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State of Python 3.13 performance: Free-threading
Python 3.13 is out and it's time to run some benchmarks to see how well it performs with the new free-threaded mode.
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The new Clang _ExtInt feature provides exact bitwidth integer types
Author: Erich Keane, Compiler Frontend Engineer, Intel Corporation Earlier this month I finally committed a patch to implement the extended-integer type class, _ExtInt after nearly two and a half years of design and implementation.
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Rails adds support for Fiber-safe ActiveRecord ConnectionPools
ActiveRecord's ConnectionPool is now fiber-safe! Configure config.active_support.isolation_level for better throughput.
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A new F# compiler feature: graph-based type-checking
Graph-based type-checking is a new F# compiler flag that allows the compiler to type-check files in a project in parallel whenever possible.
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JEP 450: Compact Object Headers
Reduce the size of object headers in the HotSpot JVM from between 96 and 128 bits down to 64 bits on 64-bit architectures. This will reduce heap size, improve deployment density, and increase data locality.
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Rewriting Libimagequant in Rust for Portability
libimagequant is a library for generating high-quality palettes, useful for compression of transparent PNG images (~75% smaller!) and making nice GIF animations .
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The FIPS 140-3 Go Cryptographic Module
Go now has a built-in, native FIPS 140-3 compliant mode.
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Will Hare replace C? Or Rust? Or Zig? Or anything else?
If the short answer leaves you wanting, keep reading. I must admit that this sentence from the Hare announcement may have caused some confusion:
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Functional programmers need to take a look at Zig
I’ve been tinkering around with Zig to explore what’s possible with comptime. Whenever I evaluate a new language I use three axes:
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Node v8.5.0
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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Julia 1.12 highlights
Highlights of the Julia 1.12 release.
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Introduction to Ada: a project-based exploration with rosettas
Discover Ada through a fun, project-based tutorial! Learn the language’s clarity, safety, and modern features while building an SVG rosetta generator. A…
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Announcing TypeScript 2.7
Today we're proud to announce the release of TypeScript 2.7! If you're not familiar with TypeScript, it's a language that brings optional static types to
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A cost model for Nim
This blog post is the beginning of a cost model for the implementation that is available via `Nim devel` aka Nim version 2.
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Wikipedia on HHVM
If you’ve been watching our GitHub wiki, following us on Twitter, or reading the wikitech-l mailing list, you’ve probably known for a while that Wikipedia ha...
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Py2wasm – A Python to WASM Compiler
Since starting Wasmer five years ago we've been obsessed with empowering more languages to target the web and beyond through Webassembly. One of the mo...
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Kotlin becomes second most popular language on the JVM
Snyk's annual JVM ecosystem report presents the results of the largest annual survey on the JVM ecosystem, which gathered over 2000 responses in the second half of 2019.
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JEP 430: String Templates (Preview) Proposed to Target Java 21
Enhance the Java programming language with string templates . String templates complement Java's existing string literals and text blocks by coupling literal text with embedded expressions and template processors to produce specialized results. This is a preview language feature and API .
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Oxy is Cloudflare's Rust-based next generation proxy framework (2023)
In this blog post, we are proud to introduce Oxy - our modern proxy framework, developed using the Rust programming language