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The most popular blog posts about open source on Hacker News. 143 posts.

2013
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Gotk3: GTK3 the Go way

Today marks the first release of gotk3, Conformal’s own GTK3 bindings for Go (available on Github here ). These bindings were developed out of a frustration with other GTK bindings for Go either using ancient versions of GTK, not handling memory in a way a Go developer would expect, or simply not working at all on our…

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GCC 4.8 release

GCC now uses C++ as its implementation language. This means that to build GCC from sources, you will need a C++ compiler that understands C++ 2003. For more details on the rationale and specific changes, please refer to the C++ conversion page.

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Musings about Debian and Python

On a regular basis, I find myself the odd-man-out when it comes to talking about how to work with Python on Debian systems. I’m going to write this and post it so that I might be able to point people at my thoughts without having to write the same email in response to each thread that pops up.