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OCaml 4.03: Everything else
In my previous post I wrote about Flambda, which is the single biggest feature coming to OCaml in this release. In this post, I’ll review the other features ...
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Nim Programming Language 0.14.0 released
The Nim programming language is a concise, fast programming language that compiles to C, C++ and JavaScript.
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How to speed up the Rust compiler some more
I recently wrote about some work I’ve done to speed up the Rust compiler . Since then I’ve done some more.
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Nuitka Progress in 2015 – Python Compiler
For quite a bit, there have been no status posts, not for lack of news, but a lot has happened indeed. I just seem to post a lot more to the mailing list than I do here. Especially about unfinished stuff, which is essentially for a project like Nuitka everything that’s going on.
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Announcing .NET Core 1.1
Updated (2017): See .NET Core Releases to learn about newer releases. We are excited to announce the release of .NET Core 1.1 RTM, the first “Current” release. You can start creating .NET Core 1.1 apps, today, in Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio 2017 RC, Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio for the Mac. We used the…
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It's Coming: The Great Swift API Transformation
Cocoa, the Swift standard library, maybe even your own types and methods—it’s all about to change, and you can help determine how.
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Node 5.7.0 (stable) 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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The New Haxe Target: HashLink in depth, part 1
Find out more about HashLink, the newest Haxe target, a virtual machine used to develop system/server/desktop applications.
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Python Versions Used in Commercial Projects, 2016 Edition
Is it Python 2 or 3 that gets the job done? We crunched the data to find out.
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PHP 7.1.0 Released
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
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.NET Core RC2 – Improvements, Schedule, and Roadmap
Updated (2017): See .NET Core Releases to learn about newer releases. This post was written by Scott Hunter. You all want .NET Core 1.0 RC2, you want a schedule, and you want to go live. Today we’ve got a schedule to share plus some changes that will improve things for everyone in the .NET Community going forward. The…
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A Peek into F# 4.1
Later this year, we’re going to ship a new version of Microsoft’s tools for F#. This will include support for F# 4.1, featuring important incremental improvements to the language that have been developed in conjunction with F# users and contributors. Our tools will also include a cross-platform, open-source F# 4.1…
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Typed Python: new Mypy release
I just uploaded version 0.4 of mypy-lang to PyPI ! This release focuses on performance improvements, usability improvements and bug fixes....
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Julia 0.5 Highlights
It introduces more transformative features than any release since the first official version....
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Native reactive spreadsheet in 17 LOC
After the release of our reactive framework a few days ago, we though it would be a good idea to implement the, often mentioned, spreadshee...
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Node v6.6.0
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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Final features of C++17
With last weeks C++ committee meeting in Oulu, C++17 is feature complete and on its way to become an international standard. After the last meeting in Jacksonville I had little hope to see big surprises, but Oulu managed to add a few important and interesting features to the new standard. There is a very good overview…
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Microsoft Edge supports ES6 modules
Chakra, the recently open-sourced JavaScript engine that powers Microsoft Edge and Universal Windows applications, has been pushing the leading edge of ECMAScript language support. Most of ES2015 (aka ES6) language support is already available in Edge, and last week’s Windows Insider Preview build 14342 brings more…
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JEP 286: Local-Variable Type Inference
Enhance the Java Language to extend type inference to declarations of local variables with initializers.
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Welcome to the Python Engineering blog
Welcome! We here on the Python team at Microsoft are starting a blog. And since this is the first post, we wanted to give a bit of an introduction of who
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Ruby 2.4.0-preview1 released
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.4.0-preview1.
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