Software Development recap for week 17/2025

From 21/4/2025 to 27/4/2025

Articles #

• Getting Forked by Microsoft 1457 comments in 3 discussions

• I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice 622 comments in 3 discussions

• Python's new t-strings 540 comments in 3 discussions

• The Hidden Cost of AI Coding 537 comments in 2 discussions

• Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature 527 comments in 5 discussions

• How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2 502 comments in 5 discussions

• Three Fundamental Flaws of SIMD ISAs 456 comments in 7 discussions

• When /etc/h*sts Breaks Your Substack Editor: An Adventure in Web Content Filtering 434 comments in 3 discussions

• Microsoft revokes C++ extension from VS Code forks 421 comments in 2 discussions

• Comprehensive Rust by Google - nice open source book 373 comments in 8 discussions

• Does using Rust really make your software safer? 338 comments in 4 discussions

• Programming in D: Tutorial and Reference 328 comments in 6 discussions

• A New Form of Verification on Bluesky 318 comments in 2 discussions

• Things Zig comptime won't do 282 comments in 4 discussions

• Notation as a Tool of Thought (1979) 270 comments in 9 discussions

Releases #

• GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection 15.1 released 170 comments in 3 discussions

• faer: efficient linear algebra library for rust - 0.22 release 52 comments in 2 discussions

• Massive Release - Burn 0.17.0: Up to 5x Faster and a New Metal Compiler 31 comments in 1 discussion

• Just released my first C-based CLI tool - would love your thoughts and suggestions 26 comments in 2 discussions

• React Compiler update: RC release! 23 comments in 1 discussion

• Jakarta EE 11 Web Profile Released, Enabled by Eclipse GlassFish 16 comments in 1 discussion

• SFML 3.0.1 is released! 15 comments in 1 discussion

• Task v3.43 is released! 🤩 15 comments in 1 discussion

• I’m a self taught PHP hobbyist turned dev and I released my first open source project that you can install on composer! Just wanted to share. 14 comments in 1 discussion

• Rerun 0.23 released - a fast 2D/3D visualizer 13 comments in 1 discussion

Projects #

• Sapphire: Rust based package manager for macOS 321 comments in 3 discussions

• I’m 15 and built a neural network from scratch in C++ — no frameworks, just math and code 250 comments in 2 discussions

• The Record/Tuple ECMAScript Proposal has been withdrawn 194 comments in 8 discussions

• Rebuilt WorkLenz 2.0 with React – Here’s Why We Moved from Angular 163 comments in 6 discussions

• I built an email finder in Rust because I’m not paying $99/mo for RocketReach 137 comments in 3 discussions

• Reverse engineering the obfuscated TikTok VM 133 comments in 3 discussions

• 101 BASIC Computer Games 105 comments in 1 discussion

• Make your module faster in benchmarks by using tariffs on competing modules! 102 comments in 2 discussions

• Concrete, an interesting language written in Rust 94 comments in 3 discussions

• Seems like new OpenAI models leave invisible watermarks in the generated text 93 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

• CS programs have failed candidates. 648 comments in 1 discussion

• Do people who use Rust as their main language agree with the comments that Rust is not suitable for game dev? 249 comments in 2 discussions

• "Why Software Devs Keep Burning Out" by HealthyGamerGG 115 comments in 1 discussion

• Simple Made Easy - Prime Reacts 36 comments in 1 discussion

• The Future of Write Once, Run Anywhere: From Java to WebAssembly [video] 34 comments in 1 discussion

• Building a robust AI system (with Laravel) 30 comments in 1 discussion

• How We Diagnosed and Fixed the 2023 Voyager 1 Anomaly from 15 Billion Miles Away 23 comments in 3 discussions