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Rust 1.36 Stabilizes Futures, Backports Non-Lexical Lifetimes, and More
Following its roadmap to Rust 2018, Rust 1.36's most awaited new feature is support for the Future trait, which is the first step towards bringing async/await to the language. Additionally, it backports non-lexical lifetimes (NLL) to improve the borrow checker, and introduces a new alloc crate to enable the creation of memory allocation-dependent libraries that do not require std.
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Mozilla Announces WASI Initiative to Run Web Assembly on All Devices, Computers, Operating Systems
Mozilla recently announced a new standardization effort aiming at running the same WebAssembly code across all devices, machines and operating systems. The new standard, WebAssembly System Interface (WASI), defines a single conceptual operating system interface, which can be implemented by multiple, actual operating systems. Mozilla and Fastly are already shipping prototypal WASI implementations.
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Rust 1.32 Improves Tracing, Modules, Macros, and More
Rust 1.32 includes a number of new language features meant to improve developer experience when tracing the execution of programs for debugging purposes. Additionally, it now uses the system allocator by default, completes work on the module system to make it easier to use, and more.
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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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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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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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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.
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JavaScript on a Toaster: Embedded JavaScript with Duktape
Duktape takes JavaScript beyond the confines of the browser or server with a full ECMAScript 5 compliant engine that can be embedded into any C/C++ project.
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Testing Machine to Machine Systems
Devices are becoming increasingly interconnected through the internet where they are communicating directly with each other. Testing such machine to machine (M2M) systems can be difficult due to their complexity and the usage of different platforms, as Peter Varhol explained in his talk about testing in the M2M world at the QA&Test 2014 conference.
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Java ME 8 General Availability Release
Oracle principal product manager Terrence Barr announced the release today of Java ME 8, further aligning Java ME 8 with Java SE 8 and the Internet of Things
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Java 8 for Raspberry Pi Developer Preview
Oracle released the Java 8 developer preview for ARM processors last week. This early access build is especially tailored for running JavaFX on Raspberry Pi devices.
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NASA Develops Space Launch System Flight Software
Developing launch vehicle flight software requires a big focus on embedded systems and quality attributes such as safety. To develop such mission-critical software systems, sophisticated test beds are necessary. According to a NASA press release from the 31st of May, the software test bed computers for the new Space Launch System (SLS) are now available.