Oracle releases JDK 13 with switch expressions and text blocks preview features, and more!
Yesterday, Oracle announced the general availability of Java SE 13 (JDK 13) and that its binaries are expected to be available for download today....
Darklang available in private beta
Yesterday, the team behind Dark programming language has unveiled Darklang’s private beta version. Dark is a holistic programming language, editor, and infrastructure for building...
Introducing ‘ixy’, a simple user-space network driver written in high-level languages like Rust, Go,...
Researchers Paul Emmerich et al have developed a new simple user space network driver called ixy. According to the researchers, ixy is an educational...
The Eclipse Foundation releases Jakarta EE 8, the first truly open-source, vendor-neutral Java EE
Yesterday, the Eclipse Foundation announced the release of the Jakarta EE 8 full platform, web profile specifications, and related Technology Compatibility Kits (TCKs). This...
Is Scala 3.0 a new language altogether? Martin Odersky, its designer, says “yes and...
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....
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, Python 2 will not...
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 team submitted the proposal...
Go 1.13 releases with error wrapping, TLS 1.3 enabled by default, improved number literals,...
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...
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 Compiler for TypeScript which...
Introducing CUE, an open-source data constraint language that merges types and values into a...
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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