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Rust 1.65 Brings Generic Associated Types in a Step towards Higher-Kinded Types
The latest release of Rust introduces a powerful new language feature, called generic associated types, that allows developers to specify generics on associated types in traits. Other notable new features include the let-else statement, and support for breaking out of labeled blocks.
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Microsoft Releases Stream Analytics No-Code Editor into General Availability
During the Ignite Conference, Microsoft released Azure Stream Analytics no-code editor, a drag-and-drop canvas for developing jobs for stream processing scenarios such as streaming ETL, ingestion, and materializing data to data into general availability. The no-code editor is hosted in the company’s big-data streaming platform and event ingestion service, Azure Event Hubs.
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Go 1.19 Improves Generics Performance and Refines its Memory Model
Go 1.19 focuses on improving the implementation of the toolchain, runtime, and libraries, especially for generics performance, the language memory model, and garbage collection.
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Every Truth Can Be Established Where It Applies: an Impossible Thing for Developers
Developers can face impossible things in their daily work. Not all preconditions can be checked in code due to the definitional constraints of the programming language. Kevlin Henney gave a keynote about Six Impossible Things at QCon London 2022 and at QCon Plus May 10-20, 2022.
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Microsoft + Java = ♡: a Story Told by Martijn Verburg at Devoxx UK
Three years after Microsoft acquired jClarity, Martjin Verburg presented at Devoxx UK on how reliant Microsoft is on Java. If the two didn’t seem to fit on the same page, the reality is different: Microsoft runs 2 M JVMs in production for internal purposes, 50+ Android apps, and Azure’s internal systems and Minecraft are built in Java. Moreover, Microsoft is committed to moving Java forward.
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11 Puzzles from JDK11: Hanno Embregts on Java Certification at Devoxx UK
As part of his talk given in front of Devoxx's audience, Hanno Embregts shares 11 crazy things he learned on his path towards Oracle Java 11 certification. Even though having a career spanning of almost one decade and a half, these Java curiosities still needed to be ironed out while preparing to become common practice afterwards.
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Static Java Current State: Compiled Native Executables for Startup Speed and Small Footprint
Java’s long lasting motto of write once, run everywhere, seems to be adapting to the cloud native era. With the need for faster boot time and lower footprint, Static Java is gaining traction. To better understand the benefits and implications of adopting Static Java, InfoQ reached out to Dan Heidinga, principal software engineer at Red Hat.
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Swift 5.6 Enhances Type Inference, Introduces Existential Any, and More
Swift latest release, Swift 5.6, introduces partial type annotations that work as hints to the type inference engine, disambiguate the syntax for existential types, and improve pointer interaction.
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Go 1.18 Stabilizes Generics, Fuzzing, Multi-Module Support, and Improves Performance
The Go team has announced the release of Go 1.18, which brings support for generics, fuzzing, workspaces, and performance improvements.
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Rust 1.59 Supports Inline Assembly, Extends Destructuring, and More
Rust 1.59 now allows developers to include machine-level instructions in Rust programs using asm!. Additionally, destructuring has been extended beyond bindings to include assignments, and generics now support the specification of default values for const parameters.
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Rust for Linux Progresses with New Abstractions and Infrastructure
A new patch for Linux advances support for Rust as a second language for kernel development. Besides updating the infrastructure and providing new abstractions around kernel features, the new patch sets the base for more frequent submissions, writes Rust for Linux project lead Miguel Ojeda.
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Julia 1.7 Extends its Threading Capabilities, Improves Type Inference, and More
Julia 1.7 brings a number of significant enhancements, including new threading capabilities, new Package Manager features, improved type inference, and new syntactic features. It is also the first release to run natively on Apple Silicon.
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Swift Experimentally Introduces Support for Distributed Actors
The new Swift Distributed Actors package provides a glimpse into what the future distributed actor language feature could look like in Swift.
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Rust 2021 Edition is Here: Q&A with Armin Ronacher
Rust 2021 Edition hit the road perfectly on schedule on October 21, along with Rust 1.56.0. The latest version of the language includes support for disjoint capture, or patterns in macro rules, and more. InfoQ has taken the chance to speak with Sentry director of engineering, Armin Ronacher, about where Rust is standing now.
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OCaml 5 Will Include Multicore Support
The OCaml team has announced a detailed roadmap to add multicore support to the language runtime and will focus on merging the multicore and standard runtimes in the next minor releases leading to OCaml 5.