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Sonatype Lift Integrates Facebook Infer, Google ErrorProne, and Other Code Analyzers
Recently launched Sonatype Lift provides a unified code analysis platform that includes over 25 tools to help developers identify a wide range of bugs in their development pipelines as soon as possible, says Sonatype. InfoQ has spoken with Stephen Magill, VP of product innovation at Sonatype, to learn more.
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V8 Gets a Non-Optimizing Compiler Stage to Improve Performance
The latest version of the JavaScript V8 engine, V8 9.1, introduces a new intermediate compiler stage, called Sparkplug, that improves performance on real-world benchmarks by 5-15%, says V8 engineer Leszek Swirski. It will be available in the upcoming Chrome 91.
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.NET News Roundup - Week of May 3rd, 2021
This past week was marked by a new Visual Studio Code release and Pure Virtual C++, a virtual event hosted by Microsoft. InfoQ examined this and a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of May 3rd, 2021.
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Microsoft Announces 64-Bit Visual Studio 2022
Microsoft has announced that the forthcoming Visual 2022 will finally be 64-bit. VS2022 will have full support for the upcoming .NET 6, C++20, ASP.NET Blazor, and .NET MAUI. The first preview release of VS2022 is scheduled for third quarter 2021.
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C++ Interpreter Cling Embraces Python Interoperability and Jupyter Notebooks
Cling is an interactive C++ interpreter built on top of LLVM aiming to make C++ more suitable for exploration and rapid application development. In a recent series of articles, research software engineer Vassil Vassilev describes how they are evolving it to enable interoperability with Python, Jupyter Notebooks, and support for hardware accelerators.
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Safe Interoperability between Rust and C++ with CXX
CXX enables calling C++ code from Rust and vice versa through safe low-level bindings so you do not have to create your foreign function interface on top of unsafe C-style signatures. InfoQ has taken the chance to speak with CXX creator David Tolnay.
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REPLicant, a Super Simple Svelte REPL - Peter Allen at Svelte Summit 2020
Peter Allen recently gave a talk at Svelte Summit 2020 in which he explained the benefits of REPL (Read-Print-Eval-Loop) playgrounds. While the Svelte REPL is complex due to the handling of many edge cases, the principles underlying code playground implementations are simple. Allen progressively led the viewer into the implementation of the simplest possible version of the Svelte REPL.
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C++20 Is Now Final, C++23 at Starting Blocks
Originally planned for release last February, C++20 has now received the final technical approval and will be published foreseeably by the end of the year. C++20 will include modules, coroutines, and concepts among its major new features.
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MDsveX - Adding Interactivity with Svelte Components in Markdown
The mdsvex npm package was recently entirely rewritten to allow Svelte developers to have Markdown content inside a Svelte component and also use Svelte components inside Markdown. Like Gatsby with MDX/React, mdsvex allows developers to mix Markdown and Svelte components to generate interactive content.
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WebAssembly Used by Java-to-Web Compiler CheerpJ 2.0 to Port Java Applications to Browsers
LeaningTech recently released the second major iteration of CheerpJ. CheerpJ 2.0 may convert Java applications into a mix of HTML, WebAssembly and JavaScript, so that developers can run Java applications (including applets) in browsers or integrate Java libraries into web applications. CheerpJ 2.0 uses WebAssembly to improve runtime speed.
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Ionic's Stencil Component Compiler Design Considerations -- Adam Bradley at DotJS2019
Adam Bradley, creator of StencilJS and co-creator of Ionic Framework, reviewed at dotjs2019 the design and architecture that went into Stencil, a component compiler which generates framework agnostic components.
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Google Propeller Squeezes Extra Performance from Large-Scale LLVM Binaries
Google Propeller is able to improve the performance of LLVM binaries by relinking and optimizing them based on a profile of their behaviour at runtime. Propeller can bring 2-9% improvements on key performance benchmarks for binaries that were previously highly optimized by LLVM, say Google engineers.
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TCMalloc, Google's Customized Memory Allocator for C and C++, Now Open Source
Google's TCMalloc can be used as a replacement for C and C++ default memory allocators to provide greater efficiency at scale and better support for parallelism, says Google.
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Babel 7.7 Released with Improved TypeScript Support, Top-Level Await and More
The recently released Babel 7.7 now parses top-level await, Flow enum declarations (Flow proposal), and proposes recovery options from certain syntax errors. Babel 7.7 now supports TypeScript 3.7. Babel also introduces a new optional babel.config.json configuration files, and miscellaneous other features and bug fixes.
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C++ is Coming to .NET Core for Windows
Microsoft has announced plans to offer C++/CLI in .NET Core 3.1. This would only be offered for Windows applications; you won’t be able to use C++/CLI for Linux or OSX.