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Core Python team confirms sunsetting Python 2 on January 1, 2020

Yesterday, the team behind Python posted details about the sunsetting of Python 2. As announced before, post January 1, 2020,…

5 years ago

Developers from the Swift for TensorFlow project propose adding first-class differentiable programming to Swift

After working for over 1.5 years on the Differentiable Programming Mega-Proposal, Richard Wei, a developer at Google Brain, and his…

5 years ago

Go 1.13 releases with error wrapping, TLS 1.3 enabled by default, improved number literals, and more

Yesterday, the Go team announced the release of Go 1.13. This version comes with uniform and modernized number literals, support…

5 years ago

Microsoft introduces Static TypeScript, as an alternative to embedded interpreters, for programming MCU-based devices

Microsoft yesterday unveiled Static TypeScript as an alternative to embedded interpreters. Static TypeScript (STS) is an implementation of a Static…

5 years ago

Introducing CUE, an open-source data constraint language that merges types and values into single concept

Inspired by Google’s General Configuration Language (GCL), a team of developers has now come up with a new language called…

5 years ago

Implementing memory management with Golang’s garbage collector

Did you ever think of how bulk messages are pushed in real-time that fast? How is it possible? Low latency…

5 years ago

Golang 1.13 module mirror, index, and Checksum database are now production-ready

Last week, the Golang team announced that the Go module mirror, index, and checksum database are now production-ready thus adding…

5 years ago

Why Perl 6 is considering name change?

There have been several discussions around renaming Perl 6. Earlier this month, another such discussion started when Elizabeth Mattijsen, one…

5 years ago

The Julia team shares its finalized release process with the community

The discussions regarding the Julia release process started last year when it hit Julia 1.0. Yesterday, Stefan Karpinski, one of…

5 years ago

TypeScript 3.6 releases with stricter generators, new functions in TypeScript playground, better Unicode support for identifiers, and more

Yesterday, the Program Manager at Typescript, Daniel Rosenwasser announced the release of TypeScript 3.6. This is a major release of…

5 years ago