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Improving startup time in Atom with V8 snapshots
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 526 posts.
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JavaScript performance, WebAssembly, and Shared Memory in Microsoft Edge
JavaScript performance is an evergreen topic on the web. With each new release of Microsoft Edge, we look at user feedback and telemetry data to identify opportunities to improve the Chakra JavaScript engine and enable better performance on real sites. In this post, we’ll walk you through some new features coming to…
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Designing state machines
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AWS Cloud9 – Cloud Developer Environments
One of the first things you learn when you start programming is that, just like any craftsperson, your tools matter. Notepad.exe isn’t going to cut it. A powerful editor and testing pipeline supercharge your productivity. I still remember learning to use Vim for the first time and being able to zip around systems and…
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Firefox 57 as the first release where only WebExtensions will be supported
Update: this post was updated to reflect a change in how we determine when Firefox will run in multiprocess mode. Firefox won’t run in multiprocess mode unless add-ons are explicitly ...
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On mutex performance and WTF::Lock
One of the things I’ve been doing this quarter is removing Gecko’s dependence on NSPR locks . Gecko’s (non-recursive) mutexes and condition variables now use platform-specific constructs, rather than indirecting through NSPR. This change makes things smaller, especially on POSIX platforms, and uses no dynamic memory…
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Pointer Free Programming and the Future of Nim
What do ParaSail, "modern" C++ and Rust have in common? They focus on "pointer free programming" (ok, maybe Rust doesn't, but it uses similar mechanisms). In this blog post I am exploring how we can move Nim into this direction. My goals are:
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Open sourcing the Firebase SDKs
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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How to Make Python Run as Fast as Julia (2015)
IBM Developer is the source for hands-on training and in-demand learning on relevant technologies such as generative AI, data science, Java, and more.
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How Jet Built a GPU-Powered Fulfillment Engine with F# and CUDA
Have you ever looked at your shopping list and tried to optimize your trip based on things like distance to store, price, and number of items you can buy at each store? The quest for a smarter…
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Modernizing the DOM Tree in Microsoft Edge
The DOM is the foundation of the web platform programming model, and its design and performance impacts the rest of the browser pipeline. However, its history and evolution is far from a simple story. Over the past three years, we’ve embarked on an in-flight refactoring of the DOM in Microsoft Edge, with our eye on
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Introducing Yelp's GraphQL API
Introducing Yelp's Local Graph Tomer Elmalem, Software Engineer May 3, 2017 We’re continuously adding new features to our API to make it easier for developers to integrate with our data...
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GCC 7 Release Series – Changes, New Features, and Fixes
This page is a brief summary of some of the huge number of improvements in GCC 7. For more information, see the Porting to GCC 7 page and the full GCC documentation .
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TypeScript 2.4
Today we're excited to announce the release of TypeScript 2.4! If you haven't yet heard of TypeScript, it's a superset of JavaScript that brings static
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Racket v6.8
_posted by Vincent St-Amour_ Racket version 6.8 is now available from http://racket-lang.org/ Racket sports a new logo, courtesy of Matthew Butterick. MacBook Pro laptops with touch bars are supported. Support for FreeBSD on PowerPC. ...
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Comma Separated Vulnerabilities
A Accenture oferece oportunidades que surgem a partir da disrupção tecnológica em todas as indústrias, em todos os países, todos os dias. Saiba mais!
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Recommendations about coding in C++
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WebAssembly: A New Hope
What is WebAssembly, and what does it mean for the web?
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Node v8.8.0
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
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Search at Slack
On average, 20% of a knowledge worker’s day is spent looking for the information they need to get their work done. If you think about a typical work week, that means an entire day is dedicated to this task! To help our users find more time in their day, the Search, Learning, and Intelligence team set…