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Julia 1.0
Announcing the release of Julia 1.0. The much anticipated 1.0 release of Julia is the culmination of...
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The most popular blog posts about programming languages on Hacker News. 123 posts.
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Go 2, here we come
How Go 2 proposals will be evaluated, selected, and shipped.
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Rust 2018 is here, but what is it?
Starting today, the Rust 2018 edition is in its first release. With this edition, we’ve focused on making Rust developers as productive as they can be. Most of the language ...
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Towards Scala 3
Now that Scala 2.13 is only a few months away, it’s time to consider the roadmap beyond it. It’s been no secret that the work on Dotty over the last 5 years was intended to explore what a new Scala could look like. We are now at a stage where we can commit: Dotty will become Scala 3.0.
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A Proposal for Package Versioning in Go
Proposing official support for package versioning in Go, using Go modules.
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Portable Cloud Programming with Go Cloud
Announcing Go Cloud, for portable cloud programming with Go.
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Ending PHP Support, and the Future of Hack
Ending Support for PHP
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Hello wasm-pack
Introducing wasm-pack, a new tool for assembling and packaging Rust crates that target WebAssembly. These packages can be published to the npm Registry and used alongside other packages. This means ...
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Python 3.7: Introducing Data Classes
Python 3.7 is set to be released this summer, let’s have a sneak peek at some of the new features! If you’d like to play along at home with PyCharm, make sure you get PyCharm 2018.1 (or later if you’r
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Making WebAssembly better for Rust and for all languages
To be a useful as a web language, Rust needs to work well with the JavaScript ecosystem. We have some work to do to get there, and fortunately that work ...
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Clang Is Now Used to Build Chrome for Windows
As of Chrome 64, Chrome for Windows is compiled with Clang. We now use Clang to build Chrome for all platforms it runs on: macOS, iOS, Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and Windows.
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Elixir v1.7 released
Elixir v1.7 includes many quality of life improvements, focusing on documentation, Logger and ExUnit, as well as a new Elixir Core team member.
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Getting to Go: Garbage collection and runtime issues
A technical talk about the structure and details of the new, low-latency Go garbage collector.
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Announcing TypeScript 3.0
TypeScript 3.0 is here! Today marks a new milestone in the TypeScript journey, serving JavaScript users everywhere.If you're unfamiliar with TypeScript,
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Clojure 1.10 release
Clojure 1.10 focuses on two major areas: improved error reporting and Java compatibility.
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Go's New Brand
Go’s new look and logo (don't worry, the mascot isn’t changing!).
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Elixir v1.6 released: code formatter, dynamic supervisors, and more
Elixir v1.6 includes a code formatter, defguard, dynamic supervision and new module attributes that improves code quality and the developer experience.
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Why the New V8 Is So Damn Fast
The entire V8 compiler pipeline was overhauled and shipped with Node.js version 8. This post investigates what speed improvements we can expect as a result.
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A Brief History of the BEAM Compiler
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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Ruby 2.6.0-preview2 released with JIT
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.6.0-preview2.