By Martin Heller Google’s Go language was recently chosen as Tiobe’s programming language of 2016, based on its rapid growth in popularity over the year, more than twice that of runners-up Dart …read more Source:: OpenSource
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Mozilla binds Firefox’s fate to the Rust language
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Mozilla always intended for Rust to be used in building key parts of the Firefox browser. Now the company is committing to that vision in a significant manner. After version 53, …read more Source:: OpenSource
Nim language draws from best of Python, Rust, Go, and Lisp
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•By Serdar Yegulalp New languages emerge to fill niches that the existing ones don’t satisfy. Google’s Go combined the speed of C with the rapid development cycles of interpreted languages like Python. …read more Source:: OpenSource
New functional language for JVM builds on Haskell, Clojure, ML
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Lux, a new Lisp-like functional language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine, has ambitions to pick up where similar languages leave off. Currently in an 0.5 …read more Source:: OpenSource
Lift language opens the door to cross-platform parallelism
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Wouldn’t it be great to write code that runs high-speed parallel algorithms on just about every kind of hardware out there, and without needing to be hand-tweaked to run well …read more Source:: OpenSource
Rust language revs up compiler speed
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•By Paul Krill With the release of Rust 1.13, developers have improved compiler performance and security for the programming language. An issue remains, however, with code generation for ARM processors. For better compiler performance, …read more Source:: OpenSource
Microsoft open-sources P language for IoT
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•By Paul Krill Microsoft’s P language, for asynchronous event-driven programming and the IoT (internet of things), has been open-sourced. Geared for embedded systems, device drivers, and distributed services, P is a domain-specific language …read more Source:: OpenSource
Sourcegraph provides intelligent searches of Go language code
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Code-search service Sourcegraph wants to distinguish itself as more than a glorified plaintext search of code in public and private GitHub repositories. The service applies the same kind of lexical …read more Source:: OpenSource
CouchDB 2.0 adds clustering and an easier query language
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Nearly two years after its initial availability as a developer preview, version 2.0 of the Apache Software Foundation’s NoSQL database solution CouchDB is finally out. Many of the major …read more Source:: OpenSource
Microsoft maps out F# language upgrade
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•By Paul Krill Microsoft’s plans for the F# “functional first” language include an upgrade later this year that adds capabilities ranging from struct tuples to improved error messages. Backing for .Net …read more Source:: OpenSource