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Swift shares diagnostic architecture improvements that will be part of the Swift 5.2 release

The team behind Swift shared a new blog post yesterday detailing their new diagnostic architecture which is being implemented as…

5 years ago

What is the history behind C Programming and Unix?

If you think C programming and Unix are unrelated, then you are making a big mistake. Back in the 1970s…

5 years ago

What to expect from D programming language in the near future

On Tuesday, Atila Neves the Deputy leader for D programming language posted about his vision for D and what he…

5 years ago

Severity issues raised for Python 2 Debian packages for not supporting Python 3

On Monday, Neil Williams a software developer from Linux CodeHelp raised severity issues for Python 2 leaf packages in Debian…

5 years ago

Python 3.8 is now available with walrus operator, positional-only parameters support for Vectorcall, and more

Yesterday, the latest version of the Python programming language, Python 3.8 was made available with multiple new improvements and features.…

5 years ago

Libc++ 9 releases with explicit support for WebAssembly System Interface (WASI)

On Friday, Libc++ version 9 was released; libc++ is an implementation of the C++ standard library, targeting C++11, C++14 and…

5 years ago

Listen: How ActiveState is tackling “dependency hell” by providing enterprise-level support for open source programming languages [Podcast]

"Open source back in the late nineties - and even throughout the 2000s - was really hard to use," ActiveState…

5 years ago

A Cargo vulnerability in Rust 1.25 and prior makes it ignore the package key and download wrong dependency

Yesterday, the Rust team shared that a Cargo vulnerability confuses the older versions of Cargo making them ignore the new…

5 years ago

Rust 1.38 releases with pipelined compilation for better parallelism while building multi-crate project

After releasing Rust 1.37 last month, the Rust team announced the release of Rust 1.38 yesterday. This version supports pipelined…

5 years ago

Mypy 0.730 releases with more precise error locations, display error codes and more!

Yesterday the Mypy team uploaded mypy 0.730 to the Python Package Index (PyPI). Mypy is a static type checker for…

5 years ago