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Mozilla proposes WebAssembly Interface Types to enable language interoperability

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WebAssembly will soon be able to use the same high-level types in Python, Rust, and Node says Lin Clark, a Principal Research Engineer at...
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Julia v1.2 releases with support for argument splatting, Unicode 12, new star unary operator,...

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Yesterday, the team behind Julia announced the release of Julia v1.2. It is the second minor release in the 1.x series and has new...
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Bitbucket to no longer support Mercurial, users must migrate to Git by May 2020

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Yesterday marked an end of an era for Mercurial users, as Bitbucket announced to no longer support Mercurial repositories after May 2020. Bitbucket, owned...
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Announcing ‘async-std’ beta release, an async port of Rust’s standard library

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Last week, Stjepan Glavina, a Rust programmer at Ferrous Systems, announced that the ‘async-std’ library has now reached its beta phase. This library has...
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Rust 1.37.0 releases with support for profile-guided optimization, built-in cargo vendor, and more

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After releasing version 1.36.0 last month, the team behind Rust announced the release of Rust 1.37.0 yesterday. Among the highlights of this version are...
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Poetry, a Python dependency management and packaging tool, releases v1 beta 1 with URL...

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Last week, Poetry, a dependency management and packaging tool for Python released their version 1 beta 1. Before venturing into details of this Poetry...
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PyPy will continue to support Python 2.7, even as major Python projects migrate to...

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The switch from Python 2 to Python 3 has been rocky and all signs point to Python 3 pulling firmly into the lead. Python...
Switching to Python

Łukasz Langa at PyLondinium19: “If Python stays synonymous with CPython for too long, we’ll...

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PyLondinium, the conference for Python developers was held in London, from the 14th to the 16th of June, 2019. At the Sunday Keynote Łukasz Langa,...
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Matthew Flatt’s proposal to change Racket’s s-expressions based syntax to infix representation creates a...

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RacketCon 2019 happened last month from July 13 to 14 bringing together the Racket community to discuss ideas and future plans for the Racket...

Julia co-creator, Jeff Bezanson, on what’s wrong with Julialang and how to tackle issues...

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The Julia language, which has been touted as the new fastest-growing programming language, held its 6th Annual JuliaCon 2019, between July 22nd to 26th...

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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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