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Node.js 15.0
This blog was written by Bethany Griggs, with additional contributions from the Node.js Technical Steering Committee.
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Fighting Rust's Expressive Type System
Herein I share an experienced developer's first foray into a real-world Rust project. It focuses closely on the type system, and the key insights I needed to begin "thinking in Rust". Written for those getting to grips with the language, it will be especially useful if your background isn't functional programming.
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First AI model that translates 100 languages without relying on English
Facebook AI is introducing M2M-100, the first multilingual machine translation model that can translate between any pair of 100 languages without relying on English data.
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PEP 635 – Structural Pattern Matching: Motivation and Rationale
This PEP provides the motivation and rationale for PEP 634 (“Structural Pattern Matching: Specification”). First-time readers are encouraged to start with PEP 636, which provides a gentler introduction to the concepts, syntax and semantics of patterns.
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A brief introduction to BEAM
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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PEP 634 – Structural Pattern Matching: Specification
This PEP provides the technical specification for the match statement. It replaces PEP 622, which is hereby split in three parts:
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Nim 1.4
We are very proud to announce Nim version 1.4 after six months of continuous development! Other than version 1.0, this is probably the biggest Nim release yet and we’re very excited to release it!
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Introduction to ARC/ORC in Nim
Nim is advancing towards more efficient memory management models. Let's talk about ARC/ORC and see how they will change the way memory works in Nim.
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Swift Algorithms
I’m excited to announce Swift Algorithms, a new open-source package of sequence and collection algorithms, along with their related types.
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Elixir 1.11
Elixir v1.11 is out with improvements to the compiler and tighter integration with Erlang/OTP.
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Swift Atomics
I’m delighted to announce Swift Atomics, a new open source package that enables direct use of low-level atomic operations in Swift code. The goal of this library is to enable intrepid systems programmers to start building synchronization constructs (such as concurrent data structures) directly in Swift.
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Programming language notation is a barrier to entry
Research in programming languages offers powerful tools, but our systems of notation stymie outsiders. Can we change our notational approach and broaden our audience—without compromising on c…
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A Brief Guide to OTP in Elixir
Learn about OTP, a set of tools and libraries that Elixir inherits from Erlang.
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PyPy 7.3.2 triple release: Python 2.7, 3.6, and 3.7
The PyPy team is proud to release version 7.3.2 of PyPy, which includes three different interpreters: PyPy2.7, which is an interpreter su...
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Ruby 3.0 Preview 1
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 3.0.0-preview1.
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Swift System Is Now Open Source
In June, Apple introduced Swift System, a new library for Apple platforms that provides idiomatic interfaces to system calls and low-level currency types. Today, I’m excited to announce that we’re open-sourcing System and adding Linux support! Our vision is for System to eventually act as the single home for low-level…
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Swift on Windows
The Swift project is introducing new downloadable Swift toolchain images for Windows! These images contain development components needed to build and run Swift code on Windows.
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A Picture of Java in 2020
This year Java hit an incredible milestone and reached the grand old age of 25 years. We celebrated its jubilee by running a special online Java day event, where lots of expert speakers shared their e
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C11 and C17 Standard Support Arriving in MSVC
Please see our Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8 Preview 3 release notes for more of our latest features. Update: Windows 10 SDK version 2104 has been
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Go’s Major Versioning Sucks – From a Fanboy
Learn Go (Golang) by writing real code in this interactive course. Practice structs, interfaces, errors, concurrency, and idiomatic backend patterns.
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Statement Regarding the Zen Programming Language
Original English version available below. We are thankful to 株式会社HYPERIA and all the members of the Zig community that helped us with the Japanese translation.
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C’s Biggest Mistake (2009)
C is arguably the world’s most successful programming language. Its success has, of course, endlessly tempted people to improve upon it. Thus, C is probably the patriarch of the longest list of languages. Notable among these are C++, the D programming language, and most recently, Go. There are endless discussion…
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What Clojure Spec is and what you can do with it
This is the blog version of a talk I gave on the 2017-12-13 at the Athens Clojure Meetup, which was kindly hosted by Skroutz . The video of the talk is available (the talk was given in Greek, but there are English subtitles). This blog entry is not an exact transcript of the talk, I've added links and more information…
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Ruby adds experimental support for rightward assignments
Previously ruby used to support only Rvalue to be assigned to Lvalue. Now, it adds support for Rightward assignment
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How to speed up the Rust compiler one last time
Due to recent changes at Mozilla my time working on the Rust compiler is drawing to a close. I am still at Mozilla, but I will be focusing on Firefox work for the foreseeable future.