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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
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…
Visual Rust 0.1 is out
A user friendly game engine written in Rust
Why you might want to choose Ceylon
The Eclipse Ceylon™ project encompasses development of the language itself (the language specification), the compiler frontend (typechecker), the compiler backends for Java and JavaScript
Futures for C++11 at Facebook
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LLDB debugger is coming to Windows
We've spoken in the past about teaching Clang to fully support Windows and be compatible with MSVC. Until now, a big missing piece in this story has been debugging the clang-generated executables.
Russ Cox: Go, Open Source, Community
Why is Go open source, and how can we strengthen our open-source community?
Larry Wall announces that Perl6 is ready for production
Hello. Ting, ting, ting. Attention! … ATTENTION! Thank you. Hi, I’m Camelia, if you don’t know me. (Or even if you do.) They told me I had to give a speech at Perl 6’s offic…
Understanding C by learning assembly
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
PyPy 2.6.0 released
PyPy 2.6.0 - Cameo Charm We’re pleased to announce PyPy 2.6.0, only two months after PyPy 2.5.1. We are particulary happy to update cf...
Perl 6 developers will attempt to make a Version 1.0 release by Christmas 2015
If you are reading this and you didn't hear that Larry bit the bullet, rolled the dice, flipped the coin, shattered the space time continuum...breathe... then you really are going to get a shock.
D 2.069.0 released, compiler automatically ported from C++ to D
D Programming Language
Dead Code Should Be Buried – Why I Didn't Contribute to NLTK
Natural Language Processing moves fast, so maintaining a good library means constantly throwing things away. Most libraries are failing badly at this, as academics hate to editorialize. This post explains the problem, why it's so damaging, and why I wrote spaCy to do things differently.
Errors are values
Idioms and patterns for handling errors in Go.
New ELF Linker from the LLVM Project
We have been working hard for a few months now to rewrite the ELF support in lld, the LLVM linker. We are happy to announce that it has reached a significant milestone: it is now able to bootstrap LLVM, Clang, and itself and pass all tests on x86-64 Linux and FreeBSD with the speed expected of an LLVM project.
Developer Preview of AWS SDK for Go
My colleague Loren Segal shared the blog post below. As you can see, he’s really excited about the new AWS SDK for Go! — Jeff; Today we are announcing the first Developer Preview Release of the AWS SDK for Go (v0.6.0). If you have not been following along with development, the AWS SDK for Go […]
Dart 1.9
Asynchronous programming is everywhere – user interaction, network access, file I/O. Dart simplifies and enhances these scenarios with the...