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rootless Docker

Docker 19.03 introduces an experimental rootless Docker mode that helps mitigate vulnerabilities by hardening...

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Tõnis Tiigi, a software engineer at Docker and also a maintainer of Moby/Docker engine, in his recent post on Medium, explained how users can...
web development

GCC 9.1 releases with improved diagnostics, simpler C++ errors and much more

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Just two months ago, the team behind GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) made certain changes to GCC 9.1. And Last week, the team released GCC...
web development

GNOME 3.32 released with fractional scaling, improvements to desktop, web and much more

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Yesterday, the team at GNOME released the latest version of GNOME 3, GNOME 3.32, a free open-source desktop environment for Unix-like operating systems. This...

Is Scala 3.0 a new language altogether? Martin Odersky, its designer, says “yes and...

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At Scala Days Lausanne 2019 in July, Martin Odersky, the lead designer of Scala, gave a tour of the upcoming major version, Scala 3.0....
game engine

Unity switches to WebAssembly as the output format for the Unity WebGL build target

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With the launch of Unity 2018.2 release last month, Unity is finally making the switch to WebAssembly as their output format for the Unity...
Former Spotify engineer reveals how JavaScript is used on the desktop application

Spotify has “one of the most intricate uses of JavaScript in the world,” says...

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A former Spotify engineer, Mattias Peter Johansson, has outlined how the music streaming platform uses JavaScript on it's desktop application. It's complicated and, according...
Switching to Python

Python in Visual Studio Code released with enhanced Variable Explorer, Data Viewer, and more!

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This week, the team at Python announced the release of Python Extension for Visual Studio Code. This release comes with enhanced variable explorer and...

GitHub now allows issue transfer between repositories; a public beta version

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Yesterday, GitHub announced that repository admins can now transfer issues from one repository to another better fitting repository, to help those issues find their...
Microsoft HQ

Microsoft’s .NET Core 2.1 now powers Bing.com

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Microsoft is ever striving to make its products run better. They can add yet another accomplishment to their list as Microsoft’s cloud service search...
game engine

macOS gets RPCS3 and Dolphin using Gfx-portability, the Vulkan portability implementation for non-Rust apps

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The Vulkan Portability implementation, gfx-portability allows non-Rust applications that use Vulkan to run with ease. After improving the functionality of gfx-portability’s Metal backend through benchmarking...

Must Read in Mobile

Understanding the Foundation of Protocol-oriented Design

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When Apple announced Swift 2 at the World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) in 2016, they also declared that Swift was the world’s first protocol-oriented...

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