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TypeScript 3.7

TypeScript 3.6 releases with stricter generators, new functions in TypeScript playground, better Unicode support...

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Yesterday, the Program Manager at Typescript, Daniel Rosenwasser announced the release of TypeScript 3.6. This is a major release of TypeScript as it contains...
product development

The Julia team shares its finalized release process with the community

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The discussions regarding the Julia release process started last year when it hit Julia 1.0. Yesterday, Stefan Karpinski, one of Julia's core developers shared...
product development

Why Perl 6 is considering a name change?

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

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

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Last week, the Golang team announced that the Go module mirror, index, and checksum database are now production-ready thus adding reliability and security to...
datasets

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

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Inspired by Google’s General Configuration Language (GCL), a team of developers has now come up with a new language called CUE. It is an...
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Microsoft introduces Static TypeScript, as an alternative to embedded interpreters, for programming MCU-based devices

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Microsoft yesterday unveiled Static TypeScript as an alternative to embedded interpreters. Static TypeScript (STS) is an implementation of a Static Compiler for TypeScript which...
Learn how to code faster

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

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

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

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After working for over 1.5 years on the Differentiable Programming Mega-Proposal, Richard Wei, a developer at Google Brain, and his team submitted the proposal...
Switching to Python

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

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Yesterday, the team behind Python posted details about the sunsetting of Python 2. As announced before, post January 1, 2020, Python 2 will not...

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....

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Learning Essential Linux Commands for Navigating the Shell Effectively 

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Once we learn how to deploy an Ubuntu server, how to manage users, and how to manage software packages, we should take a moment...

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