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Ruby 3.3
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 3.3.0. Ruby 3.3 adds a new parser named Prism, uses Lrama as a parser generator, adds a new pure-Ruby JIT comp...
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Interview about Austral, a systems programming language with linear types
Austral is a new systems programming language. It uses linear types to provide memory safety and capability-secure code, and is designed to be simple enough to be understood by a single person, with a focus on readability, maintainability, and modularity.
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What's Going on with Language Rankings?
As the inbound DMs and emails attest, at least a few of you out there having been waiting for RedMonk to drop our latest version of the programming language rankings. Our apologies about the delay: here’s our update on the process. Normally we run these rankings twice a year, with the goal of using publicly
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Tools for Learning LLVM TableGen
TableGen is a language used within the LLVM project for generating a variety of files, when manual maintenance would be very difficult. For example, it is used to define all of the instructions that can be used on a particular architecture.
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Mastering Nim, 2nd edition
Discover the secret of Nim!
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Onyx, a new programming language powered by WebAssembly
# What is Onyx? **Onyx** is a new programming language featuring a modern, expressive syntax, strict type safety, blazingly-fast build times, and out-o...
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General Availability of the AWS SDK for Rust
We’re excited to announce that the AWS SDK for Rust is now generally available and supported for production use. The AWS SDK for Rust provides an idiomatic, type-safe API, along with the benefits of the Rust language such as performance, reliability, and productivity. The SDK supports modern Rust language features…
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Elixir at Ramp
Discover the latest in finance automation that increases the lifespan of businesses from the Ramp team
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PHP 8.3
PHP 8.3 is a major update of the PHP language. It contains many new features, such as explicit typing of class constants, deep-cloning of readonly properties and additions to the randomness functionality. As always it also includes performance improvements, bug fixes, and general cleanup.
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Fourteen Years of Go
Happy Birthday, Go!
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Hashmaps in Factor are faster than in Zig
Recently, I was looking at the Zig programming language . As I often do, I started implementing a few typical things in new languages to learn them. Well, one of them was super slow and Zig is supposed to be super fast, so I was trying to understand where the disconnect was and compare it to Factor !
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On-Crash Backtraces in Swift
The new Swift 5.9 release contains a number of helpful, new features for debugging code, including an out-of-process, interactive crash handler to inspect crashes in real time, the ability to trigger the debugger for just-in-time debugging, along with concurrency-aware backtracing to make it easier to understand…
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Officially Qualified – Ferrocene
It’s official: Ferrocene is ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 qualified! You can even find the certificate in TÜV SÜDs certificate database. This means we achieved qualification for the open source Ferrocene toolchain. Ferrocene 23.06.0, based on Rust 1...
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Sometimes, it is a compiler bug (2022)
My journey in finding and fixing a bug in a C++ toolchain
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Java JEP 461: Stream Gatherers
Enhance the Stream API to support custom intermediate operations. This will allow stream pipelines to transform data in ways that are not easily achievable with the existing built-in intermediate operations. This is a preview API .
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A new F# compiler feature: graph-based type-checking
Graph-based type-checking is a new F# compiler flag that allows the compiler to type-check files in a project in parallel whenever possible.
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What's new in C# 12: overview
It′s mid-fall which means a new version of C# is coming soon. It′s time to find out what updates will soon appear in the language. Although C#12 has fewer features than previous versions, it still...
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Mojo is now available on Mac
We released Mojo local download for Linux systems on September 7th, and in just over a month we’ve seen tens of thousands of downloads and amazing community projects such as llama.🔥and Infermo. We deeply value your feedback, as Mojicians, and we appreciate every single PR, feature request, and bug report.
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C++ Modules: Packaging Story
Experimenting with C++ Modules from the package management and build system perspective
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Mypy 1.6
We’ve just uploaded mypy 1.6 to the Python Package Index ( PyPI ). Mypy is a static type checker for Python. This release includes new fe...
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Modern Pascal is still in the race (2022)
A recent poll on the Lazarus/FPC forum highlighted a fact: pascal coders are older than most coders. Usually, at our age, we should be managers, not developers. But we like coding
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Strong static typing, a hill I'm willing to die on
This is a post about strong static typing, why I feel strongly about the topic, and some of the ways we utilize the Rust type system at Svix.
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AdaCore Announces Gnat Pro for Rust
For the first time, AdaCore’s GNAT Pro subscribers will be able to develop safety- and security-certifiable embedded applications using Rust while…
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Rust vs Go: A Hands-On Comparison
Rust versus Go is a controversial topic that pops up from time. In this post, we will compare both languages in the context of web development by writing a small web service which shows weather data in both languages.
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Deconstructing Go Type Parameters
Why the function signatures in the slices packages are so complicated.