Collaborate Disseminate
Phoronix reports:
With the financial backing of Amazon Web Services, sudo and su are being rewritten in the Rust programming language in order to increase the memory safety for the widely relied upon software… to further enhance Linux/open-source se… Continue reading ‘sudo’ and ‘su’ Are Being Rewritten In Rust For Memory Safety
HackerNoon tested five AI bots on coding problems from Leetcode.com — GPT-4, GitHub Co-Pilot, Bard, Bing, and Claude+.
There’s some interesting commentary on the strengths and weaknesses of each one — and of course, the code that they ultimate… Continue reading AI Coding Competition Pits GPT-4 Against Bard, GitHub Co-Pilot, Bing, and Claude+
Tinkercad is like the hamburger helper of 3D design. You hate to admit you use it, and you know you should put in more effort, but — darn it — …read more Continue reading Parametric Design with Tinkercad
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: According to Google Trends, peak “Lean to Code” occurred in early 2019 when laid-off Buzzfeed and Huffpost journalists were taunted with the phrase on Twitter…
As Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently… Continue reading Is It Time to Stop Saying ‘Learn to Code’?
The Rust team released a new version Thursday — Rust 1.69.0 — boasting over over 3,000 new commits from over 500 contributors.
Phoronix highlights two new improvements:
In order to speed-up compilation speeds, Rust 1.69 and moving forwar… Continue reading New Version of Rust Speeds Compilation With Less Debugging Info By Default
“The Rust Foundation on Monday apologized for confusion caused by the organization’s proposed trademark policy changes,” reports the Register.
The Foundation now says their proposed policy “clearly needs improvement” and “there are many valid critiqu… Continue reading Rust Foundation Apologizes For Proposed Trademark Changes, Promises Improvement
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit tech consortium that manages various open source efforts, today announced the launch of the TLA+ Foundation to promote the adoption and development of the TLA+ programming language. AWS, Oracle and Microsoft are amon… Continue reading Linux Foundation Launches New Organization To Maintain TLA+
As ARM continues to make inroads in the personal computing space thanks to its more modern and streamlined instruction set architecture (ISA) and its reduced power demands especially compared to …read more Continue reading A RISC-V Supercluster for Very Low Cost
“Java would become easier for students to learn under a proposal to introduce flexible main methods and anonymous main classes to the language,” reports InfoWorld.
Details of the plan include enhancing the protocol by which Java programs are launche… Continue reading Would This OpenJDK Proposal Make Java Easier to Learn?
Amazon is making its AI-powered coding assistant CodeWhisperer free for individual developers, reports the Verge, “undercutting the $10 per month pricing of its Microsoft-made rival.”
Amazon launched CodeWhisperer as a preview last year, which develop… Continue reading Undercutting Microsoft, Amazon Offers Free Access to Its AI Coding Assistant ‘CodeWhisperer’