Best of 2021

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2021. 144 posts.

Programming Languages
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Racket v8.0

_posted by John Clements_ Racket version 8.0 is now available from https://racket-lang.org/. *** Racket 8.0 is here!*** Racket 8.0 marks the first release where Racket CS is the default implementation. Creating, polishing, and adopting Racket CS has be...

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Crystal 1.1.0

We are releasing the first post-1.0 release, making efforts to keep our promise of making regular releases each 3 months, a bit delayed because of the conference, and with special focus on keeping the language stability. Below we list the most important or interesting changes, without mentioning the several bugfixes…

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A New AWS SDK for Rust

We’re excited to announce the alpha release of a new AWS SDK for Rust. AWS customers developing in Rust want a native Rust SDK so they can use the language constructs they are used to, and customers new to Rust want an SDK that behaves similarly to SDKs they have used in other language environments. […]