Along with the broader industry trend of transitioning security-sensitive code to memory-safe languages like Rust, there has been an effort to write a Rust-based replacement to GNU Coreutils

To give a bit of context, I am a Discord admin on a small server about development, and we recently got a report from one of our users that…

Posted in r/programming by u/feross • 106 points and 34 comments

QuestDB 6.2.0 brings a brand new JIT (Just-in-Time) compiler as a part of the SQL engine. This post describes our storage model, how we built a JIT compiler for SQL and our plans for improving it in future.

We made a X86 virtual machine that runs in the browser. This is powered by CheerpX, a WebAssembly virtualization solution.

Read in Japanese thanks to the folks at POSTD.

The following are some modern C++ features that I found interesting or unfamiliar at the time of reading “A Tour of C++” by Professor Bjarne Stroustrup, whose C++ course at Columbia University I am currently enrolled in.

When I first started out as an engineer I really leant in to being a hero-engineer; here's the advice I wish I'd listened to earlier. you want to avoid.

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EU Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs study calls for major reforms of US spying laws to enable an EU-US data-sharing agreement to replace Privacy Shield.

How would you build an operating system? My answer is I wouldn't. First off, I don't know how. And the second thing is it seems like to large of a task. It took thousands of developers to build Windows XP.But actually, it is possible to build an operating…

DeepMind teaches AI to code.

Solving novel problems and setting a new milestone in competitive programming.

Posted in r/programming by u/Frogmarsh • 105 points and 27 comments

EU data protection authorities find that the consent popups that plagued Europeans for years are illegal. All data collected through them must be deleted. This decision impacts Google’s, Amazon’s and Microsoft’s online advertising businesses…

Coding with Plutto!

A new series I am trying to make, in which we take funny or odd projects and try to code it.

In this particular project, we turned a 2D Image into Minecraft pixel art and then scaled it in 3D such that it became possible to live in…

You’ve heard of the supply chain, but what about the software supply chain?  Kim Lewandowski, co-founder at Chainguard, is here to explain.

3 years ago, I started developing Swords & Ravens , an open-source online multi-player adaptation of a strategy board game I love, A Game of Thrones: The…

Welcome to the first Windows Terminal release of 2022! This release will add the new features below to Windows Terminal Preview 1.13 and migrate Windows Terminal to version 1.12, which includes all of the features from this previous blog post. The Windows…