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Racket-on-Chez Status

posted by Matthew Flatt For background information about Racket on Chez Scheme (a.k.a. Racket CS), see the original announcement, the January 2018 report, the report at Scheme Workshop 2018, the January 2019 report, the ICFP experience report, an...

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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 […]

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Loopless Code (2006)

Most J programs contain no loops equivalent to while and for in C. J does contain while. and for. constructs, but they carry a performance penalty and are a wise choice only when the body of the loop is a time-consuming operation. You are just going to have to learn to learn to code without loops.

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Introducing Swift Service Lifecycle

It is my pleasure to announce a new open source project for the Swift server ecosystem, Swift Service Lifecycle. Service Lifecycle is a Swift package designed to help server applications, also known as services, manage their startup and shutdown sequences.

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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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Code Models

Code reflection, an enhancement to Java reflection, enables access to symbolic representations of Java code in method and lambda expressions. “Symbolic representations of Java code” may seem like a fancy term, but its easily demystified. It’s a model of Java code where the code of a method or lambda expressions is…