Software Development recap for week 14/2025

From 31/3/2025 to 6/4/2025

Articles #

• V Programming Language 1432 comments in 15 discussions

• Stroustrup: Languages Like Rust Are an Attack on C++ 999 comments in 7 discussions

• Who would have thought 883 comments in 2 discussions

• Zig is a general-purpose programming language 599 comments in 14 discussions

• The Insanity of Being a Software Engineer 587 comments in 3 discussions

• Quantum Computer Generates Truly Random Number in Scientific First 568 comments in 2 discussions

• Why F#? 495 comments in 5 discussions

• Rust Language (@rustlang) left Twitter, joined Bluesky 422 comments in 1 discussion

• I want to learn about webcontainers, maybe build something along those lines as well.... 396 comments in 5 discussions

• Svelte team switches to JavaScript and JSDoc (2023) 358 comments in 4 discussions

• The <select> element can now be customized with CSS in Chromium browsers 343 comments in 6 discussions

• A Neural Network in 11 lines of Python (2015) 319 comments in 11 discussions

• Dijkstra: On the foolishness of "natural language programming" (2010) 305 comments in 3 discussions

• There is no Vibe Engineering 301 comments in 3 discussions

• Taming the UB monsters in C++ 295 comments in 5 discussions

Releases #

• Microsoft has released their own Agent mode so they've blocked VSCode-derived editors (like Cursor) from using MS extensions 237 comments in 2 discussions

• Announcing Rust 1.86.0 152 comments in 2 discussions

• It has been a record 69 days since the last rust-based Minecraft server was released 122 comments in 2 discussions

• Qt 6.9 released 99 comments in 3 discussions

• Clang 20 has been released 91 comments in 2 discussions

• Django 5.2 released 77 comments in 3 discussions

• jnv: Interactive JSON filter using jq [Released v0.6.0 🚀] 67 comments in 5 discussions

• Nelm, a Helm 3 alternative, is generally available now 56 comments in 2 discussions

• Phoenix 1.8.0-rc released! 27 comments in 1 discussion

• CWebStudio 4.0 Version Release 22 comments in 3 discussions

Projects #

• NotepadNext: A cross-platform, reimplementation of Notepad++ 771 comments in 4 discussions

• After 14 years, Gumroad is officially open source! 💫🚀 219 comments in 2 discussions

• Counter strike like game with 100% PHP code test coverage 217 comments in 3 discussions

• Run unsafe code safely using mem-isolate 127 comments in 2 discussions

• Ferron – A fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust 95 comments in 1 discussion

• Purego: A library for calling C functions from Go without Cgo 85 comments in 2 discussions

• Making my project more recent php conventional 60 comments in 9 discussions

• 🚀 Built a full e-commerce backend in Go using gRPC microservices, GraphQL, Kafka, and Docker — open source on GitHub 56 comments in 1 discussion

• Looking for code review for my recent project 55 comments in 1 discussion

• Secs - Shit ECS has zero unsafe thanks to 1.86 51 comments in 4 discussions

Videos #

• Interview with Vibe Coder 2025 [Vibe Coding meaning full reliance on AI] 48 comments in 2 discussions

• My first game (written in Rust) just launched on steam [AMA in comments] 41 comments in 1 discussion

• C++20 in Chromium (talk series) 25 comments in 1 discussion

• Breaking news: Guido van Rossum back as Python's Benevolent Dictator for Life (BDFL)! 25 comments in 1 discussion

• Tanstack Start vs NextJS - Server Functions Battle 22 comments in 1 discussion

• Powerful timeseries metrics using TimescaleDB and Laravel 11 comments in 1 discussion

• I OSSed some .NET Runtime / Kestrel Grafana dashboards that helped me diagnose a production outage this week 7 comments in 1 discussion