Go User Survey 2018 results: Golang goes from strength to strength, as more engineers...
Yesterday, the team at Go announced the results of their user survey for the year 2018. 5,883 users from 103 different countries participated in...
OpenJDk team’s detailed message to NullPointerException and explanation in JEP draft
Developers frequently encounter NullPointerExceptions while developing or maintaining a Java application. They often don't contain a message which makes it difficult for the developers...
Clojurists Together fund a sum of $9,000 each for the open source projects, Neanderthal...
Clojurists Together shortlisted two projects namely Neanderthal and Aleph for Q1 of 2019 (February-April) to provide funding for further development of these projects, the...
Swift 5 for Xcode 10.2 is here!
Apple announced Swift 5 for Xcode 10.2 yesterday. The latest Swift 5 update in Xcode 10.2 explores new features and changes to App thinning,...
Microsoft introduces Pyright, a static type checker for the Python language written in TypeScript
Yesterday, Microsoft released a new static type checker for Python called Pyright to fill in the gaps in existing Python type checkers like mypy....
R core team releases R 3.5.3
The R Core Team released R 3.5.3, last week. R 3.5.3 explores bug fixes to the functions writeLines, setClassUnion, and stopifnot. R 3.5.3 is...
GCC 9 will come with improved diagnostics, simpler C++ errors and much more
Last week, the team behind GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) made certain changes to GCC 9. This release will come with improved diagnostics, location and...
5 useful Visual Studio Code extensions for Angular developers
Visual Studio Code has become a very popular code editor for Angular developers, particularly those running the Angular CLI. Features such as Syntax highlighting...
GNU Octave 5.1.0 releases with new changes and improvements
GNU Octave team released version 5.1.0 of the popular high-level programming language, last week. GNU Octave 5.1.0 comes with general improvements, dependencies, and other...
The npm engineering team shares why Rust was the best choice for addressing CPU-bound...
Last month, the npm engineering team in a white paper shared why they chose Rust to rewrite their authorization service. If you are not...
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Introducing Gitpod, a one-click IDE for GitHub
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