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Today YesLogic is open-sourcing the Allsorts font parser, shaping engine, and subsetter for OpenType, WOFF, and WOFF2 under the Apache 2.0 license. Allsorts was extracted from the Prince HTML to PDF typesetting and layout tool and is implemented in Rust. Prince is a tool that converts HTML and CSS into well laid out…
Language is made of discrete structures, yet neural networks operate on continuous data: vectors in high-dimensional space. A successful language-processing network must translate this symbolic information into some kind of geometric representation—but in what form? Word embeddings provide two well-known examples…
The .NET team at Microsoft has been working in close collaboration with the gRPC team since November 2018 on a new fully managed implementation of gRPC for .NET Core. We’re pleased to announce that grpc-dotnet is now available with .NET Core 3.0 today! How to get it? grpc-dotnet packages have just been released to…
Our founder Francesco Cesarini remembers the early days working with Joe Armstrong, co-creator of Erlang.
Julia is a high-level programming language for mathematical computing that is as easy to use as Python, but as fast as C. The language has been created with performance in mind…
From Moldable Development to Media for Thought
The Linux AIO is designed for, well, Asynchronous disk IO! They are not network sockets, but is it possible to use Linux AIO API with network sockets? The answer is a strong YES!
It's time to find a better way to store your dotfiles. Learn why you should start using a bare Git repository instead.
What languages do you want to work with next year? Are you more productive in an office or working from home? When did you write your first line of code? We want to hear from you in our annual developer survey ! The survey, now in its ninth year, launches today and anyone who codes is encouraged to participate. Take…
This blog post shows you how to use the HAProxy Data Plane API to manage your load balancer configuration dynamically using HTTP commands.
Regardless of specifics, however, the Income Sharing Agreement (ISA) structure is relatively consistent. To define it more explicitly, an Income Sharing Agreement funds a student’s tuition upfront in exchange for receiving a percentage of the student’s future earnings (hence “income-sharing”) based on a pre-defined…
How we built a 40x faster hash joiner using vectorized execution.
What happened that made TypeScript viable for me and worth migrating paypal-scripts for.
We're pleased to announce TypeScript 3.7 Beta, a feature-complete version of TypeScript 3.7. Between now and the final release, we'll be fixing bugs and
At this year's Open Source Summit in San Diego, California, Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, gave a keynote speech. He defined TARS, a microservice RPC framework that was open sourced by Tencent and donated to the Linux Foundation, as "New ways to scale", a way of mass service. Along with TARS…
Search Engine add-ons will be removed from AMO on December 5, 2019. To continue working, they must be converted to an extension using the WebExtensions API by December 3, 2019.
Winter is coming for Java updates with no free public updates in sight! Get the support you need with Zulu Community and Zulu Enterprise.
We will demonstrate how to do a complete port of a web application from React + Redux written in JavaScript to WebAssembly (WASM) with Rust .
As you already know KDAB is the largest independent contributor to Qt code. Of course we didn't get lazy and we've added a lot of cool stuff to Qt 5.14.
If you already know lots about JIT in general and Ruby’s MJIT in particular… you may not learn much new in this post. But in case you wonder “what is JIT?” or “what is MJIT?” or “what’s different about Ruby’s JIT?” or perhaps “why in the world did they decide to do THAT?”… Well then, perhaps I can
