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Zig 0.3.0 Released

Zig is an open-source programming language designed for robustness , optimality , and clarity . Zig is aggressively pursuing its goal of overthrowing C as the de facto language for system programming. Zig intends to be so practical that people find themselves using it even if they dislike it.

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Porting to GCC 14: C language issues

The GCC 14 release series differs from previous GCC releases in a number of ways . Some of these are a result of bug fixing, and some old behaviors have been intentionally changed to support new standards, or relaxed in standards-conforming ways to facilitate compilation or run-time performance.

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Clojure: Transducers

Transducers are composable algorithmic transformations. They are independent from the context of their input and output sources and specify only the essence of the transformation in terms of an individual element. Because transducers are decoupled from input or output sources, they can be used in many different…

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Racket v8.3

_posted by John Clements_ Racket version 8.3 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org. Racket removes syntax arming and disarming in favor of a simpler system of protected syntax operations, along with other updates to the syntax sys...

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Racket v6.11

_posted by Vincent St-Amour_ Racket version 6.11 is now available from http://racket-lang.org/ A bug preventing OneDrive users on Windows 10 Fall Creators update from opening files has been fixed. Typed Racket supports refinement types and depe...

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Half My Life with Perl

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…