Software Development recap for week 4/2024

From 22/1/2024 to 28/1/2024

Articles #

• Why the fuck are we templating yaml? 1541 comments in 5 discussions

• Nearly 25,000 tech workers were laid off in the first weeks of 2024. Why is that? 1396 comments in 4 discussions

• Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster 1257 comments in 12 discussions

• Agile development is fading in popularity at large enterprises - and developer burnout is a key factor 1221 comments in 2 discussions

• New GitHub Copilot Research Finds 'Downward Pressure on Code Quality' 1094 comments in 8 discussions

• You are never taught how to build quality software 982 comments in 4 discussions

• Lapce: Cross Platform Fast Code Editor in Rust 806 comments in 11 discussions

• So you think you know C? 782 comments in 4 discussions

• Developers experience burnout, but 70% of them code on weekends 719 comments in 4 discussions

• Apple is bringing alternate web engines to the iPhone (along with side-loading), but for the EU only. 703 comments in 6 discussions

• The Zed multiplayer text editor is now open source 671 comments in 2 discussions

• Hiring ONLY seniors is the worst policy in the software industry 610 comments in 2 discussions

• You don't need JavaScript for that 513 comments in 8 discussions

• Trunk-Based Development 471 comments in 8 discussions

• Why Zig When There Is Already C++, D, and Rust? 468 comments in 3 discussions

Releases #

• C23 is Finished: Here is What is on the Menu 299 comments in 4 discussions

• WASI 0.2.0 and Why It Matters | wasmCloud. Preview 2 is released. 105 comments in 1 discussion

• HTMX 2.0.0-alpha1 has been released 33 comments in 2 discussions

• Embassy crates released and Rust stable support 31 comments in 1 discussion

• PyMilo v0.4 Release: Python Library for Machine Learning I/O (+ Clustering) 22 comments in 1 discussion

• Go 1.22 Release Candidate 2 is released 14 comments in 1 discussion

• Extralite 2.6 released! 13 comments in 2 discussions

• hi_sparse_bitset 0.5.0 release: hierarchical sparse bitset with incredibly high performance 13 comments in 2 discussions

• OpenTofu is going GA 11 comments in 2 discussions

• A new release of zlib emerges 6 comments in 1 discussion

Projects #

• Cognitive Load In Software Development 680 comments in 17 discussions

• Navigating Rust's Ecosystem: The Impact and Influence of Curated Lists like awesome-rust 178 comments in 6 discussions

• Sane C++ Libraries 145 comments in 1 discussion

• CLOG and CLOG Builder 1.8 126 comments in 9 discussions

• Zed, a collaborative text editor written from the ground up in Rust, has been open-sourced, along with its UI framework, GPUI 120 comments in 1 discussion

• Hypersomnia - Open source modern C++ game, a mix of Hotline Miami / Counter-Strike, multiplayer 96 comments in 3 discussions

• My cli calculator kalc is pretty good now 83 comments in 7 discussions

• TySON (TypeScript Object Notation) 69 comments in 5 discussions

• Show HN: Shipp, a deadly simple package manager for your C/C++ projects, in Rust 66 comments in 3 discussions

• mtm: Perhaps the smallest useful terminal multiplexer in the world 65 comments in 5 discussions

Videos #

• How to Adopt Modern C++17 into Your C++ Code [video] 377 comments in 3 discussions

• Linus: "we're moving from C to Rust" 95 comments in 1 discussion

• Zig Roadmap 2024 [video] 47 comments in 2 discussions

• Closures in Common Lisp, when CLOS Is Too Much 22 comments in 1 discussion

• Issues with borrows and arrays/vecs 17 comments in 1 discussion

• Zig Roadmap 2024 with Andrew Kelley 14 comments in 1 discussion

• How to Write a Full-Stack Scala Application with the Typelevel Stack 12 comments in 1 discussion