I wrote a couple of years ago about the troubles I had finding a good libc for embedded systems , and for the last year or so I've been using something I called 'newlib-nano', which was newlib with the stdio from avrlibc bolted on. That library has worked pretty well, and required very little work to ship.
RiakAround 2013, Riak was at the forefront of Conflict-Free Replicated Data Type (CRDT) development with the engineers at Basho Technologies working hard to integrate efficient, usable CRDTs from t...
What happened that made TypeScript viable for me and worth migrating paypal-scripts for.
Trying to design a new programming language, I’m faced with the question of how to implement a parser for it. Various parser generators are available and sup...
We're pleased to announce TypeScript 3.7 Beta, a feature-complete version of TypeScript 3.7. Between now and the final release, we'll be fixing bugs and
Understanding how the academic community understands software adoption.
A series of how to examples on using jq, a command-line JSON processor
If you're a programmer who's become fed up with software bloat, then may you find herein the perfect antidote.
At this year's Open Source Summit in San Diego, California, Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, gave a keynote speech. He defined TARS, a microservice RPC framework that was open sourced by Tencent and donated to the Linux Foundation, as "New ways to scale", a way of mass service. Along with TARS…
Search Engine add-ons will be removed from AMO on December 5, 2019. To continue working, they must be converted to an extension using the WebExtensions API by December 3, 2019.
Winter is coming for Java updates with no free public updates in sight! Get the support you need with Zulu Community and Zulu Enterprise.
We will demonstrate how to do a complete port of a web application from React + Redux written in JavaScript to WebAssembly (WASM) with Rust .
Back in 2015, Brian Will wrote a provocative blog post: Object-Oriented Programming: A Disaster Story . He followed it up with a video called Object-Oriented Programming is Bad , which is much more detailed. I recommend taking the time to watch the video, but here’s my one-paragraph summary:
I’ve recently been tinkering around with using a Raspberry Pi as a desktop computer. The Pi 4 is fairly powerful; very sufficient for web browsing, audio, video, and terminal use for programming.
Let's take a quick look at what compile-time execution looks like in Zig.
Excessive instruction cache misses are the kind of a performance problem that's going to appear only in larger codebases. In this article, I'm describing some ideas on how to deal with this issue.
Today, I'm publishing a new book: Property-Based Testing with PropEr, Erlang, and Elixir . It's my third book, the second one that is not self-published.
In the current year web developers are regarded as Jacks of all trades, they gotta do everything from manual testing to frontend ninjutsu, but is it worth it?
As you already know KDAB is the largest independent contributor to Qt code. Of course we didn't get lazy and we've added a lot of cool stuff to Qt 5.14.
Many people struggled with my article about Alan Kay and OO programming, so let's talk about the main objection.
Here's what no one tells you when you graduate with a degree in computer science and take up a job in software engineering:
If you already know lots about JIT in general and Ruby’s MJIT in particular… you may not learn much new in this post. But in case you wonder “what is JIT?” or “what is MJIT?” or “what’s different about Ruby’s JIT?” or perhaps “why in the world did they decide to do THAT?”… Well then, perhaps I can
This November we’re hosting a hackathon at YC. You can find out more about the event and apply here [https://apply.ycombinator.com/events/236]. Applications close on 10/25/19 at 11:59PM PST. We’ll send out the first round of acceptances shortly afterward. The top team will get a YC interview and the top three teams…
Ubuntu Touch is built in the open by hundreds of volunteers. UBports is their community portal — see how we develop, fund, and govern a privacy-first mobile OS.
