On-Crash Backtraces In Swift
The new Swift 5.9 release contains a number of helpful, new features for debugging code, including an out-of-process, interactive crash handler to inspect crashes in real time, the ability to…
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Fourteen Years of Go
Today we celebrate the fourteenth birthday of the Go open source release! Go has had a great year, with two feature-filled releases and other important milestones. We released Go 1.20 in…
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Calling Rust From Python With Pyo3
I got plenty of feedback on my post about Calling Rust from Python: Many comments mentioned pyo3, and that I should use it instead of cooking my own. Thanks to the…
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Organizing “spaghetti” Software So It Can Be Easily Modified
The MIT spinout Silverthread helps companies transform complex codebases into modular systems that can be changed or updated without headaches. Zach Winn | MIT News(https://news.mit.edu/2023/silverthread-organizing-spaghetti-software-1012) As a software engineer, Dan Sturtevant SM…
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Profile-Guided Optimization In Go 1.21
Earlier in 2023, Go 1.20 shipped a preview of profile-guided optimization (PGO) for users to test. After addressing known limitations in the preview, and with additional refinements thanks to community feedback and…
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Scaling gopls for the growing Go ecosystem
Earlier this summer, the Go team released version v0.12 of gopls, the language server for Go, featuring a rewrite of its core that allows it to scale to larger codebases. This is the culmination of…
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Swift 5.9 Released
Swift 5.9 is now available! 🎉 This is a major new release that adds an expressive macro system to the language and introduces support for integrating Swift into C++ codebases through bidirectional interoperability. It…
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Combining AI With A Trusted Data Approach On IBM Power To Fuel Business Outcomes
It’s an exciting time in AI for business. As we apply the technology more widely across areas ranging from customer service to HR to code modernization, artificial intelligence (AI) is helping increasing…
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Perfectly Reproducible, Verified Go Toolchains
One of the key benefits of open-source software is that anyone can read the source code and inspect what it does. And yet most software, even open-source software, is downloaded…
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Structured Logging With Slog
The new log/slog package in Go 1.21 brings structured logging to the standard library. Structured logs use key-value pairs so they can be parsed, filtered, searched, and analyzed quickly and reliably. For…
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