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After exploring Java bytecode in previous years (2022, 2023, 2024), this year we’ll take an unexpected detour for a Java advent: instead of generating Java bytecode, we’ll use Java to build and execute LLVM IR, the intermediate language behind compilers like clang. Using Java’s Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) API…
I have a hobby. Whenever I see the comment // this should never happen in code, I try to find out the exact conditions under which it could happen. And in 90% of cases, I find a way to do just that. More often than not, the developer just hasn’t cons…
Earlier this year, the TypeScript team announced that we've been porting the compiler and language service to native code to take advantage of better raw
Nimony is a new compiler for a variant of Nim which will become Nim 3.0, eventually. However, Nim is a big language so replicating what it does will take its time.
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we're excited to release Unison 1.0. This version delivers a refined programming workflow and a mature toolchain. Join us as we celebrate this milestone and look ahead to the future of Unison.
_posted by Stephen De Gabrielle and John Clements_ We are pleased to announce Racket v9.0 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org/. **Racket 9.0 is here!** A major release is always exciting and Racket 9.0 is no exception in that it intr...
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 4.0.0-preview2. Ruby 4.0 updates its Unicode version to 17,0.0, and so on.
Happy Birthday, Go!
Announcing the release of .NET 10, the most productive, modern, secure, intelligent, and performant release of .NET yet. With updates across ASP.NET Core, C# 14, .NET MAUI, Aspire, and so much more.
Learn how we use macros to make it less painful to use Zig structs in C++ (and vice versa)
OCaml's type system catches state corruption at compile time. Type-safe SQL, automatic serialization, and immutability by default prevent entire categories of bugs.
In this blog post, we are proud to introduce Oxy - our modern proxy framework, developed using the Rust programming language
The Nim Team is happy to announce version 2.2.6, the third patch release for our stable release, Nim 2.2.
Go 1.25 includes a new experimental garbage collector, Green Tea.
Swift has matured significantly over the past decade — extending from cloud services to Windows applications, browser apps, and microcontrollers. Swift powers apps and services of all kinds, and thanks to its great interoperability, you can share code across platforms.
Dear Ruby community,
Elixir v1.19 released: type checking of protocols and anonymous functions, broader type inference, improved compile times, and more.
Abstract Rust is a non-Garbage Collected (GCed) language, but the lack of GC makes expressing data-structures that require shared ownership awkward, inefficient, or both. In this paper we explore a new design for, and implementation of, GC in Rust, called Alloy . Unlike previous approaches to GC in Rust, Alloy allows…
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Highlights of the Julia 1.12 release.
84 million requests a second means even rare bugs appear often. We'll reveal how we discovered a race condition in the Go arm64 compiler and got it fixed.
At AdaCore, we’re in the business of supporting people who develop high-integrity software, in particular for embedded systems. In terms of programming…
What is Typed Python? Why is it important for Python developers today? How to can you get started?
Tracing Rust AtomicU64::fetch_max from macro expansion and rustc intrinsics through LLVM atomicrmw umax down to the final x86-64 CAS loop.
Go 1.25 introduces experimental support for encoding/json/jsontext and encoding/json/v2 packages.
Listen in on Jane Street’s Ron Minsky as he has conversations with engineers working on everything from clock synchronization to reliable multicast, build systems to reconfigurable hardware. Get a peek at how Jane Street approaches problems, and how those ideas relate to tech more broadly.
Discover Ada through a fun, project-based tutorial! Learn the language’s clarity, safety, and modern features while building an SVG rosetta generator. A…
Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust , optimal , and reusable software.
