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Some time ago I was talking about an ahead-of-time Ruby compiler. We started the project with certain goals and hypotheses in mind, and while the original compiler is at nearly 90% completion, there are still those other 90% that needs to be done.
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 3.4.0. Ruby 3.4 adds it block parameter reference,changes Prism as default parser, adds Happy Eyeballs Version...
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Improve startup time by making the classes of an application instantly available, in a loaded and linked state, when the HotSpot Java Virtual Machine starts. Achieve this by monitoring the application during one run and storing the loaded and linked forms of all classes in a cache for use in subsequent runs. Lay a…
How to handle and report errors effectively in Rust applications is a common question. This blog shares our experience organizing variant types of Error in a complex system like GreptimeDB, from how an error is defined to how to log the error or present it to end-users. Such a system is composed of multiple components…
I had never met Randal Schwartz before, but when I reached out to him about contributing to year 25 of the Perl Advent Calendar, he immediately agreed. This year I wanted to try some new things and Randal suggested giving a Perl-specific talk which he had given once before, but which was lacking in recording quality…
Meta has been on a years-long undertaking to translate our entire Android codebase from Java to Kotlin. Today, despite having one of the largest Android codebases in the world, we’re well pas…
We are adding a new generated code API to Go Protobuf.
appliedscience.studio ships with Moz DA 25 and 70 referring domains — a rare descriptive .studio pickup. Listed at $100.
PHP 8.4 is a major update of the PHP language. It contains many new features, such as property hooks, asymmetric visibility, an updated DOM API, performance improvements, bug fixes, and general cleanup.
How we scrape callstack information from the LuaJIT engine for profiling
Python 3.13 is out and it's time to run some benchmarks to see how well it performs with the new free-threaded mode.
As for dangling pointers and for ownership, this model detects all possible errors . This means that we can guarantee that a program is free of uses of invalidated pointers.
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Learn about jank's upcoming LLVM IR codegen, Rust interop plans, and more.
One of the interesting aspects of a concatenative language like Factor is that blocks of logic can be easily extracted and easily reused since they apply logic to objects on the stack .
Rama is a platform with huge applicability, able to express all the computation and storage for a backend at any scale. Just like the UNIX philosophy of composing simple programs to do more complex…
This is a simple experimental Lisp compiler, written in uLisp, that will compile a Lisp function into RISC-V machine code. You can run the compiler on the RISC-V core of a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (or another RP2350-based board):
September 28, 2024 @ 5:50 am · Filed by Mark Liberman under Linguistics in the comics
Tcl/Tk 9.0 is the latest major release of both Tcl and Tk. It features many new capabilities, and presents some incompatibilities with Tcl/Tk 8.
F# is not just for math and big data, it's a general purpose language that will greatly reduce the amount of bugs in your code.
We’re delighted to announce the general availability of Swift 6. This is a major new release that expands Swift to more platforms and domains.
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” — Kierkegaard
Clojure 1.12.0 is now available! Find download and usage information on the Downloads page.
This article explores the design decisions of typing lists and tuples in Elixir within a sound gradual type system.
Next-gen compile-time-checked builder generator, named function's arguments, and more!
We’re excited to announce a new open source Swift package for homomorphic encryption in Swift: swift-homomorphic-encryption.
Dr. John Ousterhout is a computer science luminary who has made significant contributions to the fie
Not doing anything with it is exactly the point.
