Software Development recap for week 12/2025

From 17/3/2025 to 23/3/2025

Articles #

• Great news for DOOM in TypeScript types! 2120 comments in 11 discussions

• A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009) 1039 comments in 17 discussions

• C++ creator calls for help to defend programming language from 'serious attacks' 999 comments in 7 discussions

• The Frontend Treadmill 681 comments in 3 discussions

• The atrocious state of binary compatibility on Linux 474 comments in 4 discussions

• A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate (python) 435 comments in 2 discussions

• "Vibe Coding" vs Reality 407 comments in 4 discussions

• Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them 398 comments in 2 discussions

• uv starting to overtake Poetry in package download 349 comments in 2 discussions

• Why 'Vibe Coding' Makes Me Want to Throw Up 318 comments in 3 discussions

• Why Lisp Syntax Works 312 comments in 2 discussions

• 95% AI-written code? What do we think of the Y Combinator CEO’s recent claims... 307 comments in 2 discussions

• Why I'm No Longer Talking to Architects About Microservices 306 comments in 3 discussions

• LLM crawlers continue to DDoS SourceHut 297 comments in 3 discussions

• Note to the C++ standards committee members on profiles and safety 295 comments in 2 discussions

Releases #

• The new release of the Memsafe project is a proof of concept for memory safety in C++ without breaking backward compatibility with old legacy code. 196 comments in 3 discussions

• Zellij 0.42.0 released: stacked resize, pinned floating panes and new Rust plugin APIs 46 comments in 3 discussions

• Current v1.0 is released! 21 comments in 1 discussion

• TruffleRuby 24.2.0 Release 16 comments in 1 discussion

• Introducing GREASE: An Open-Source Tool for Uncovering Hidden Vulnerabilities in Binary Code 14 comments in 2 discussions

• Kotlin 2.1.20 Released 13 comments in 2 discussions

• Cforge v1.2.0 has been released! 10 comments in 1 discussion

• Okrand 1.4.0 released 7 comments in 2 discussions

• Java 24 and GraalVM for JDK 24 Released 7 comments in 1 discussion

• Django 5.2 release candidate 1 released 6 comments in 1 discussion

Projects #

• Rio is an easy-to-use, open-source framework for creating websites and apps, built entirely with Python. 414 comments in 8 discussions

• IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol 211 comments in 1 discussion

• An open-source log structured merge tree library (Persistent column/key value storage) 135 comments in 9 discussions

• Show HN: A terminal emulator in pure PHP 116 comments in 2 discussions

• retroboy: A Game Boy emulator written in Rust that runs on the web 113 comments in 2 discussions

• argp: GNU-style command line argument parser for Go 87 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: FastOpenAPI – automated docs for many Python frameworks 76 comments in 1 discussion

• Adminer: Database management in a single PHP file 63 comments in 2 discussions

• Marl: Hybrid thread / fiber task scheduler written in C++ 11 60 comments in 2 discussions

• Chibi: PNG-tuber application made in Rust 52 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

• I built a GPU-accelerated image viewer with Iced and wgpu 40 comments in 1 discussion

• Python Quirks I Secretly Like 30 comments in 1 discussion

• The State of Personal Online Security and Confidentiality 18 comments in 1 discussion

• Make actual PlayStation 1 games in Unity (running on original vintage hardware) 15 comments in 1 discussion

• This Thumbnail Is Actually A Game in C++ 14 comments in 1 discussion

• I built a macOS app using 50% Rust (egui) and 50% Swift (SwiftUI) 14 comments in 2 discussions

• A Decision Maker's Guide to Typed Functional Languages • Evan Czaplicki 13 comments in 3 discussions