observability, startup times, codegen, GC regions, native AOT compilation, and more.
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Erlang/OTP 25.0 Release
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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Shopify invests in research for Ruby at scale
Shopify is investing on Ruby on Rails at scale by funding high-profile academics to focus their work towards Ruby and the needs of the Ruby community.
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Java record pattern matching in JDK 19
Enhance the Java programming language with record patterns to deconstruct record values. Record patterns and type patterns can be nested to enable a powerful, declarative, and composable form of data navigation and processing. This is a preview language feature .
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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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Our Experience Porting the YJIT Ruby Compiler to Rust
In this post, I want to give a nuanced perspective on our experience porting YJIT from C to Rust. I'll talk about the positives, but also discuss the things that we found challenging or suboptimal in our experience.
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Nim Version 1.6.6 Released
The Nim team is happy to announce version 1.6.6, our third patch release for Nim 1.6.
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Will Hare replace C? Or Rust? Or Zig? Or anything else?
If the short answer leaves you wanting, keep reading. I must admit that this sentence from the Hare announcement may have caused some confusion:
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Companies That Use Haskell in Production
Do you know why large companies like GitHub, Microsoft, Tesla, and Meta choose to use Haskell? Read our article on Haskell success stories to find out the answer.
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Racket v8.5
Racket version 8.5 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org. As of this release: Racket's new `-y` flag automatically keeps compiled files up to date, reducing subsequent load times. Error-message realms allow Racket-hosted langua...
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New C++ features in GCC 12
Version 12 of GCC implements much of the recent C++ standard, allows a number of previously prohibited constructs, and fixes some problematic behaviors.
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So Long Surrogates: How We Moved to UTF-8 in Haskell
We illustrate how we implemented UTF-8 support in alfred-margaret and give some insights into how we optimized our Haskell code for performance.
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Introduction to Haskell Typeclasses
In this article, we introduce you to typeclasses in Haskell: what they are, how they can be used, and how to define your own instances of typeclasses.
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GraalVM 22.1: Developer experience improvements, Apple Silicon builds, and more
Today we’re releasing GraalVM 22.1! This release brings new features and lots of improvements — we’ll cover the highlights in this blog…
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The Hare programming language
Hare is a systems programming language designed to be simple, stable, and robust. Hare uses a static type system, manual memory management, and a minimal runtime. It is well-suited to writing operating systems, system tools, compilers, networking software, and other low-level, high performance tasks.
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The Birth of Tcl
Tap, Click, Launch
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Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust (2020)
This post explains why Rust made sense for Discord to reimplement: how it was done, and the resulting performance improvements.
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The state of static analysis in the GCC 12 compiler
New features and a substantial reduction in false positives bring GCC's static analysis closer to being production-ready for C code.
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Get familiar with workspaces
Learn about Go workspaces and some of the workflows they enable.
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Ruby 3.2 preview 1 with support for WASM compilation
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 3.2.0-preview1. Ruby 3.2 adds many features and performance improvements.
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Pharo 10
Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment, focused on simplicity and immediate feedback.