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As you may know we have been working on bringing Mono to the WebAssembly platform . As part of the effort we have been pursuing two strategies; one that uses the new Mono IL interpreter to run managed code at runtime, and one that uses full static (AOT) compilation to create one .wasm file that can be executed…
Window functions in PostgreSQL are valuable when you want to compare & contrast data between rows. And window functions are key in analytics use cases. This post covers the basic structure of window functions as well as some of the more interesting things you can do with them.
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Unit testing frameworks are quite popular in the object-oriented programming world. Frameworks like JUnit (for Java), SUnit (for Smalltalk), and CppUnit (for C++) provide a rich set of functionality. However, this rich set of functionality can be intimidating to someone who wants to do unit testing in a more…
Scheduling In Go : Part II - Go Scheduler. This blogpost is the second installment in a three-part series exploring the mechanics and semantics of the Go …
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I am player at heart. I do not have time to play much, but since my young years, I have always been fascinated by gameplay mechanisms, to…
Deprecate the Nashorn JavaScript script engine and APIs, and the jjs tool, with the intent to remove them in a future release.
Perhaps, readers remember my article titled Last line effect. It describes a pattern I′ve once noticed: in most cases programmers make an error in the last line of similar text blocks. Now I want...
In coordination with today’s announcement of Node.js v10, we’re excited to announce npm@6. This major update to npm includes powerful new…
V8 v6.9 features reduced memory usage through embedded built-ins, faster WebAssembly startup through Liftoff, better DataView and WeakMap performance, and much more!
In recent years, it has become increasingly important to develop software that minimizes security vulnerabilities. Memory management bugs are a common cause of these vulnerabilities. To that end, the Mozilla community has spent the last several years building the Rust language and ecosystem which focuses primarily on…
Grab designs fault-tolerant systems that can withstand failures allowing us to continuously provide our consumers with the many services they expect from us.
How to take advantage of spaCy & a bit of Cython for blazing fast NLP
Crystal 0.26.0 has been released!
