Programming Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 02, 2022

Go

• How to install GoLand on Linux Mint 21 - Invidious

  In this video, we are looking at how to install GoLand on Linux Mint 21.

• Free Ways to Start Learning Go

  Go, also known as Golang, is an open source programming language developed at Google. The language, which was written by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson, is widely used for cloud native development and building cloud infrastructure.

  “Docker, a Linux container manager, and Kubernetes, a container deployment system, are core cloud technologies written in Go,” states this Communications of the ACM article. “Today, Go is the foundation for critical infrastructure at every major cloud provider and is the implementation language for most projects hosted at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.”

Perl / Raku

• Spoken like a 1980s chip | Saif [blogs.perl.org]

  As an old simpleton, however, I can not drag myself away from the genius of the guys who with such limited resources managed so much, into the modern world were memory and processor power limitations are of no real issue. The SP0256-AL2 is the centre of this remarkable primitive utility, and I took it myself to explore how this worked, to transform it into a simple module that can be imported into any Perl program, with no dependencies apart from a means to transfer data to a speaker. There indeed many attempts to emulate this little chip, though I have not come across any that specifically use Perl, I do find resources including this one from Greg Kennedy that allow translation to the allophones used here.

• Specifying a pattern - DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻

  This blog post will discuss the types of patterns you can specify with rak.

Python

• Phylum Discovers Dozens More PyPI Packages Attempting to Deliver W4SP Stealer in Ongoing Supply-Chain Attack

  Last week, our automated risk detection platform alerted us to suspicious activity in dozens of newly published PyPI packages. Here's what we uncovered.

• A new crop of malicious modules found on PyPI [LWN.net]

  Phylum has posted an article with a detailed look at a set of malicious packages discovered by an automated system they have developed.