Servo should see a first release in June! https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/mozilla.dev.servo/dcrNW6389g4
miniblog.
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 https://www.redox-os.org/news/this-week-in-redox-12/
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! https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Classes#Browser_compatibility
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!
What is the difference between O0, O1, O2, O3, Os and Oz? When should you USSR each? A spec just landed in LLVM: https://reviews.llvm.org/rL262196
I've become a total convert to automatic saving when your editor loses focus. Let the machine work for you! https://github.com/bbatsov/super-save
LLVM 3.8 is out! Get it while it's hot! https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-announce/2016-March/000067.html
I currently have 453 buffers open in Emacs, including 393 files! The UI scales really well -- no idea how to design a GUI for this scale.
Emacs command of the day: ff-find-other-file. Jump from foo.c to foo.h (or create the file) and vice versa.
Made my first commit to LLVM source! Woohoo! (Also, probably my most boring contribution so far: https://llvm.org/klaus/llvm/commit/5949d69774b2d203d7ff1ee2fde8565ecda0a10f/ )
Plankalkül, the world's first high-level proramming language, was created in 1945! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalk%C3%BCl
Pollen is a fascinating publishing tool: https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/ It's extensible (unlike markdown), innovative and has impressive examples.
Emacs package of the day: interaction-log https://melpa.org/#/interaction-log It's a nicer *Messages* and view-lossage combined!
My git workflow changes as I learn. I'm now comfortable squashing, so I now do lots of incremental commits and tidy up after.
Is there really such a thing as a lisp-2? Most lisps I've played with have been a lisp-1 or a lisp-n.
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