Emscripten has gone from being a fantastic hack to a major influence in web programming. WebAssembly will be supported from day one!
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I sometimes feel a need to apologise when helping people learn git. It's tricky. The only consolation is that it's an really useful skill.
Jekyll 2.6.0 should be significantly faster:
Amazingly, believing willpower is finite reduces your willpower: http://t.co/PjTOuDnnjp though disbelief has limits: http://t.co/wg3kJgB3EE
Smalltalk is an amazingly small language. Even lisp seems relatively complex in comparison.
.@Atlassian do you provide checksums for your software downloads? I can't see any here:
I'm considering bleeding-edge magit (the 'next' branch). The (wonderful) maintainer is now asking for testers:
Writing multi-threaded code is remarkably cross-cutting. It's harder to factor out common functionality when you depend on specific locks.
It's a little sad that changing a comment can trigger a recompile. Compilers should be able to be smarter.
Lurking in #emacs on freenode is very worthwhile. Today I learnt that `C-h e` is a shortcut for accessing the *Messages* buffer.
The Rust compiler is getting faster over time: http://t.co/NBeU5YJb7k
Moose is an excellent Pharo platform to play with, but there's quite a learning curve with image-based programming languages.
Periodically, I look at projects that challenge the status quo in tech. Today: Hierarchical File Systems are Dead http://t.co/uX8lF4DWhw
Wonderful to see Swift will be open source! I wasn't interested in investing effort in a proprietary language, so this changes everything.
Nim treats foo_bar equivalently to fooBar. Accommodating to the point of being boring!
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