The C standards committee has announced that they're working on a new version of the standard! https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2021.htm (named 'C2x')
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It's now the case that "software developer" is most common profession in four states!
It's becoming sufficiently difficult to get a CVE ID assigned that security researchers are discussing alternatives:
You know software developers are serious about portability when their software even runs on Gnu Hurd!
CMake is increasingly pulling ahead of autotools in feature set: https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2015-February/041394.html (interesting post on LLVM reasons for switching)
The goals of Redox: https://www.redox-os.org/book/book/introduction/what_is_redox.html (Unixish and Linux compatible, but a microkernel with userland utilities all in Rust!)
A Tale of Five Editors https://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch13s02.html (great overview of the different designs between ed, vi, sam, wily and emacs)
Impact of syntax coloring on program comprehension https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~as2006/files/sarkar_2015_syntax_colouring.pdf "syntax highlighting significantly improves task completion time"
I'm blown away by the thriving operating system communities that have grown up around Rust. E.g. Redox
Nifty Emacs pkg: company-statistics https://github.com/company-mode/company-statistics Records which completions you use and sorts those first!
Edward C++Hands https://bartoszmilewski.com/2013/09/19/edward-chands/ (interesting criticism of the C++ parallelism standards and the programs they produce)
There are serious proposals for adding type inference `var x = new List();` to Java! https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/286
JavaScript classes have landed in Firefox 45!
Accidentally defined a keyboard macro in Emacs? There's a macro ring, so you can get your previous macro back with kmacro-delete-ring-head!
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