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Saturday December 1st at 5 a.m. UTC will mark the start of the fourth incarnation of Advent of Code, popular programming contest started back in 2015. The author describes Advent of Code (AoC) as “a series of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels in any programming language you like”.
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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Practical advice on getting the most out of handling errors "the Go way" from the creator of imgproxy and Overmind.
Go is a simple and fun language, but, like any other language, it has a few gotchas... Many of those gotchas are not entirely Go's fault. Some of these mistakes are natural traps if you are coming from another language....
Visual Studio has long been recognized for the quality of its IntelliSense (code analysis and suggestions) across all languages, and has had support for
I recently wrote about some work I’ve done to speed up the Rust compiler . Since then I’ve done some more.
The rust-analyzer Project
We're incredibly excited to announce the new partnership between Status and Nim.
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…
cpyext is PyPy's subsystem which provides a compatibility layer to compile and run CPython C extensions inside PyPy. Often people ask ...
Crystal 0.27.0 has been released!
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.6.0-preview1.
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
Explore the Qt Blog for the latest insights on e.g. Qt Creator, your go-to source for cross-platform development tips and updates.
The newly-released GraalVM changes the status quo in the realm of JVM-based programming languages. In this instalment we’ll explore its impact on Clojure. We’ll start small, but by the end we’ll compile an entire Ring web application into a self-contained native binary.
Go 1.10 adds automatic caching of build & test results, and more.
Google Cloud is announcing a new Go 1.11 runtime for App Engine, with fewer limits on app structure.
Today we're announcing the release of TypeScript 3.1!If you haven't heard of TypeScript, it's a language that builds on top of modern JavaScript and adds
A high-performance and high-level purely functional data-parallel array programming language that can execute on the GPU and CPU.
R is a programming language for statistical computing known for its rich ecosystem of 3rd party libraries called “packages”. The R…
Andrew Shitov made my day with his It’s time for optimism blog post, in which he talks about some random things related to Perl 6 and its future. Well, not entirely random: the impetus for th…
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.
