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nbdkit
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Why AWS Supports Valkey
This is correct, but doesn't quite explain why. It's because when you accept contributions from a variety of authors, without using a CLA, then your code base ends up with a patchwork of copyright, making relicensing practically impossible as you have to get buy-in from every author or else determine that author's contributions and remove/rewrite them.
GPL/LGPL are excellent licenses, but this patchwork of copyright can apply for any license you use. For a small project we wrote which was under BSD, we recently had to make a small (non-functional) change to the license, and we got buy-in from all the authors to do this which took quite a long time: https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/nbdkit/-/commit/952ffe0fc7685ea775...
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Disk write buffering and its interactions with write flushes
That second link is wrong, should be: https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/nbdkit/-/commit/a956e2e75d6c88eeef...
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The C++20 Naughty and Nice List for Game Devs
I think an exception might be made for a plain "C-like" struct that doesn't initialize members or contain anything except basic types. In the specific example[0] the code is actually surrounded by extern "C" { ... } so I suppose that the compiler "knows" this is a plain C struct?
[0] https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/nbdkit/-/blob/cd761c9bf770b23f678f...
- Static Analysis Tools for C
- jq 1.7 Released
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The OpenTF Manifesto
We relicensed[1] a project which had 10 contributors, and we got every single one of them to do an Acked-by (by email) which took some weeks. That was the advice from our lawyers. Can't imagine the impossible hassle of doing the same for something like Linux.
[1] https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/nbdkit/-/commit/952ffe0fc7685ea775...
- TIL: You Can Stop Updating Copyright Attribution Years (2021)
- Starting October 19, storage limit will be enforced on all Gitlab Free accounts
- nbdkit: High performance Linux block devices in userspace
swift
- Swift: Differentiable Programming Manifesto
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Embedded Swift on the Raspberry Pi Pico
Because of C/C++ interop, and integration with CMake, you can just add Swift to a Zephyr project and it pretty much Just Works. [The docs](https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/main/docs/EmbeddedSwift/...) should mostly apply to the Zephyr SDK as well.
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A Deep Dive Into Observation: A New Way to Boost SwiftUI Performance
Fortunately, the Observation framework is part of the Swift 5.9 standard library. We can learn more information by examining its source code.
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Swift was always going to be part of the OS
They do! See https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/main/docs/LibraryEvoluti...
You can also see an example of what a different high level language integration with Swift ABI looks like here: https://github.com/dotnet/designs/blob/main/proposed/swift-i...
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Differentiable Swift
So is differentiable Swift a package for Swift or is it part of the Swift standard library? The video says go to swift.org but I can't find any info about differentiable Swift on that site.
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Beyond Backpropagation - Higher Order, Forward and Reverse-mode Automatic Differentiation for Tensorken
Swift's Differentiable Programming Manifesto. Swift has a powerful differentiable programming component, integrated with the compiler.
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Kotlin Multiplatform for Android and iOS Apps
You can do the same thing the other way around - https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/main/docs/Android.md.
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This isn’t the way to speed up Rust compile times
Codable (along with other derived conformances like Equatable, Hashable, and RawRepresentable) is indeed built in to the compiler[0], but unlike Serde, it operates during type-checking on a fully-constructed AST (with access to type information), manipulating the AST to insert code. Because it operates at a later stage of compilation and at a much higher level (with access to type information), the work necessary is significantly less.
With ongoing work for Swift macros, it may eventually be possible to rip this code out of the compiler and rewrite it as a macro, though it would need to be a semantic macro[1] rather a syntactic one, which isn't currently possible in Swift[2].
[0] https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/main/lib/Sema/DerivedCon...
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How does Swift implement primitive types in its standard library?
`Int` is a regular struct with a single stored property of type `Builtin.Word` . But the latter is a magical compiler built-in. Source for integer types is generated from this template - https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/9da65ca0a15fdf341649c994b0a77ec3b71f2687/stdlib/public/core/IntegerTypes.swift.gyb
- Catalog of All SwiftUI Changes?
What are some alternatives?
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solidity - Solidity, the Smart Contract Programming Language
libnbd
cpp-lazy - C++11/14/17/20 library for lazy evaluation
qemu
Elixir - Elixir is a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications
transgui - 🧲 A feature rich cross platform Transmission BitTorrent client. Faster and has more functionality than the built-in web GUI.
tree-sitter - An incremental parsing system for programming tools
jackson-jq - jq for Jackson Java JSON Processor
hummingbird - Hummingbird compiles trained ML models into tensor computation for faster inference.
git-filter-repo - Quickly rewrite git repository history (filter-branch replacement)
lobster - The Lobster Programming Language