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Announcing TypeScript 3.9
Today we're excited to announce the release of TypeScript 3.9! If you're unfamiliar with TypeScript, it's a language that builds on JavaScript by adding
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Elixir for Ruby developers: the three most important differences
Learning Elixir when you already know Ruby? Here are the three most important things you need to understand
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Pyodide 314.0: Python packages can now publish WebAssembly wheels to PyPI
We are pleased to announce the Pyodide 314.0 release. This release focuses on standardization and packaging, marking a significant milestone in the Python-in-the-browser ecosystem. PEP 783 is Accepted: What Does It Mean? The acceptance of PEP 783: Emscripten packaging marks perhaps the most exciting change in the…
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Racket-On-Chez Status: January 2019
posted by Matthew Flatt For background information about Racket on Chez Scheme (a.k.a. Racket CS), see the original announcement, last January's report, and the report at Scheme Workshop 2018. Racket on Chez Scheme is done in a useful sense. All...
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A little thing to love about Perl 6 and COBOL
By now you've heard the announcement that the Perl 6 team is cautiously hopeful that Perl 6.0.0 will be released this year. There are three things they need to finish:
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SBCL: New in Version 2.1.0
New SBCL versions are usually released at the end of each month: check the Sourceforge File List to see the current version. The new features of all SBCL releases are listed below.
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Nim partners with Status.im
We're incredibly excited to announce the new partnership between Status and Nim.
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Parser Combinators in Elixir
Learn what parser combinators are, what they are made of, and how to make your own CSV parser using NimbleParsec, a parser combinator library written in Elixir.
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Etsy’s Journey to TypeScript
Over the past few years, Etsy’s Web Platform team has spent a lot of time bringing our frontend code up to date. It was only...
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Python 3.5 type hinting in PyCharm 5
Python 3.5 introduces type hinting to help code-writing during development. Let’s take a look at this feature and show it in action.MotivationSome folks, but not all, like help from their tools
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A new programming language for high-performance computers
Researchers at MIT CSAIL developed a new programming language specifically for high-performance computing. With the prototype, says PhD student Amanda Liu, “speed and correctness do not have to compete ... they can go together, hand-in-hand.”
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Better performance in App Engine with new Lisp language Clojure
This post is part of the Who's @ Google I/O , a series of blog posts that give a closer look at developers who'll be speaking or demoing at ...
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Nim Programming Language 0.14.0 released
The Nim programming language is a concise, fast programming language that compiles to C, C++ and JavaScript.
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Why developers should be force-fed state machines
This post is meant to create more awareness about state machines in the web application developer crowd. If you don’t know what state machines are, please read up on them first. Wikipedia is a good place to start, as always. State machines are awesome The main reason for using state machines is to help the design…
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The Rust borrow checker from a different perspective
Today we’re looking at the rust borrow checker from a different perspective. As you may know, the borrow checker is designed to safely handle memory allocation and ownership, preventing accessess to invalid memory and ensuring data-race freedom. This is a form of resource management: the borrow checker is tracking…
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Inside cpyext: Why emulating CPython C API is so Hard
cpyext is PyPy's subsystem which provides a compatibility layer to compile and run CPython C extensions inside PyPy. Often people ask ...
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Crystal 0.27.0 released
Crystal 0.27.0 has been released!
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The Green Tea Garbage Collector
Go 1.25 includes a new experimental garbage collector, Green Tea.
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Ruby 2.6.0-preview1 Released
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.6.0-preview1.
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Jane Street and the OCaml Compiler (2018) [video]
Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm and liquidity provider with a unique focus on technology and collaborative problem solving.
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What Every C Programmer Should Know About Undefined Behavior #2/3
In Part 1 of our series, we discussed what undefined behavior is, and how it allows C and C++ compilers to produce higher performance applications than "safe" languages. This post talks about how "
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LuaJit 2.0 is out
LuaJIT is only made available as source code from a git repository. To access this repository, you need to install the git command for your operating system. Please refer to the git version control system documentation for details.
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Squeak 5 is out
From: Chris Muller, In the 17 months since Squeak 4.5 was released, a huge development effort took place to create the next generation virtual-machine for the Squeak / Pharo / Newspeak family of pr…
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My OTP 21 Highlights
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