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Crystal 1.2.0

We are delivering a new release with several bugfixes and improvements. Below we list the most important or interesting changes, without mentioning the several bugfixes. For details visit the release’s notes. Breaking changes are marked with ⚠️.

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How to speed up the Rust compiler

Rust is a great language, and Mozilla plans to use it extensively in Firefox. However, the Rust compiler (rustc) is quite slow and compile times are a pain point for many Rust users. Recently I’ve been working on improving that. This post covers how I’ve done this, and should be of interest to anybody else who wants…

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Kotlin 1.0.5 is here

We're happy to announce that we've just released Kotlin 1.0.5, which continues the series of bugfix and tooling updates for Kotlin 1.0. We'd like to thank our external contributors whose pull request

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Technology that changed air travel

A lot has changed about air travel since it went mainstream in the 1930s. On-board smoking, free-flowing booze, and five-star meals have given way to baggage fees, cramped seats, and mystery meat. Through all this change, one thing has stayed the same — the software that manages it all.