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Ruby 2.6.0 released with a new JIT compiler

Ruby 2.6.0 was released yesterday and brings a new JIT compiler. The new version also has the RubyVM::AbstractSyntaxTree module. The new JIT compiler in Ruby...

Italian researchers conduct an experiment to prove that quantum communication is possible on a...

Researchers from Italy have published a research paper showcasing that quantum communication is feasible between high-orbiting satellites and a station on the ground. This...
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Qt for Python 5.12 released with PySide2, Qt GUI and more

Last week, Qt introduced Qt for Python 5.12, an official set of Python bindings for Qt, used for simplifying the creation of innovative and...
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Introducing Netcap, a framework for secure and scalable network traffic analysis

Last week, a new traffic analysis framework, Netcap (NETwork CAPture) was released. It converts a stream of network packets into accessible type-safe structured data...
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The US to invest over $1B in quantum computing, President Trump signs a law

US President Donald Trump signed a bill called the National Quantum Initiative Act. This is a nation-wide quantum computing plan will establish goals for...

Eclipse 4.10.0 released with major improvements to colors, fonts preference page and more

Yesterday, the team at Eclipse release Eclipse 4.10.0, SDK project. Eclipse 4.10.0 is a part of Eclipse IDE 2018-12. This release features improved views,...
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Why moving from a monolithic architecture to microservices is so hard, Gitlab’s Jason Plum...

Last week, at the KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America 2018, Jason Plum, Sr. software engineer, distribution at GitLab spoke about GitLab, Omnibus, and the concept of...
Programming languages for 2019

8 programming languages to learn in 2019

Learning new skills takes time - that's why, before learning something, you need to know that what you're learning is going to be worthwhile....
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Netflix adopts Spring Boot as its core Java framework

This year, Netflix decided to make Spring Boot as their core Java framework, while leveraging the community’s contributions via Spring Cloud Netflix. The team at...
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Clojure 1.10 released with Prepl, improved error reporting and Java compatibility

Yesterday the team at Clojure released Clojure 1.10, a dynamic, general-purpose programming language. Clojure treats the code as data and has a Lisp macro...

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