Software Development recap for week 15/2025

From 7/4/2025 to 13/4/2025

Articles #

• Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (part I) 1569 comments in 12 discussions

• Clever code is probably the worst code you could write 766 comments in 3 discussions

• What it's like to interview a software engineer preparing with AI 699 comments in 2 discussions

• QuickJS JavaScript Engine 653 comments in 8 discussions

• Sam Altman says AI will make coders 10x more productive, not replace them — Even Bill Gates claims the field is too complex 570 comments in 2 discussions

• WHAT IS DEAD MAY NEVER DIE 559 comments in 4 discussions

• A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate 524 comments in 3 discussions

• rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia 480 comments in 3 discussions

• Rust is easy? Go is… hard? 437 comments in 3 discussions

• AI coding mandates are driving developers to the brink 435 comments in 2 discussions

• PEP 750 – Template Strings has been accepted 420 comments in 3 discussions

• The Best Programmers I Know 370 comments in 5 discussions

• Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days - and never imagined it would last 20 years 358 comments in 3 discussions

• AI code suggestions sabotage software supply chain 350 comments in 2 discussions

• 20 years of Git 343 comments in 3 discussions

Releases #

• Chumsky 0.10, a library for writing user-friendly and maintainable parsers, has been released 159 comments in 4 discussions

• wgpu v25.0.0 Released! 67 comments in 3 discussions

• Crystal 1.16.0 is released! 45 comments in 2 discussions

• JSON for Modern C++ 3.12.0 released 31 comments in 1 discussion

• GCL 2.7.1 has been released 29 comments in 2 discussions

• Just released: Zero-dependency Web Component for swipeable card decks (Tinder-style) 24 comments in 2 discussions

• ZCS — An Entity Component System in Zig 19 comments in 2 discussions

• Vari v1.0.0 released: Variadic pointers 9 comments in 1 discussion

• cl-yasboi: Yet Another Starter Boilerplate for Common Lisp 9 comments in 2 discussions

• OpenSSH 10.0 released 8 comments in 1 discussion

Projects #

• Text extraction from PDF, Images, Office Documents and more 176 comments in 4 discussions

• Why did just have to update the AWS Go SDK to v2? Annoying 155 comments in 12 discussions

• GitHub - samber/lo: 💥 A Lodash-style Go library based on Go 1.18+ Generics (map, filter, contains, find...) 140 comments in 6 discussions

• Made my own Linux distro and package manager in C++ — blazing fast and still growing 134 comments in 1 discussion

• Whenever: Typed and DST-safe datetimes for Python 134 comments in 1 discussion

• Suggestions on Linq like library for Golang 109 comments in 2 discussions

• Netbird: connect your devices into a WireGuard overlay network with SSO, MFA and granular access controls 106 comments in 4 discussions

• Facet: Rust reflection, serialization, deserialization – know the shape of your 103 comments in 2 discussions

• I had to quickly switch PHP versions for a composer requirement. Then, I got annoyed with all the brew commands, so I wrapped them in a CLI tool. 90 comments in 1 discussion

• Rust CUDA Project 78 comments in 4 discussions

Videos #

• The existential threat against C++ and where to go from here - Helge Penne - NDC TechTown 2024 404 comments in 3 discussions

• Senior Engineer tries Vibe Coding. 98 comments in 1 discussion

• Python 3.14 | Upcoming Changes Breakdown 45 comments in 1 discussion

• MediatR, MassTransit, AutoMapper Going Commercial? Chill... Let's Talk About How Open Source Actually Works. 37 comments in 1 discussion

• NodeJs + SQL query vs. ASPNET Core + ORM query 20 comments in 1 discussion

• Hacking the PlayStation Boot Logo 16 comments in 1 discussion

• Why I love Zig (after using it for two years) 14 comments in 1 discussion