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Baidu Announces "OpenEdge", an Open-Source Edge Computing Platform
Recently Baidu Inc. announced China's first open-source edge computing platform called OpenEdge - allowing developers to build light, secure and scalable edge applications. The OpenEdge platform brings processing power to "edge devices" like smart home appliances and wearables.
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C2x Will Be the Next ISO Standard for the C Language
Expected to be finalized in 2022, the C2x standard has started its evolution, driven by the C committee. InfoQ had the chance to speak with Jens Gustedt, who is working within the committee to advance the new standard and author of the upcoming book Modern C.
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Moddable IoT JavaScript Engine: 99% ES2017 Compliance with Requirement of Less Than 32KB RAM
The Moddable SDK provides a JavaScript engine for IoT development supporting greater than 99% compliance with the ES2017 specification, starting at less than 32KB.
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Rust 1.30 Brings More Metaprogramming Support and Improved Modules
The latest release of Rust, version 1.30, extends procedural macros by allowing them to define new attributes and function-like macros. Additionally, it streamlines Rust module system by making it more consistent and straightforward.
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Rust Has Got Existential Types
Version 1.26 of Rust adds support for existential types, improved match bindings, slice patterns, and some useful syntactic sugar. The Rust compiler has also become faster and supports 128 bit integers.
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Rust 1.25 Moves to LLVM 6
Rust 1.25 upgrades its LLVM to LLVM 6, adds support for nested import groups in use statements, custom struct alignment, and library stabilizations. This latest Rust release does not include, though, much awaited features such as impl Trait, stable SIMD support, and 128-bit integers.
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Rust 2018 Will Focus on Productivity, WebAssembly, Embedded, and More
The Rust core team has announced the official roadmap for Rust in 2018, which brings productivity to the fore and targets four main domains: Web services, WebAssembly, CLI apps, and embedded devices.
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Raspberry Pi Leaps into 64-bit Computing with Model 3
Today, the Raspberry Pi foundation launched their Model 3, with a 64-bit processor and on-board WiFi and Bluetooth support. InfoQ looks at what this means for the embedded device community.
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Rust 1.6 Brings Stable Support for OS and Embedded Development
In keeping with their release model, the Rust development team has announced the first Rust release of 2016, 1.6. The biggest new feature that Rust 1.6 brings is libcore stabilization, which aims to make it possible to use stable Rust for OS and embedded software development.
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From the Google Ubiquity Dev Summit 2016: Brillo, Weave and Beacons
Google has organized this week the Ubiquity Dev Summit 2016 with sessions on their IoT technologies - Brillo, Weave, Beacons – and other technologies for wearable, TVs and Auto.
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Startup Afero Platform Addresses Internet of Things Communications Security
Tech startup Afero has launched a new platform that addresses both hardware and software necessities for securely connecting the internet of things (IoT). The platform interfaces IoT devices with a secure Bluetooth smart module, which communicates with a mobile phone that interfaces with the Afero cloud. All communications between the Bluetooth smart module node and the cloud are encrypted.
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Nest Opens Up Weave
Nest has made available to developers the Weave protocol used to connect various IoT devices.
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Facebook Parse Adds New Platforms to its IoT SDK
Parse for IoT, the line of SDKs that Parse announced at F8 2015, has been extended to include support for four additional microcontrollers.
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ARM Open Sources mbed, an IoT OS
The ARM mbed OS has entered beta and a number of components have been or will be open sourced in the following weeks.
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Software – Is it "Engineering" Yet?
At the GOTO Amsterdam 2015 conference Mary Shaw talked about progress towards an engineering discipline of software. She explored what it means to have an engineering discipline, how far we have progressed toward having one for software, and what can be the next steps.