Introducing Weld, a runtime written in Rust and LLVM for cross-library optimizations
Weld is an open-source Rust project for improving the performance of data-intensive applications. It is an interface and runtime that can be integrated into...
How Quarkus brings Java into the modern world of enterprise tech
What is old is new again, even - and maybe especially - in the world of technology. To name a few milestones that are...
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....
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...
“Rust is the future of systems programming, C is the new Assembly”: Intel principal...
At Open Source Technology Summit (OSTS) 2019, Josh Triplett, a Principal Engineer at Intel gave an insight into what Intel is contributing to bring...
Mozilla proposes WebAssembly Interface Types to enable language interoperability
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...
Bitbucket to no longer support Mercurial, users must migrate to Git by May 2020
Yesterday marked an end of an era for Mercurial users, as Bitbucket announced to no longer support Mercurial repositories after May 2020. Bitbucket, owned...
Łukasz Langa at PyLondinium19: “If Python stays synonymous with CPython for too long, we’ll...
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,...
Julia co-creator, Jeff Bezanson, on what’s wrong with Julialang and how to tackle issues...
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...