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Go Gets Fuzz Testing Support in Beta
The Go team has announced fuzzing support is now available for beta testing. The main goal of the project is to create a unified and end-to-end experience for developers and users of the language, including robust module support, integration with the go command, and new compiler instrumentation.
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Rust at Six: New Language Edition and Growing Adoption
Rust has been growing at a steady pace in regard to both its capabilities and industry adoption across the last years. Now at six, Rust is close to a new edition that will introduce new syntax without hampering the Rust ecosystem stability.
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Grain: Your WebAssembly-First Programming Language - WebAssembly Summit 2021
Oscar Spencer recently presented Grain, a new strongly-typed, high-level language that compiles to WebAssembly. Grain includes functional programming features (e.g., type inference, pattern matching, closures) while allowing mutable variables. Grain also has a standard library with composite data structures (Option, Stack, Result) and system calls (e.g., I/O, process handling).
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Swift 5.4 Brings Support for Multiple Variadic Arguments, Result Builders, and More
Recently released Swift 5.4 brings support for multiple variadic parameters, extends implicit member syntax, adds support for local functions overloading, and more. Additionally, it improves runtime performance and binary size.
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Using Rust to Write Safe and Correct Linux Kernel Drivers
As part of the Rust for Linux project, aimed to make it possible to use Rust for Linux driver development, the Android team at Google is working on evaluating the benefits that using Rust would bring.
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Microsoft Previews Rust For Windows
Microsoft announced the preview of Rust for Windows, which aims to enable creating Rust apps for Windows using any Windows API.
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Swift Collections Brings New Data Structures to Swift
Swift Collections is a new open-source package that aims to extend the choice of data structures available to Swift programmers beyond those provided in the standard library. In its initial version, it offers deques, ordered sets, and ordered dictionaries.
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Rust to Provide New Foundations for Android OS Security
Google will use Rust to prevent memory bugs in the Android OS, one of the most frequent causes of security vulnerabilities. As a first step in this direction, the Android Open Source Project now supports Rust as an OS development language.
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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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Crystal Language That Aims at C Performance with Ruby Syntax Releases 1.0
Crystal, a new object-oriented, compiled systems programming language that aims to blend the conciseness and friendliness of Ruby with the efficiency of C, recently released its first major version. Crystal 1.0 has a syntax close to Ruby’s and features statically inferred types, C bindings, and macros. Crystal may attract developers with a Ruby/Rails, Elixir/Phoenix background.
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Rust 1.51 Stabilizes Const Generics MVP, Improves Cargo and Compile Times
Rust 1.51 brings to stable a minimum value proposition for const generics, which enable parametrizing types by constant values, for example integers, as opposed to types or lifetimes. The new Rust release also includes improvements to Cargo with a new feature resolver, and faster compile times on macOS.
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AWS Announces Node.js 14 Support for Its Function as a Service, Lambda
Recently AWS announced Node.js version 14 support for its Function as a Service (FaaS), Lambda. Developers can now author AWS Lambda functions using Node.js' new features, such as top-level-await, enhanced diagnostics, modifications of the streams APIs, and a revised JavaScript engine for better performance.
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Rust Core Team Announces the Formation of the Rust Foundation
The Core Rust Team today announced the formation of the Rust Foundation. The Rust Foundation is a new independent non-profit organization whose purpose is to steward the Rust language and ecosystem, with a unique focus on supporting the set of maintainers that govern and develop the project.
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Microsoft Using Metadata to Enable Idiomatic Win32 Interop from Rust and Other Languages
In a move to make it easier to use Win32 APIs from any language, Microsoft has launched its Win32 Metadata project with the aim of generating complete Win32 language bindings through automated, idiomatic projections. The project includes initial projections for C#, C++, and Rust.
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Porting to Apple Silicon: Firefox Case
With the introduction of Apple Silicon, macOS developers will need to port their programs to the new CPU. For complex programs, this may be no small feat, though, as Firefox engineer manager Gian-Carlo Pascotto recounted.