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Unmitigated Risk ☛ Compliance at the Speed of Code
If compliance is the vital sign, how do you measure it at the speed of code?
What follows is not a description of today’s compliance tools. It’s a vision for where compliance infrastructure needs to go. The technology exists. The patterns are proven in adjacent domains. What’s missing is integration. This is the system compliance needs to become.
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Mitchell Hashimoto ☛ Zig Builds Are Getting Faster
As a result, one of the primary stated goals of Zig for years has been faster compile times. The Zig team has been working on extremely hard problems to make this a reality (such as yeeting LLVM, writing their own code generation backends, building their own linkers, and marching towards incremental compilation in general).2
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LWN ☛ Whatever happened to SHA-256 support in Git?
In other words, work on supporting the use of a hash algorithm other than SHA-1 in Git appears to have ground to a halt. That recently led Stephen Smith to post a query about its status to the development list. This response from Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason is illuminating and, for those looking forward to full SHA-256 support, potentially discouraging: [...]
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Dirk Eddelbuettel ☛ Dirk Eddelbuettel: #053: Adding llvm Snapshots for R Package Testing
Continuing with posts #51 from Tuesday and #52 from Wednesday and their stated intent of posting some more … here is another quick one. Earlier today I helped another package developer who came to the r-package-devel list asking for help with a build error on the Fedora machine at CRAN running recent / development
clang. In such situations, the best first step is often to replicate the issue. As I pointed out on the list, the LLVM team behindclangmaintains an apt repo at apt.llvm.org/ making it a good resource to add to Debian-based container such as Rocker r-base or the offical r-base (the two are in fact interchangeable, and I take care of both).A small pothole, however, is that the documentation at the top of apt.llvm.org site is a bit stale and behind two aspects that changed on current Debian systems (i.e. unstable/testing as used for
r-base).