Software Development recap for week 10/2023

From 6/3/2023 to 12/3/2023

Articles #

• Discord and the JVM 964 comments in 7 discussions

• Uncle Bob and Casey Muratori Discuss Clean Code 682 comments in 6 discussions

• Microkernel vs Monolithic systems: the Jan.29 1992 Minix newsgroup debate between Linus Torvalds and Andrew Tanenbaum 614 comments in 7 discussions

• Google Groups has been left to die 604 comments in 4 discussions

• React Is Holding Me Hostage | A love & hate relationship 581 comments in 3 discussions

• Linus Torvalds on Debuggers (2000) 576 comments in 5 discussions

• I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition mechanisms 573 comments in 2 discussions

• Flying toasters (and other old screensavers) in CSS 511 comments in 7 discussions

• When Zig is safer and faster than Rust 510 comments in 6 discussions

• Introducing the AI Mirror Test, which very smart people keep failing 503 comments in 4 discussions

• A Great Old-Timey Game-Programming Hack (2013) 503 comments in 9 discussions

• Why Python keeps growing, explained 479 comments in 2 discussions

• Reliability: It's Not Great 461 comments in 3 discussions

• What a good debugger can do 417 comments in 5 discussions

• Rust Is the Future of JavaScript Infrastructure (2021) 417 comments in 5 discussions

Releases #

• I released a rc version after almost 1 year working solo on an ecommerce open source project. Looking for feedbacks and recommendations. Thank everyone 218 comments in 10 discussions

• JEP Pattern Matching for switch + Records Patterns planned for final release (not preview) in Java 21 45 comments in 1 discussion

• Yay! I wanted ChatGPT in my terminal and created gogpt. I just released gogpt v0.0.2 which has chat capabilities and I think it's cool 43 comments in 2 discussions

• Skeleton 1.0 released! 34 comments in 1 discussion

• jQuery 3.6.4 Released: Selector Forgiveness 30 comments in 1 discussion

• vcpkg 2023.02.24 Release: Default Triplet Changes, RISC-V support, Bug Fixes, and More... 25 comments in 1 discussion

• JShrink, the pure PHP Javascript Minifier, has biggest release since 2014 18 comments in 1 discussion

• Guile Hacker Handbook - New chapters released 9 comments in 1 discussion

• Databend 1.0 Release | Blog | Databend 7 comments in 1 discussion

• Finder 3.0: CSS Selector Generator 7 comments in 2 discussions

Projects #

• RustPython – A Python-3 (CPython >= 3.11.0) Interpreter written in Rust 690 comments in 13 discussions

• LLaMA-7B in Pure C++ with full Apple Silicon support 286 comments in 2 discussions

• I started a repo to gather a collection of scripts that leverage programing language quirks that cause unexpected behavior. It's just so much fun to see the wheels turning in someone's head when you show them a script like this. Please send in a PR if you feel like you have a great example! 276 comments in 3 discussions

• Guitar Effects Processor - a low latency guitar effects processor in C++ suitable for running on smaller boards (e.g. a raspberry pi) 227 comments in 3 discussions

• C Template Library 155 comments in 3 discussions

• GitHub: A library for audio and music analysis, feature extraction. 149 comments in 11 discussions

• Looking for a Rust TUI library similar to textual for python 123 comments in 4 discussions

• Simple, fast and safety alternative for unzip 113 comments in 1 discussion

• Up to 100x Faster FastAPI with simdjson and io_uring on Linux 5.19+ 98 comments in 2 discussions

• Crabs grow up. Rust terminal weather app. 91 comments in 2 discussions

Videos #

• Fellow Rust enthusiasts: What "sucks" about Rust? 779 comments in 3 discussions

• Growing a Language (1998) 177 comments in 11 discussions

• "We don't have architects, I don't like architects, Everybody architects" — ThePrimeagen (Netflix) 89 comments in 1 discussion

• There is No “Tooling Issue” in Haskell 54 comments in 1 discussion

• React Server Components with Dan Abramov, Joe Savona, and Kent C. Dodds 50 comments in 1 discussion

• This is the most understandable explanation I've seen about the borrowing model so far. I think it's finally really starting to click. 43 comments in 2 discussions

• Johan Berg: Deducing this, C++23's Explicit Object Parameter 33 comments in 1 discussion