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Announcing Rust 1.96
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
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New features in GCC 16: Improved error messages and SARIF output
Explore new GCC 16 features for C++ developers. Learn about improved hierarchical error messages, updated SARIF output, and experimental HTML diagnostic tools.
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Racket v9.3
_posted by Stephen De Gabrielle and John Clements_ We are pleased to announce Racket v9.3 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org/. As of this release:: The `raco setup` command can generate markdown documentation, using the `--doc-mark...
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Protobuf-py: Protobuf for Python, without compromises
We're announcing protobuf-py, a complete, 100% conformant Protobuf runtime for Python that feels like Python and matches the performance of Google's C engine on real workloads.
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Evolving programming languages in the AI era
What happens to programming languages when humans are no longer writing most of the code?
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Expanding Swift's IDE Support
You can now write Swift in a broader range of popular IDEs, including Cursor, VSCodium, AWS’s Kiro, and Google’s Antigravity. By leveraging VS Code extension compatibility, these editors tap directly into the Open VSX Registry, where the official Swift extension is now live.
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JDK 28
This release will be the Reference Implementation of version 28 of the Java SE Platform, as specified by JSR 403 in the Java Community Process.
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Gleam v1.17.0
News post: Gleam v1.17.0 released!
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One year of Roto, a compiled scripting language for Rust
By Terts Diepraam Almost exactly one year ago, we announced Roto, a JIT-compiled embedded scripting language for Rust applications. A lot has happened since then that we'd like to tell you about! 💡Along with this post, we published Roto v0.11.0! You can check out the changelog
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Swift 6.4 Released
Swift 6.4 is now available. Swift aims to be a great choice across the stack, from apps and servers to systems code, embedded devices, and the browser. This release deepens that support, and makes everyday code easier to write. Highlights include:
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Rhombus 1.1 is now available
Rhombus version 1.1 is now available! We are pleased to announce Rhombus 1.1 is now available from https://rhombus-lang.org/. _Rhombus is a general-purpose programming language that is easy to use and uniquely customizable._ As of this release:: A...
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F# 10
Learn about new F# 10 language features, performance upgrades, and tooling improvements shipping with .NET 10.
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Unsigned sizes: A five year mistake
C3 is the ergonomic, safe evolution of C. Familiar syntax, full ABI compatibility, optionals, slices, contracts and zero-cost abstractions.
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Comparing Python Type Checkers: Typing Spec Conformance
Learn what it means to conform to the Python typing spec, why it matters, and the conformance status of each type checker including Pyrefly, Ty, Pyright and Mypy.
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The Sovereign Tech Fund invests in Scala
We’re truly excited to share that Scala has received an investment from the Sovereign Tech Fund to strengthen Scala’s long-term security, maintenance, and developer experience.
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C's Flexible Integer Sizes Were Not a Design Mistake
Word sizes, strange machines, and why <strong>int</strong> was never meant to mean 32 bits. C's flexible integer types were how the language achieved portability in a world of 12, 18, 36, and 60-bit computers.
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NimConf 2026: Dates Announced, Registrations Open
The Nim Team is happy to announce the next instalment of NimConf! NimConf 2026 will happen June 20, 2026 in the traditional online format where the talks are pre-recorded and revealed as premiers on YouTube while the viewers can ask questions and the presenter can answer them in the live chat.
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The Common Lisp Cookbook – LispWorks Review
A collection of examples of how to use Common Lisp
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We interfaced single-threaded C++ with multi-threaded Rust
And lived to tell the tale.
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Formal Methods and the Future of Programming
I’ve been telling people for the last 25 years that Jane Street as an organization was just not interested in formal methods.
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JEP 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation
Improve startup and warmup time by making optimized native code for an application instantly available when the HotSpot Java Virtual Machine starts. Achieve this by compiling application code to native code in a training run, storing the native code in the AOT cache for use in subsequent production runs. If the…
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TypeScript 6.0 RC
Today we are excited to announce the Release Candidate (RC) of TypeScript 6.0! To get started using the RC, you can get it through npm with the following
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JEP 540: Simple JSON API (Now in Incubator)
Define a simple, standard API for parsing and generating JSON documents so that doing so does not require an external library. Enable many JSON processing tasks to be accomplished with little coding. This is an incubating API .
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Tailscale-rs: Official Rust library for embedding Tailscale
We've launched an experimental Rust library for Tailscale via tsnet. Help test tailscale-rs and shape it with your feedback.