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Julia co-creator, Jeff Bezanson, on what’s wrong with Julialang and how to tackle issues...

The Julia language, which has been touted as the new fastest-growing programming language, held its 6th Annual JuliaCon 2019, between July 22nd to 26th...
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DeepCode, the AI startup for code review, raises $4M seed funding; will be free...

Today, Deepcode, the tool that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help developers write better code, raised $4M in seed funding to expand it’s machine...
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GNU C Library version 2.30 releases with POSIX-proposed functions, support for Unicode 12.1.0, new...

Last week, the GNU C Library version 2.30 was made available to all users. The major highlights of this release include new POSIX (Portable...
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MacOS terminal emulator, iTerm2 3.3.0 is here with new Python scripting API, a scriptable...

Yesterday, the team behind iTerm2, the GPL-licensed terminal emulator for macOS, announced the release of iTerm2 3.3.0. It is a major release with many...
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OpenJDK Project Valhalla is ready for developers working in building data structures or compiler...

This year the JVM Language Summit 2019 was held on July 29th – 31st at Santa Clara, California. On the first day of the...
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Is Dark an AWS Lambda challenger?

On Monday, the CEO and Co-founder of Dark, Ellen Chisa, announced the project had raised $3.5 million in funding in a Medium post. Dark...
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Electron 6.0 releases with improved Promise support, native Touch ID authentication support, and more

On Tuesday, the team behind Electron, the web framework for building desktop apps, announced the release of Electron 6.0. It comes with further improvement...
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Unity 2019.2 releases with updated ProBuilder, Shader Graph, 2D Animation, Burst Compiler and more

Yesterday, the Unity team announced the release of Unity 2019.2. In this release, they have added more than 170 new features and enhancements for...
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Stack Overflow suffered an outage yesterday

Yesterday the Stack Overflow site was down according to its status report on the site. The outage map reported, 931 issues on the Stack...
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NumPy 1.17.0 is here, officially drops Python 2.7 support pushing forward Python 3 adoption

Last week, the Python team released NumPy version 1.17.0. This version has many new features, improvements and changes to increase the performance of NumPy. The...

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GNU Radio 3.8.0.0 releases with new dependencies, Python 2 and 3...

Last week, the team behind GNU Radio announced the release of GNU Radio 3.8, a free and open-source software development toolkit. GNU Radio 3.8.0.0...

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