Programming Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 05, 2025

• Andreas Schneider: CMocka 2.0 Released: Enhancing Unit Testing in C

  I am thrilled to announce the release of cmocka 2.0, a milestone for the cmocka project.

  cmocka is a unit testing framework for C, designed to be simple, portable, and easy to use. It provides a straightforward API for writing and running tests, making it an excellent choice for developers who need to ensure the reliability and correctness of their C code.

• LWN ☛ cmocka 2.0 released

  Andreas Schneider has announced version 2.0 of the cmocka unit-testing framework for C: [...]

• LWN ☛ Cro provides commentary on LWN's Zig asynchronicity article

  Loris Cro has published a detailed YouTube video talking about the terminology used to discuss asynchronicity, concurrency, and parallelism in our recent article about Zig's new Io interface. Our article is not completely clear because it uses the term "asynchronous I/O" to refer to what should really be called "non-blocking I/O", and sometimes confuses asynchronicity for concurrency, among other errors of terminology, he says. Readers interested in precise details about Zig's approach and some of the motivation behind the design may find Cro's video interesting.

• GNOME ☛ Felipe Borges: One Project Selected for the December 2025 Outreachy Cohort with GNOME!

  We are happy to announce that the GNOME Foundation is sponsoring an Outreachy project for the December 2025 Outreachy cohort.

  Outreachy provides internships to people subject to systemic bias and impacted by underrepresentation in the tech industry where they are living.

  Let’s welcome Malika Asman! Malika will be working with Lucas Baudin on improving document signing in Papers, our document viewer.