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A 10x Faster TypeScript
Embarking on a native port of the existing TypeScript compiler and toolset to achieve a 10x performance speed-up.
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The most popular blog posts about programming languages on Hacker News. 1,929 posts.
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Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
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Grumpy: Go running Python
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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JavaScript Temporal is coming
A new way to handle dates and times is being added to JavaScript. Let's take a look at Temporal, what problems it solves, the current state, and what you'll find in the new documentation about it on MDN.
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Node v4.0.0
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
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PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux
Today’s customers live in a multi-platform, multi-cloud, multi-OS world – that’s just reality. This world brings new challenges and customers need tools to make everything work together.
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Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language
From Elixir v1.20, every program is now gradually type checked in search for verified bugs and typing violations.
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Pkl, a Programming Language for Configuration
We are delighted to announce the open source first release of Pkl (pronounced Pickle ), a programming language for producing configuration.
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Julia 1.0
Announcing the release of Julia 1.0. The much anticipated 1.0 release of Julia is the culmination of...
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We found a bug in Go's ARM64 compiler
84 million requests a second means even rare bugs appear often. We'll reveal how we discovered a race condition in the Go arm64 compiler and got it fixed.
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Taking PHP Seriously
Slack uses PHP for most of its server-side application logic, which is an unusual choice these days. Why did we choose to build a new project in this language? Should you? Most programmers who have only casually used PHP know two things about it: that it is a bad language, which they would never use if…
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Go 2, here we come
How Go 2 proposals will be evaluated, selected, and shipped.
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How I write HTTP services in Go after 13 years
Mat Ryer, principal engineer at Grafana Labs and host of the Go Time podcast, shares what he’s learned from more than a dozen years of writing HTTP services in Go.
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Nim 1.0
The Nim Team is very proud and happy to announce the much-anticipated version 1.0 of the language.
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Ruby 3.0
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 3.0.0. From 2015 we developed hard toward Ruby 3, whose goal is performance, concurrency, and Typing. Especial...
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Go 1.18
Go 1.18 adds generics, native fuzzing, workspace mode, performance improvements, and more.
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Go 1.27
Go 1.27 adds generic methods, encoding/json/v2 package, uuid package, faster memory allocation, goroutine leak profiles, and more.
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Ruby 4.0.0
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 4.0.0.Ruby 4.0 introduces “Ruby Box” and “ZJIT”, and adds many improvements.
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Shipping Rust code in Firefox
TL;DR: Starting with Firefox 48, Mozilla is shipping its first production Rust code, with more to come! Mozilla ❤ Rust It's hard to believe it's been almost seven years since ...
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Toward Go 2
How we will all work together toward Go 2.
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Crystal 1.0 – What to expect
The release of the first major release of Crystal arrives after many years of hard work. With thousands of contributions from people worldwide, it was finally possible to find consensus for what truly mattered for 1.0 and what could wait for future releases. Getting here wasn’t an easy journey, filled with enriching…
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Migrating away from Rust
Why we moved Architect of Ruin from Rust and Bevy to C# and Unity in January 2025, and how the three-day experiment that decided it went.
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Node.js v6.0 Released
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
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TypeScript 7
Today we are proud to announce the availability of TypeScript 7, a 10x faster native port of TypeScript! Since its early days, TypeScript has promised to
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Announcing .NET Core 1.0
Updated (2017): See .NET Core Releases to learn about newer releases. We are excited to announce the release of .NET Core 1.0, ASP.NET Core 1.0 and Entity Framework Core 1.0, available on Windows, OS X and Linux! .NET Core is a cross-platform, open source, and modular .NET platform for creating modern web apps…