Programming Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 19, 2025

• Undeadly ☛ Game of Trees 0.117 released

  Version 0.117 of Game of Trees has been released (and the port updated): [...]

• Linuxiac ☛ Git 2.51 Introduces Cruft-Free MIDXs

  A major focus is on multi-pack indexes (MIDX). Git now supports cruft-free MIDX repacks with a new option, “repack.MIDXMustContainCruft,” which ensures cruft packs are always included when rewriting packfiles. This makes repacks smaller and more efficient while keeping repository data consistent.

• LWN ☛ Git v2.51 released

  The Git distributed version-control

  system has release version 2.51, with "506 non-merge commits since

  v2.50.1, contributed by 91 people, 21 of which are new faces".

• Philip Zucker ☛ A Python CLI for Verifying Assembly

  I’ve been building a system that verifies assembly programs via symbolic execution. I think the following are the most novel points of my approach: [...]

• Rlang ☛ Little useless-useful R functions – Absurd converter with Markdown report

  This time, I will do an absurd amount of useless conversions 🙂 Some might make some sense – in the long looong run, but most will for sure have none.

• Perl / Raku

  • [Old] Mark Gardner ☛ Perl and humility vs. hubris

    Hubris is usu­al­ly con­sid­ered the antithe­sis of humil­i­ty. Yet, note that Wall’s def­i­n­i­tion also includes writ­ing main­tain­able soft­ware that won’t be cursed by oth­ers. Unfortunately, Perl devel­oped its rep­u­ta­tion as a ​“write-​only lan­guage” thanks to coders who ignored this sub­tle­ty. After all, folks are just try­ing to get their job done and don’t always have an eye toward lat­er understandability.

  • Rakulang ☛ Rakudo Weekly 2025.33 More Resilience

    Liz’s Corner Liz continues on the path started last week with (1) Towards more accountability of Raku programs, this week adding new posts on (2) CRA and OpenSource, on (3) CycloneDX Support and on (4) PURL Support. This looks like a timely and important set of capabilities for the raku ecosystem.

• Python

  • LWN ☛ The State of Python 2025

    The JetBrains blog presents the

    results of the eighth annual Python Developers Survey, carried out in

    partnership with the Python Software Foundation.