Programming Leftovers
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Joe Heck ☛ Code Spelunking in DocC
Head’s up: this post is a technical deep dive into the code of DocC, the Swift language documentation system. Not that my content doesn’t tend to be heavily technical, but this goes even further than usual.
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The New Stack ☛ The Key Fundamentals of Programming You Should Know
For many people, software development is some inexplicable thing relegated to the über smart who’ve spent years studying computer science
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Qt ☛ Qt for Android Automotive 6.8 LTS Released!
Today, we released Qt for Android Automotive 6.8 Long Term Support (LTS) release. It builds upon Qt 6.8 which by itself bring a myriad of new features and bug fixes. You can check the full list of features in Qt 6.8 Released blog post.
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David Farrell ☛ I'm Not Mutable, I'm Partially Instantiated
Believe it or not, these six lines of code implement a dictionary as an ordered, binary search tree. The rule lookup/3 can be used to both add to and get from the dictionary.
This query calls lookup/3 with a key, a variable, and a value. The variable is instantiated to a new dictionary containing the key-value pair and the variables _A and _B in the left and right branches: [...]
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Perl / Raku
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Olaf Alders ☛ How I Spent My First London Perl Workshop
Earlier this year I was excited (one might even say well chuffed) when I heard that the London Perl Workshop was coming back after a hiatus of several years. I knew that in all likelihood I would not be able to attend, but it has been a bucket list item of mine for quite some time. You may be thinking to yourself that I have a weird bucket list. You’re not wrong.
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On Saturday morning, Leo and I headed down to the conference on foot, since our hotel was quite close to the venu. We grabbed a coffee on the way and then did the registration, which consisted of putting your name on a name tag and getting your conference scarf. Providing a scarf as swag means the organizers don’t have to take sizes or different styles into account. Very smart.
Here I had the chance to (re)connect with even more people, since just a small fraction of the attendees had been at the Friday evening social. The event was incredibly well attended. The vibe was positive, with lots of laughs and lots of interesting talks.
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Python
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Simon Willison ☛ uv 0.5.0
uv 0.5.0. The first backwards-incompatible (in minor ways) release after 30 releases without a breaking change.
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Rust
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LWN ☛ Cohen: gccrs: An alternative compiler for Rust
Arthur Cohen has posted a
detailed introduction to the gccrs project on the Rust Blog, seemingly
with the goal of convincing the Rust community about the value of the
project.
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