Software Development recap for week 52/2024

From 23/12/2024 to 29/12/2024

Articles #

• Ghostty 1.0 1456 comments in 7 discussions

• Does current AI represent a dead end? 1149 comments in 2 discussions

• That's not an abstraction 559 comments in 6 discussions

• C++ Is An Absolute Blast 519 comments in 3 discussions

• When Zig Is Safer and Faster Than Rust 501 comments in 6 discussions

• F* : A general-purpose proof-oriented programming language 466 comments in 11 discussions

• Lua is so underrated 408 comments in 2 discussions

• Debian’s approach to Rust - Dependency handling (2022) 365 comments in 6 discussions

• Fish 4.0: The Fish Of Theseus 328 comments in 6 discussions

• What Google’s quantum computing breakthrough Willow means for the future of bitcoin and other cryptos. Crypto will be useless in 10-15 years. 275 comments in 1 discussion

• Algorithms interviews: theory v. practice 264 comments in 5 discussions

• Svelte 5 is mostly great, but there are serious issues 261 comments in 2 discussions

• Write a Shell in C 218 comments in 5 discussions

• Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP 213 comments in 1 discussion

• Compiling C to Safe Rust, Formalized 206 comments in 3 discussions

Releases #

• Ruby 3.4.0 Released 283 comments in 3 discussions

• {fmt} 11.1 released with improved C++20 module support, smaller debug binary size, fixes and more 37 comments in 1 discussion

• Released scanme v.1.02 https://github.com/CyberRoute/scanme 19 comments in 2 discussions

• Arcan 0.7 – The All Tomato 13 comments in 2 discussions

• Ruby 3.4.1 Released 13 comments in 1 discussion

• Hi all. I used Ruby to make a custom GitHub action. Prevents creating a new release with an outdated version mentioned in the code somewhere. Feel free to give input! 12 comments in 1 discussion

• I just released version 1.2.0 of my package "aarol/reload", which enables easy hot-reloading of web server assets 11 comments in 2 discussions

• cl-airtable v0.6.0 Released! 6 comments in 1 discussion

• melt-ui for svelte 5 just released 4 comments in 1 discussion

• Veloren 0.17 release party - a 3D voxel-based action MMORPG, written in Rust 2 comments in 1 discussion

Projects #

• Made a Self hosted ebook2audiobook converter, supports voice cloning and 1107+ languages :) 276 comments in 6 discussions

• GitHub - microsoft/markitdown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown. 177 comments in 3 discussions

• CobolCraft: A Minecraft server written in COBOL 143 comments in 3 discussions

• spacer - a CLI tool to insert spacers when command output stops 90 comments in 2 discussions

• Pilgram, an infinite texting based idle game / MMO RPG 74 comments in 3 discussions

• my code is slower with go routines 61 comments in 1 discussion

• 150 papers for Software Engineers 60 comments in 5 discussions

• Built a terminal-style website 51 comments in 1 discussion

• So I'm making an open-source C GUI library and need advice. 51 comments in 1 discussion

• Introducing SQLC C# Plugin: A reverse ORM for .NET Developers 🚀 43 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

• Jon Skeet reads the C# 6 specification by the fire 77 comments in 4 discussions

• I Deployed the Same App on DigitalOcean and Hetzner! | Cheap vs Expensive VPS! 36 comments in 2 discussions

• Visualizing memory layout of Rust's data types 29 comments in 1 discussion

• James Gosling on Java - Historical Oddities & Persistent Itches 19 comments in 2 discussions

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

• Catching up with async Rust 16 comments in 1 discussion

• How I configure Ghostty 9 comments in 1 discussion