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NVIDIA's CUDA Compiler (NVCC) is based on the widely used LLVM open source compiler infrastructure. Developers can create or extend programming languages with support for GPU acceleration using the NVIDIA Compiler SDK .
Go 1.25 simplifies the language spec by removing the notion of core types
The Worst Computer Bugs in History is a mini series to commemorate the discovery of the first computer bug seventy years ago. Although these stories are more extreme than most software bugs engineers will encounter during their careers, they are worth studying for the insights they can offer into software development…
Meta Open Source is officially transferring Jest, its open source JavaScript testing framework, to the OpenJS Foundation. With over 17 million weekly downloads and over 38,000 GitHub stars, Jest i…
JSON Patch is a simple, efficient, and standardized way to apply partial updates to JSON documents, especially over HTTP. Learn how it works in production.
How the Postgres planner breaks down a query into scans and how this impacts indexing choices
(please note that there’s a correction at the bottom) In the Overview of cross-architecture portability problems, I have dedicated a section to the problems resulting from use of 32-bit time_…
Ten years ago, Chas Emerick ran the first State of Clojure survey. In 2010, most users had been using Clojure for just weeks or months, and few were using it as a language for serious work. This year , we see consistent and growing use for work , steady interest in the key value propositions of Clojure, and an…
Sublime Text 2 Beta 2165 is out now, with the biggest set of improvements yet. Some of the highlights are:
On your journey to Clojure mastery, your editor will be your closest ally. I highly recommend working with Emacs, but you can, of course, use any editor you want. If you don’t follow the thorough Emacs instructions in this chapter, or if you choose to use a different editor, it’s worthwhile to at least invest some…
Since our 1.0 release, we have been hard at work making CockroachDB 2.0 the database that enables a company’s data layer to evolve with their business -- whether they are in a single datacenter or expanding around the world.
We are pleased to announce today the initial release of Transit. Transit is a format and set of libraries for conveying values between applications written i...
Explore Tailscale SSH Console, a web-based SSH client that simplifies connecting to your devices. Learn how Tailscale integrates WebAssembly, WireGuard, and SSH for secure, password-free access right from your browser."
We're pleased to announce the first stable release of PyPy3. PyPy3 targets Python 3 (3.2.5) compatibility. We would like to thank all of th...
Today, we're introducing Tidewave Web for Rails and Phoenix: a coding agent that runs directly in the browser alongside your web application, in your own development environment, with full page and code context.
It’s not every day that you get to debug what may well be a packet of death. It was certainly the first time for me. What do I mean by “a packet of death”? A software bug where the network stack crashes in reaction to a single received network packet, taking down the whole operating system with it.
Clojure 1.9 introduces two major new features: integration with spec and command line tools.
Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment, focused on simplicity and immediate feedback.
Now available, code scanning is a developer-first, GitHub-native approach to easily find security vulnerabilities before they reach production.
