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Deno 1.0
Dynamic languages are useful tools. Scripting allows users to rapidly and succinctly tie together complex systems and express ideas without worrying about details like memory management or build systems.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 514 posts.
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What's SAP?
What's SAP? And why is it worth $163B?
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TailwindCSS v2.0
Today we're finally releasing Tailwind CSS v2.0, including an all-new color palette, dark mode support, and tons more!
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Fastly hires entire Wasmtime team from Mozilla
We announced the Bytecode Alliance nearly a year ago, and since then it has been… quite a year 😬
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.NET 5.0
.NET 5.0 includes many enhancements, including single file applications, more capable JSON APIs, new versions of C
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Ruby 3.0
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 3.0.0. From 2015 we developed hard toward Ruby 3, whose goal is performance, concurrency, and Typing. Especial...
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How io_uring and eBPF Will Revolutionize Programming in Linux
ScyllaDB’s Glauber Costa explains how two new APIs, io_uring and eBPF, are changing the fundamental nature of Linux programming.
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Swift: Google’s Bet on Differentiable Programming
Google's plans on making Swift the first mainstream language with first-class language-integrated differentiable programming capabilities. What's so cool about Swift?
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The Next Step for Generics
An updated generics design draft, and a translation tool for experimentation
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GitHub CLI is now in beta
We want your feedback about GitHub’s new command line tool that makes it easier to work with GitHub and reduce friction for many of your common workflows.
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Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native
After years of native mobile development, we’ve decided to build all of our new mobile apps using React Native. As I’ll explain, that decision doesn’t come lightly.
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GitHub CLI 1.0
GitHub CLI brings GitHub to your terminal. It reduces context switching, helps you focus, and enables you to more easily script and create your own workflows. Earlier this year, we…
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Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com
Facebook.com launched in 2004 as a simple, server-rendered PHP website. Over time, we’ve added layer upon layer of new technology to deliver more interactive features. Each of these new features an…
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A terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day at Slack
This story describes the technical details of the problems that caused the Slack downtime on May 12th, 2020. To learn more about the process behind incident response for same outage, read Ryan Katkov’s post, “All Hands on Deck”. On May 12, 2020, Slack had our first significant outage in a long time. We published a…
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Rust/WinRT Public Preview
We are excited to announce that the Rust/WinRT project finally has a permanent and public home on GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/winrt-rs Rust/WinRT follows in the tradition established by C++/WinRT of building language projections for the Windows Runtime using standard languages and compilers, providing a…
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GitHub Super Linter: one linter to rule them all
Setting up a new repository with all the right linters for the different types of code can be time consuming and tedious. So many tools and configurations to choose from…
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Ruby 3.0 Preview 1
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 3.0.0-preview1.
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Rust-analyzer – an IDE backend for Rust
I am pleased to announce the first alpha release of rust-analyzer — a new
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Nubank acquires Cognitect
We are thrilled to announce that Cognitect is joining the Nubank family of companies. This is the next step in a long relationship, and opens new opportuniti...
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What Is Nix?
This article is going to be a crash course in what Nix is, how to think about it, and why it's such a valuable and paradigm-shifting piece of technology.
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PostgreSQL is the worlds’ best database
Experience zero data sprawl with EDB Postgres AI. Capable of handling 30B+ trades a day and managing 50 TB.
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Twilio releases open source video conferencing apps for iOS, Android and web
Start your video app development with three new Twilio open sourced video collaboration applications for iOS, Android, and ReactJS for the Web.
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SQLite as an Application File Format (2014)
An SQLite database file with a defined schema often makes an excellent application file format. Here are a dozen reasons why this is so:
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Bevy: A data-driven game engine and app framework built in Rust
After months of work, I am ecstatic to finally announce Bevy Engine! Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine and app framework built in…
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Common mistakes using Kubernetes
Common Kubernetes mistakes: missing resource limits, misconfigured probes, no ingress controller, wrong autoscaling, weak RBAC, missing anti-affinity and PDBs.
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Build a real-time Twitter clone with LiveView and Phoenix 1.5
With the Phoenix v1.5 release, learn how easy LiveView makes it to build interactive, real-time applications.
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The original source code of Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983
We are excited to announce the open-sourcing of Microsoft's GW-BASIC on GitHub!