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Clojure - Deps and CLI Guide

In all the above scenarios you might want to use other Clojure and Java libraries (dependencies or 'deps'). These may be libraries you are writing locally, projects in git (e.g. on GitHub) or, commonly, libraries available in the Maven ecosystem and hosted by central repositories like Maven Central or Clojars.

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Swift 5 Exclusivity Enforcement

The Swift 5 release enables runtime checking of “Exclusive Access to Memory” by default in Release builds, further enhancing Swift’s capabilities as a safe language. In Swift 4, these runtime checks were only enabled in Debug builds. In this post, I’ll first explain what this change means for Swift developers before…

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Cargo's next few years

The Cargo team have been thinking about and discussing long-term plans for Cargo. In this post I'll talk about what we hope Cargo will look like around the time of the next edition (assuming there is another edition and that it happens in about three years, neither of which is

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Racket v7.2

_posted by Vincent St-Amour_ Racket version 7.2 is now available from http://racket-lang.org/ Racket-on-Chez is done in a useful sense, but we'll wait until it gets better before making it the default Racket implementation. For more information, see htt...

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Compilers for Free

I’m fascinated by programming, and by metaprogramming in particular. When Ruby programmers talk about metaprogramming they usually mean programs that write programs , because Ruby has various features — like BasicObject#instance_eval , Module#define_method and BasicObject#method_missing — which make it possible to…