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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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Rust 1.46.0 Released
The latest Rust stable release, 1.46.0, extends the number of core language constructs that are allowed in const fn. Also, a couple of features are stabilised.
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RustConf Promotes a More Inclusive Community as Rust Grows
RustConf ws held in August 2020. As Rust grows into a mainstream programming language, it needs to be inclusive with regard to developers of all backgrounds and skill levels. Inclusivity was the theme of this year's RustConf.
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C2Rust Aims to Enable C Transpilation to Rust
C2Rust is an open-source project that aims to make it possible to migrate C99-compliant code to Rust. Working on this relatively new tool has also allowed its creators to learn a few lessons about the way C code is written and to explore the current limits to Rust possibilities of replacing it at the ABI level.
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Go 1.16 Will Support Register-Based Calling Convention
The Go team is working to implement a minimum viable register-based calling convention in Go 1.16. This change could provide 5-10% throughput improvement, according to the Google Go team, while keeping backward compatibility for code using Go current stack-based calling convention.
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Is Julia Production Ready? Q&A with Bogumił Kamiński
On the heels of JuliaCon 2020, SGH Warsaw School of Economics professor and DataFrames.jl maintainer Bogumił Kamiński summarized the status of the language and its ecosystem and stated that Julia is finally production-ready. InfoQ has taken the chance to speak with professor Kamiński.
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Go 1.15 Improves the Go Linker, Small Object Allocation, and More
The latest release of the Go language, Go 1.15, focuses on improving the toolchain, runtime, and core libraries. Besides improving the linker and allocation for small objects, Go 1.15 deprecates X.509 CommonName, supports a new embedded tzdata package, and more.
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Dropbox Improves Sync Performance Using a Modified Brotli
After analyzing the performance of several common lossless compression algorithms, Dropbox engineers have slightly modified Google's Brotli encoder to improve their engine sync performance. This reduced median latency and data transfer by more than 30%, Dropbox engineers Rishabh Jain and Daniel Reiter Horn maintain.
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Rust 1.45 Fixes Cast Unsoundness and Stabilizes Support for Web Framework Rocket
Rust 1.45 includes a fix for a long-standing float cast issue potentially causing undefined behaviour and stabilizes features used by popular Web framework Rocket.
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Rust Breaks into TIOBE Top 20 Most Popular Programming Languages
Developers’ love for Rust has translated into real-world adoption. On 6/2/2020, TIOBE reported that Rust broke into TIOBE index top 20 for the first time.
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Deno Is Ready for Production
Deno, a secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript, has reached version 1.0. Written in Rust, Deno addresses many design problems in Node.js, but it also faces challenges in developer adoption.
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Space-Efficient Full-Text Search with Rust and WebAssembly
Matthias Endler, backend engineer for Trivago, published a client-side full-text search engine designed for space efficiency by leveraging Bloom filters. Tinysearch is written in Rust, transpiled to WebAssembly, and used in the browser. Tinysearch claims sizes between 50 and 100KB and can only index full words.
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Rust/WinRT Brings Microsoft Closer to Adopting Rust Internally
Now available in preview, Rust/WinRT is a language projection for the Windows Runtime that enables calling Windows APIs in a natural and idiomatic way, similarly to other language projections such as C++/WinRT.
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Rewriting Dropbox Sync with Confidence Thanks to a Robust Test Strategy
Over the last few years, Dropbox engineers have rewritten their client-side sync engine from scratch. This would not have been possible had they not defined a clear testing strategy to allow them to build and ship the new engine through a quick release cycle, writes Dropbox engineer Isaac Goldberg.
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Stork, a Rust/Wasm-Based Fast Full-Text Search for the JAMStack
James Little, developer at Stripe, released Stork (in beta), a Rust/WebAssembly full-text search application. Stork targets static and JAMStack sites and strives to provide sites’ users with excellent search speed.