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Today, we are releasing .NET Core Tools 1.0. It’s an exciting day and an important milestone in the .NET Core journey. The tools are supported on Windows, macOS and Linux. You can use them at the command-line, with VS Code or as part of Visual Studio 2017. You can download the new .NET Core tools […]
Improve startup time by making the classes of an application instantly available, in a loaded and linked state, when the HotSpot Java Virtual Machine starts. Achieve this by monitoring the application during one run and storing the loaded and linked forms of all classes in a cache for use in subsequent runs. Lay a…
Git packfiles were designed for mmap and local disk, so pulling one object out of a bucket means guessing at a byte range. I wrote a new format instead.
In this post, we explore strategies for effectively curating and managing their context.
Qt Creator 18 highlights development containers to ease kit configuration, a convenient Overview tab, and various UX improvements.
How to program independent games
Kubernetes is ubiquitous in container orchestration, and its popularity has yet to weaken. This does, however, not mean that evolution in the container orchestration space is at a stand-still.
The default Windows command line experience is a little lacking. Let's supercharge it.
The Kubernetes control plane for humans and AI agents, on your own infrastructure, cloud or on-premise.
How CommonJS became Node's module system, ESM solved modules for the browser, and why supporting both slows down the JavaScript ecosystem.
Learn why Git flow complicates the lifecycle and discover an alternative to streamline development.
At JetBrains we're always listening to developers, and Android developers are no exception. Based on this tight feedback loop, we've made a long list of changes to our award-winning IDE which will hop
Developers write tests to ensure correctness and allow future changes to be made safely. However, as the number of features grows, so does the number of tests. Tests are a double-edged sword. On one hand, well-written ones catch bugs and maintain a program’s stability, but as the code base grows, a high number of…
Leverage LLMs with context like code structure, libraries, and screenshots to streamline code conversion tasks and accelerate development.
In the jungle of new programming languages, Crystal is one of the most popular ones, but also the most mysterious. Let's take a look at it.
Sublime Text 2 Build 2091 is available now, with a raft of new features. Many thanks to everyone who has tested the dev builds during this time.
A reflection on the first six months of the year, ext/sodium landing in PHP 7.2, and where to go from here.
Textual is a TUI framework for Python, inspired by modern web development.
We migrated from Mercurial to Git in 2014 to improve local performance and began consolidating our repositories that hosted our backend code. But as this monorepo grew, we experienced Git performance issues that grew linearly with the number of files we added. Inconveniently, this problem was the most severe on…
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We're pleased to announce the 1.5 release of PyPy. This release updates PyPy with the features of CPython 2.7.1, including the standard libr...
How we developed Oso to let you query your database using your authorization policy.
Dr. John Ousterhout is a computer science luminary who has made significant contributions to the fie
Discussions of coroutines and user-mode threads — like Project Loom's virtual threads or Go's goroutines — frequently turn to the subject of performance. The question I'll try answering here is, how do user-mode threads offer better application performance than OS threads?
