Software Development recap for week 26/2024

From 24/6/2024 to 30/6/2024

Articles #

• C and C++ Prioritize Performance over Correctness 1120 comments in 7 discussions

• I spent 18 months rebuilding my algorithmic trading in Rust. I’m filled with regret. 991 comments in 4 discussions

• Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful 708 comments in 2 discussions

• My spiciest take on tech hiring 486 comments in 3 discussions

• A Bunch of Programming Advice I'd Give To Myself 15 Years Ago 409 comments in 5 discussions

• Dev rejects CVE severity, makes his GitHub repo read-only 401 comments in 2 discussions

• Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites 389 comments in 4 discussions

• Rabbit R1 Engineers Hard-Coded API Keys for ElevenLabs, Azure, Google Maps, and Yelp. How Does This Even Happen? 356 comments in 4 discussions

• C isn't a programming language anymore (2022) 339 comments in 4 discussions

• TIL: 8 versions of UUID and when to use them 338 comments in 6 discussions

• Sustaining Digital Certificate Security - Entrust Certificate Distrust 255 comments in 4 discussions

• Ant Group open sources Mako, a front-end build tool, based on Rust. 253 comments in 4 discussions

• Timeliness without datagrams using QUIC 232 comments in 2 discussions

• gRPC: The Bad Parts 230 comments in 2 discussions

• Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from JavaScript to WasmGC 223 comments in 2 discussions

Releases #

• kalc v1.3.0 released, looking for suggestions 83 comments in 7 discussions

• The commenter is ready to release its first stable version 🚀. 39 comments in 3 discussions

• [ANN] cabal-install-3.12.1.0 (and accompanying libraries) released 15 comments in 1 discussion

• Just released phasync/http-client 12 comments in 1 discussion

• Laravel v11.13.0 Released: New Number::pairs, New Str::chopStart and Str::chopEnd and update in Str::markdown - msamgan.com 8 comments in 1 discussion

• Kelp version 2 released! 7 comments in 1 discussion

• Laravel v11.12.0 Released: New multiply method in collections 6 comments in 1 discussion

• mp-units 2.2.0 released! - mp-units 6 comments in 1 discussion

• New Terminator Release: v2.1.4 6 comments in 1 discussion

• 🚀 Update Alert: Rusty JSON v1.2.1 Released! 5 comments in 1 discussion

Projects #

• rusty.hpp: A Borrow Checker and Memory Ownership System for C++20 (heavily inspired from Rust) 205 comments in 3 discussions

• Nuitka Is a Python Compiler 181 comments in 1 discussion

• Advanced best practice pattern in react - Looking for sources / lists 136 comments in 9 discussions

• I got rejected for a job as an AI software engineer and I want a second opinion 132 comments in 1 discussion

• LZAV 4.1 (compiler compliance fix). Fast In-Memory Data Compression Algorithm (inline C/C++) 460+MB/s compress, 2500+MB/s decompress, ratio% better than LZ4, Snappy, and Zstd@-1 127 comments in 4 discussions

• How we're trying to make our PHP devs become efficient also with Golang 110 comments in 5 discussions

• Stalin: Brutally Optimizing Scheme Compiler 106 comments in 4 discussions

• flutter_rust_bridge v2.0.0: Flutter/Dart <-> Rust binding generator 101 comments in 5 discussions

• Positron is a data science IDE for R and Python by the author of RStudio 78 comments in 3 discussions

• Show HN: a Rust lib to trigger actions based on your screen activity (with LLMs) 69 comments in 4 discussions

Videos #

• APL Demonstration (1975) [video] 445 comments in 7 discussions

• If AI is too dangerous for open source AI development, then it's 100 times too dangerous for proprietary AI development by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Apple, etc. 204 comments in 2 discussions

• Seeking Advice: Transitioning from College C Programming to Industry Standards and Open Source Projects 193 comments in 2 discussions

• How to rewrite legacy system without pain 34 comments in 1 discussion

• Continuations: The magic behind virtual threads in Java 24 comments in 1 discussion

• It's been a long time since I learned a new programming language - so I built a couple of artificial life simulators to learn Crystal-lang and I am super impressed with this language. Why isn't it way more popular? 22 comments in 2 discussions

• Java Language Futures - Spring 2024 Edition (Gavin Bierman) 17 comments in 1 discussion