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I think by now everybody reading this will have seen how the new generation of Large Language Models like ChatGPT are able to produce somewhat useful code. Like any advance in software development—from IDEs to high-level languages—this has generated some discussion on the future employment prospects in our field.
Exactly one month since the previous release, we are happy to give you curl 8.0.0 released on curl's official 25th birthday. This a major version number bump but without any ground-breaking changes or fireworks. We decided it was about time to reset the minor number down to more a manageable level and doing it exactly…
Prompt Engineering, also known as In-Context Prompting, refers to methods for how to communicate with LLM to steer its behavior for desired outcomes without updating the model weights. It is an empirical science and the effect of prompt engineering methods can vary a lot among models, thus requiring heavy…
Time flies when you are having fun. Today is curl's 25th birthday. The curl project started out very humbly as a small renamed URL transfer tool that almost nobody knew about for the first few years. It scratched a personal itch of mine, Me back then I made that first curl release and I've packaged … Continue reading…
One of the least well known, and therefore least used, features of many terminal emulators is bracketed paste mode . When you are in bracketed paste mode and you paste into your terminal the content will be wrapped by the sequences \e[200~ and \e[201~ .
Digs into a unexpected memory leak when using Zig's FixedBufferAllocator
Full Slice Expressions in Golang — A Rare Slice Trick
I’ve had the pleasure of having had to analyse multi-gigabyte JSON dumps in a project context recently. JSON itself is actually a rather pleasant format to consume, as it’s human-readable and there is a lot of tooling available for it. JQ allows expressing sophisticated processing steps in a single command line, and…
Async/await was added to the C# language over a decade ago and has transformed how we write scalable code for .NET. But how does it really work? In this post, we take a deep dive into its internals.
Hear from a Warp engineer why building a UI in Rust is challenging. Learn about innovative solutions and approaches to tackle its strict memory management and lack of inheritance.
React SPAs still matter: the new React docs push frameworks like Next.js, but dashboards behind a login need no SEO, and SSR adds server load.
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Since the earliest days of Mac OS X, Apple has complied with the licenses for the dozens of open source components it includes in the OS by posting (sometimes a little belatedly) updated versions of the source code to its Open Source at Apple web page.This resource is useful primarily to developer
How Visual Basic became the world’s most dominant programming environment, its sudden fall from grace, and why its influence is still shaping the future of software development.
I have a favourite joke when teaching new and delete in C++. Alas, I believe that attendees are now less likely to have seen the show it references. Therefore, I present it here for your enjoyment (or not).
The library for web and native user interfaces
Today we're excited to announce the release of TypeScript 5.0! This release brings many new features, while aiming to make TypeScript smaller, simpler,
We are excited to announce the release of PyTorch® 2.0 which we highlighted during the PyTorch Conference on 12/2/22! PyTorch 2.0 offers the same eager-mode development and user experience, while fundamentally changing and supercharging...
Codon is a new tool that compiles Python code to run it more efficiently and effectively while allowing for customization and adaptation to various domains.
This semester, I am teaching Compilers , and I'm quite happy with how I covered parsing this year. Specifically, I taught students to build a top-down LR parser and it seemed to go relatively well.
Introducing new generative AI capabilities in Google Cloud and Google Workspace, plus PaLM API and MakerSuite for developers.
In this post, we will discuss recent results from Immunant and Galois in extending C2Rust to emit memory-safe Rust in certain cases. With this work we aim to shift a meaningful part of the translation burden from the human to the machine. Up until now, C2Rust has only been able to translate C to unsafe Rust that is no…
Ferris meme Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. I have been writing C++ professionally for the last 4 years and 3 months ago I started a new job in Rust....
Some programming languages like Java or Scala offer more than one way to express a concept of “lack of value”. Traditionally, a special null value is used to...
After needing to do a deep dive on the venv module (which I will explain later in this blog post as to why), I thought I would explain how virtual environments work to help demystify them. Why do virtual environments exist? Back in my the day, there was no concept
