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Go 1.26 Refines Language Syntax
5+ hour, 43+ min ago (305+ words) Go 1.26 has been released with two significant refinements to the language'syntax and type system. The changes modify the built-in new function, and simplify the use of generic types.' Since its initial development by Google where it was designed as a…...
Deep C Dives: Undefined Behavior
1+ week, 1+ day ago (560+ words) Undefined behavior is a big and important subject but it really shouldn't be. Find out why" in this extract from my book,"Deep C Dives. "The fact is, undefined compiler behavior is never a good idea. Not for serious projects....
Ktor 3.4 Improves HTTP Client Support
3+ week, 4+ hour ago (240+ words) JetBrains has released Ktor 3.4. The new version adds OpenAPI generation,Ztsdsupport for the compression plugin, duplex streaming for the OkHttp client engine and structured concurrency integrations for the HTTP request lifecycle. Ktor is a free open-sourceKotlin framework for building asynchronous…...
Deep C Dives: All You Need Are Bits
4+ week, 1+ day ago (301+ words) If there is a single characteristic that sets C programmers apart, it is an understanding of bits. If you don't understand bits then you are a programmer in some other language pretending to be a C programmer. Harsh, but true....
Google Keeps Iron Grip On Play Store
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (241+ words) The judges may keep telling the walled gardeners that they have to free things up and throw a few doors open, but they in turn keep finding ways to keep their walls as high as they can get away with....
The Trick Of The Mind - The Goto Fixed!
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (254+ words) We all know about the problems with the goto instruction, but after we learned it was harmful what exactly did we do about it? This is an extract from my book Trick of the Mind,which explores what it is…...
The Go Programming Language (Addison-Wesley)
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (178+ words) Programming book reviews, programming tutorials,programming news, C#, Ruby, Python,C, C++, PHP, Visual Basic, Computer book reviews, computer history, programming history, joomla, theory, spreadsheets and more. In this book, Google's Go team member Alan A. A. Donovan and Brian Kernighan, co-author…...
Master The Pico WiFi: Client Sockets
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (427+ words) There are big advantages to using FreeRTOS with the Pico and one of them is being able to use sockets. This is an extract from our latest book on the Raspberry Pi Pico 2W in C. Appendix 1 Getting Started In C The…...
Prevent The Next Log4Shell - A Call To Action
5+ mon, 4+ day ago (624+ words) Open Source Economy is a new nonprofit organization formed by maintainers of several critical Java libraries to build a safer, stronger Java ecosystem and avert incidents such as Log4Shell. What makes this attempt different? The drill is well known and here…...
Deep C Dives: Value Structs
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (320+ words) The C struct is a value type and this is often forgotten or ignored? Find out in this extract from my latest book Deep C Dives. "Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California....