Servo should see a first release in June!
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
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!
What is the difference between O0, O1, O2, O3, Os and Oz? When should you USSR each? A spec just landed in LLVM:
I've become a total convert to automatic saving when your editor loses focus. Let the machine work for you!
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/ )
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