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Node v4.0.0
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
Go 1.5 is released
Go 1.5 adds a new, much faster garbage collector, more parallelism by default, go tool trace, and more.
Ruby 2.3.0 Released
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.3.0.
Six years of Go
Happy 6th birthday, Go!
Replace CoffeeScript with ES6
Use ES6 on your next project.
Goodbye CoffeeScript, Hello TypeScript
Given the shortcomings of CoffeeScript, we investigated many alternatives, including ClojureScript, Babel, Elm, and PureScript. TypeScript stood out as a clear winner. Here's why.
Unison: a next-generation programming platform
A friendly programming language from the future.
PyPy 4.0.0 Released – A Jit with SIMD Vectorization and More
PyPy 4.0.0 We’re pleased and proud to unleash PyPy 4.0.0, a major update of the PyPy python 2.7.10 compatible interpreter with a Just In ...
PyPy 2.5.0 released
PyPy 2.5.0 - Pincushion Protea We’re pleased to announce PyPy 2.5, which contains significant performance enhancements and bug fixes. ...
How I Start: Clojure
We are going to explore Clojure by creating a fun project together. In particular, we will create a twitter bot that creates its text based on a mashup of Edward Lear’s poetry , and a goodly selection of functional programming text taken from Wikipedia.
Python on Android
There are an increasing number of resources about different ways of running Python on Android. Kivy (and its subprojects) are commonly mentioned, as one of the most mature and popular ways to do so, but one thing that gets less attention is the details of what you can do with Python itself once it’s running on the…