Programming Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 19, 2025

• Hackaday ☛ Writing Type-Safe Generics In C

  The fun part about a programming language like C is that although the language doesn’t directly support many features including object-oriented programming and generics, there’s nothing that’s keeping you from implementing said features in C. This extends to something like type-safe generics in C, as [Raph] demonstrates in a blog post.

• LWN ☛ Git 2.52.0 released

  Version 2.52.0 of the Git

  source-code management system has been released. Changes include a new

  last-modified command to find the closest ancestor commit that

  touched one or more paths, a couple of git refs improvements, a

  new git repo command for obtaining information about the

  repository itself, and more.

• Perl / Raku

  • Rakulang ☛ Rakudo Weekly 2025.46 Advent Alert & Release #187

    Congrats to the team for the new Rakudo compiler, Release #187 (2025.11).

  • Perl ☛ 2025-11-16 [Older] Wiki Haven: Digital.Security V 1.20, Mojolicious V 1.09, Perl V 1.34