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Your opinions on Bend ( github.com )

New language promises to reduce compilation times by using all threads and gpu cores available on your machine. What's your opinions on it so far?

As a C beginner, should I be bothered by not being able to understand this? ( queue.acm.org )

Most of the stuff went over my head, Why should I care that C is no longer low-level? What exactly is considered close-to-metal in today's time, apart from binary and assembly?

C Is Not a Low-level Language. Your computer is not a fast PDP-11. ( queue.acm.org )

Why We Can't Have Nice Software ( andrewkelley.me )

Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects ( www.theregister.com )

Computer Scientists Invent an Efficient New Way to Count ( www.quantamagazine.org )

Traditionally, algorithms for counting distinct items in a stream of data would store all the items. A new algorithm, called CVM, uses randomization to estimate the number of distinct items with minimal memory usage. The trick is to keep track of items by recording them and then randomly deleting some. The probability of an item...

Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85 ( arstechnica.com )

Open-source project ZLUDA lets CUDA apps run on AMD GPUs ( www.cgchannel.com )

Andrzej Janik has released ZLUDA 3, a new version of his open-source project that enables GPU-based applications designed for NVIDIA GPUs to run on other manufacturers’ hardware. The wrapper technology is designed to enable existing applications to run on new hardware unmodified, without the need for any work on their...

Encoding tic-tac-toe in 15 bits ( cbarrick.dev )

Variables in GNU Make: Simple and Recursive ( www.bahmanm.com )

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/4908824...

Software Architecture is Overrated, Clear and Simple Design is Underrated ( blog.pragmaticengineer.com )

Jotai takes an atomic approach to global React state management ( github.com )

Lossy CSS compression for fun and loss (or profit) ( blog.danieljanus.pl )

Conway's Game of Life using ffmpeg ( trac.ffmpeg.org )

ffplay -f lavfi -i life=s=400x300:mold=10:r=30:ratio=0.1:death_color=#C83232:life_color=#00ff00,scale=1200:800:flags=32...

My fellow software engineer, It's the year 2024... ( mastodon.social )

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17978313...

The first 10k games at bgammon.org, an open source online backgammon service ( bgammon.org )

Open Source 'Eclipse Theia IDE' Exits Beta to Challenge Visual Studio Code ( visualstudiomagazine.com )

A video game in a font ( www.coderelay.io )

How to split JavaScript strings into sentences, words or graphemes with "Intl.Segmenter" ( www.stefanjudis.com )

Third edition of Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ by Bjarne Stroustrup released ( www.stroustrup.com )

"Programming: Principles and Practice using C++ (3rd Edition)", aka PPP3, is an introduction to programming for people who have never programmed before. It will also be useful for people who have programmed a bit and want to improve their style and technique - or simply learn modern C++. It is designed for classroom use, but...

Embedding the Servo Web Engine in Qt ( www.kdab.com )

While the task of writing a brand new standard-compliant browser engine is infamous as being almost unachievable nowadays (and certainly so with Chromium coming in at 31 million lines of code), the Rust ecosystem has been brewing up a new web rendering engine called Servo. Initially created by Mozilla in 2012, Servo is still...

AMD Makes HIP Ray-Tracing Open-Source ( www.phoronix.com )

AMD's HIP Ray-Tracing library "HIP RT" has been one of the few projects under the GPUOpen umbrella that starts off as closed-source software but then is eventually open-sourced... That happened now with the HIP ray-tracing code becoming publicly available.

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