Software Development recap for week 51/2024

From 16/12/2024 to 22/12/2024

Articles #

• WG21, aka C++ Standard Committee, December 2024 Mailing 940 comments in 9 discussions

• If Not React, Then What? 882 comments in 3 discussions

• It is becoming difficult for me to be productive in Python 856 comments in 3 discussions

• Why we use our own hardware at Fastmail 579 comments in 2 discussions

• Is modern Front-End development overengineered? 522 comments in 1 discussion

• Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone 520 comments in 5 discussions

• Github Copilot is Free in VS Code 492 comments in 4 discussions

• After 3 Years, I Failed. Here's All My Startup's Code. 483 comments in 3 discussions

• What did Ada Lovelace's program actually do? 467 comments in 6 discussions

• Java in the Small 442 comments in 3 discussions

• Includeable minimal operating system for C++ 368 comments in 7 discussions

• How do you do, fellow web developers? A growing disconnect. 365 comments in 3 discussions

• Why I love Rust for tokenising and parsing 356 comments in 4 discussions

• How types make hard problems easy 336 comments in 2 discussions

• Why I Use Nim Instead of Python for Data Processing 326 comments in 5 discussions

Releases #

• Fish 4.0b1 is out (beta release of the Rust port) 121 comments in 3 discussions

• SFML 3 is released! 46 comments in 1 discussion

• Elixir 1.18 Released 44 comments in 3 discussions

• Swoole 6.0 released, multi-threading support added 26 comments in 1 discussion

• Java DataFrame library 1.0 GA release 25 comments in 1 discussion

• egui 0.30.0 Released! Includes new testing framework 25 comments in 1 discussion

• New gem released! rails_local_analytics 21 comments in 1 discussion

• Hotwire Spark: live reloading for Rails applications 17 comments in 2 discussions

• A first release candidate for axum v0.8.0 is out - please try it! 14 comments in 1 discussion

• XDG Desktop Portal 1.19.1 released, with Notifications v2, new USB portal and URI scheme support system 8 comments in 2 discussions

Projects #

• You can make an application that contains admob in codespace??? 732 comments in 7 discussions

• Rewriting Minecraft's Chunk generation in Rust 389 comments in 7 discussions

• ergo: A modern IRC server (daemon/ircd) written in Go 287 comments in 3 discussions

• Microsoft open-sourced a Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown 180 comments in 3 discussions

• Query Apple's FindMy network with Python 179 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: Lightpanda, an open-source headless browser in Zig 137 comments in 1 discussion

• Node.js Best Practices 2024 94 comments in 5 discussions

• First Interpreter Project — Finally Clicked after 3 unsuccessful attempts. 87 comments in 5 discussions

• XState – State machines for state management in JavaScript 86 comments in 2 discussions

• Rivet – Cloudflare Durable Objects-like infrastructure built with Rust, FoundationDB, V8 Isolates 84 comments in 5 discussions

Videos #

• "I Built the Same App in ALL Versions of PHP (1995-2025)" 39 comments in 1 discussion

• Spin v3: Deploy Laravel Like a Pro (Without Being a DevOps Expert) [more in comments] 27 comments in 1 discussion

• It took me way longer than I'd like to admit to realize how crucial setting up CustomUser is before the first migration. 27 comments in 1 discussion

• Introducing Clay - High Performance UI Layout in C 26 comments in 2 discussions

• Rust LifeTimes 20 comments in 4 discussions

• Seed7 - The Extensible Programming Language • Thomas Mertes • 11/2024 19 comments in 2 discussions

• What makes ktor great 15 comments in 1 discussion