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NumPy 1.17.0 is here, officially drops Python 2.7 support pushing forward Python 3 adoption

Last week, the Python team released NumPy version 1.17.0. This version has many new features, improvements and changes to increase the performance of NumPy. The...

C++20 Committee Draft finalized with a new text formatting API, contracts unanimously deferred, and...

The ISO C++ Committee met last week at Cologne, Germany to complete and publish the Committee Draft (CD) of the next C++ standard called...
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GopherCon 2019: Go 2 update, open-source Go library for GUI, support for WebAssembly, TinyGo...

Last week Go programmers had a gala time learning, networking and programming at the Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina as the most awaited event...

Go introduces generic codes and a new contract draft design at GopherCon 2019

Update: On 31st July, Ian Lance Taylor posted in detail explaining the benefits and costs of including generics in Go. He also briefly discussed...
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Julia announces the preview of multi-threaded task parallelism in alpha release v1.3.0

Yesterday, Julia team announced the alpha release of v1.3.0, which is an early preview of Julia version 1.3.0, expected to be out in a...

Npm Inc. co-founder and Chief data officer quits, leaving the community to question the...

On Thursday, The Register reported that Laurie Voss, the co-founder and chief data officer of JavaScript package registry, NPM Inc left the company. Voss’s...
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“Why was Rust chosen for Libra?”, US Congressman questions Facebook on Libra security design...

Last month, Facebook announced that it’s going to launch its own cryptocurrency, Libra and Calibra, a payment platform that sits on top of the...
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Python 3.8 new features: the walrus operator, positional-only parameters, and much more

Earlier this month, the team behind Python announced the release of Python 3.8b2, the second of four planned beta releases. Ahead of the third...

Microsoft mulls replacing C and C++ code with Rust calling it a “modern safer...

Here's another reason why Rust is the present and the future in programming. Few days ago, Microsoft announced that they are going to start...
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Facebook released Hermes, an open source JavaScript engine to run React Native apps on...

Yesterday Facebook released a new JavaScript engine called Hermes under an open source MIT license. According to Facebook, this new engine will speed up...

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GNU Radio 3.8.0.0 releases with new dependencies, Python 2 and 3...

Last week, the team behind GNU Radio announced the release of GNU Radio 3.8, a free and open-source software development toolkit. GNU Radio 3.8.0.0...

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