Software Development recap for week 36/2022

From 5/9/2022 to 11/9/2022

Articles #

• After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. 1797 comments in 9 discussions

• Oxford Physicist Unloads on Quantum Computing, Says It's a Hype Bubble 1092 comments in 5 discussions

• Scala isn't fun anymore 851 comments in 3 discussions

• Why We Are Changing the License for Akka 711 comments in 6 discussions

• Why GoLang supports null references if they are billion dollar mistake? 693 comments in 8 discussions

• The Birth & Death of JavaScript 503 comments in 14 discussions

• Why Zig When There Is Already C++, D, and Rust? 468 comments in 3 discussions

• Is Engineering Management Bullshit? 464 comments in 2 discussions

• Fossil Versus Git 449 comments in 5 discussions

• Zig, the Small Language 433 comments in 2 discussions

• [-Ofast & shared libraries] Someone’s Been Messing With My Subnormals! 414 comments in 6 discussions

• Should I prefer IHostedService over Task.Run(...)? 389 comments in 15 discussions

• Cheating at chess with a computer for my shoes 371 comments in 7 discussions

• An almost religious case for Rust 371 comments in 2 discussions

• Introducing Svelte, and Comparing Svelte with React and Vue 371 comments in 6 discussions

Releases #

• Tor Project | Arti 1.0.0 is released: Our Rust Tor implementation is ready for production use 278 comments in 6 discussions

• Node.js creator Ryan Dahl urges Oracle to release JavaScript trademark 106 comments in 1 discussion

• LLVM 15.0.0 Release 93 comments in 2 discussions

• Node.js creator Ryan Dahl urges Oracle to release JavaScript trademark • DEVCLASS 50 comments in 1 discussion

• Python in Visual Studio Code – September 2022 Release 46 comments in 1 discussion

• Tool Supported Meta Programming Lib v.1.0.1 release 25 comments in 3 discussions

• Thonny 4.0 has been released! In-built python updated to 3.10 64-bit, even more support for uPythons, automatic completions available, in-line venv-switching, tonnes of QoL 15 comments in 1 discussion

• Scala 3.2 released! 15 comments in 1 discussion

• Pomksy 0.7 released: A faster parser, WASM module published to npm, improved error messages, and more! 14 comments in 1 discussion

• I recently released deptry; a utility to check your Poetry-managed Python projects for obsolete, transitive, missing and misplaced dependencies. 12 comments in 1 discussion

Projects #

• Is there any way to opt out of Github's Copilot? 1063 comments in 6 discussions

• Immich - Self-hosted, FOSS implementation of Google Photos alternative. I am building this to help my family, and I hope it helps yours as well. 514 comments in 3 discussions

• I ported Quake 1 to the Apple Watch 288 comments in 2 discussions

• Richard Stallman's GNU C Language Intro and Reference, available in Markdown and PDF. 241 comments in 1 discussion

• A web UI for Stable Diffusion 198 comments in 4 discussions

• Monocraft: A programming font based on the typeface used in Minecraft 198 comments in 5 discussions

• I created a monospaced version of the Minecraft font for programmers, complete with unnecessary ligatures 186 comments in 1 discussion

• Blitsort: An in-place stable sorting algorithm faster than pdqsort 181 comments in 6 discussions

• Type annotations proposal has moved to stage 1. 173 comments in 2 discussions

• Python vs 100Gbps Network Speed. 149 comments in 5 discussions

Videos #

• How Transistors Work 88 comments in 2 discussions

• Rust on Rails (write code that never crashes) 85 comments in 1 discussion

• Interesting react interview problem 76 comments in 2 discussions

• Andrew Kelleys Livestream: Improving the User Experience for Unused Variables 52 comments in 1 discussion

• End-to-End Tutorial on Combining AWS Lambda, Docker, and Python 30 comments in 5 discussions

• Keynote: The Tragedy of C++, Acts One & Two - Sean Parent - CppNorth 2022 27 comments in 1 discussion

• EP0069 - OpenGL Instead of Windows GDI - Making a video game from scratch in C 20 comments in 1 discussion