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Update 1.99.1: The update addresses these security issues. Update 1.99.2: The update addresses these issues. Update 1.99.3: The update addresses these issues. Downloads: Windows: x64 Arm64 | Mac: Universal Intel silicon | Linux: deb rpm tarball Arm snap Welcome to the March 2025 release of Visual Studio Code. There are many updates in this version that we hope you'll like, some of the key highligh
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Over the course of my Spring 2020 semester at Harvey Mudd College, I developed a self-hosting compiler entirely from scratch. This article walks through many interesting parts of the project. It’s laid out so you can just read from beginning to end, but if you’re more interested in a particular topic, feel free to jump there. Or, take a look at the project on GitHub. Table of contents What the pro
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Here is a list of common JavaScript interview questions with detailed answers to help you prepare for the interview as a JavaScript developer. JavaScript continues to be a cornerstone of web development, powering dynamic and interactive experiences across the web. As the language evolves, so does the complexity and scope of interview questions for JavaScript developers. Whether you’re a fresher de
I've been using Markdown for a long time, and have grown accustomed to it. It has various quirks, features, and oddities, but what doesn't. But recently I decided to take a look at Asciidoc, a Markdown "competetor". I found it a great little document toolchain, but it won't replace Markdown. Both Asciidoc and Markdown allow you to write text based content using a simplified markup syntax. Instead
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“Impractical”, “academic”, “niche”. These are a few of the reactions I get when someone discovers that my favourite programming language is Haskell, and not only my favourite in some sort of intellectually-masturbatory way, but favourite for building things, real things, mostly involving web servers. Hobby projects would be one thing, but it gets worse: I have actual teams at Converge working in H
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Hacker. Emacs fanatic. Lover of parentheses. Firebrand. Just another programmer with too many opinions. I’m not the best, but I’m pretty good. If someone had told me a few months ago I’d be playing with .NET again after a 15+ years hiatus I probably would have laughed at this.1 Early on in my career I played with .NET and Java, and even though .NET had done some things better than Java (as it had
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Here is a list of common Python interview questions with detailed answers to help you prepare for the interview as a Python developer. Python, with its versatile use cases and straightforward syntax, has seen its popularity growing continuously in software development, data science, artificial intelligence, and many other fields. As such, interviews for Python-related positions are designed not on
What does it mean for a BPF application to be portable? And why it's actually hard to achieve that without BPF Compile Once — Run Everywhere (CO-RE)? In this post we'll see what are the challenges of writing BPF programs that can work across multiple kernel versions and how BPF CO-RE is helping to address this problem. This post was originally posted on Facebook's BPF blog. If you are curious abou
Django for Startup Founders: A better software architecture for SaaS startups and consumer apps
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My birthday just passed, and to relax I wrote a parser combinator library. Over the last few years, I have worked quite a bit with Ningning Xie and Jeremy Yallop on parser combinators, which has led to a family of parser combinators which have optimal linear-time performance in theory, and which are many times faster than lex+yacc in practice. But these use advanced multistage programming techniqu
In Data Science, we primarily use Python as a programming language to perform operations on the available datasets. This article will discuss concepts and details for using Pythons to simplify data operations in data science. Pros and Cons of Python for Data OperationsEven though the pros outweigh the cons, it is crucial to look at both aspects. So, let’s have a look at the advantages and limitati
Update 1.89.1: The update addresses these issues. Downloads: Windows: x64 Arm64 | Mac: Universal Intel silicon | Linux: deb rpm tarball Arm snap Welcome to the April 2024 release of Visual Studio Code. There are many updates in this version that we hope you'll like, some of the key highlights include: Preview Markdown images & videos - Hover over a link to preview images & videos in Markdown. Enha
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