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Join a VS Code Dev Days event near you to learn about AI-assisted development in VS Code. Update 1.67.1: The update addresses this security issue. Update 1.67.2: The update addresses these issues. Downloads: Windows: x64 Arm64 | Mac: Universal Intel silicon | Linux: deb rpm tarball Arm snap Welcome to the April 2022 release of Visual Studio Code. There are many updates in this version that we hope
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Version 1.108 is now available! Read about the new features and fixes from December. Release date: May 8, 2025 Update: Enable Next Edit Suggestions (NES) by default in VS Code Stable (more...). Update 1.100.1: The update addresses these security issues. Update 1.100.2: The update addresses these issues. Update 1.100.3: The update addresses these issues. Downloads: Windows: x64 Arm64 | Mac: Univers
Update 1.97.1: The update addresses these security issues. Update 1.97.2: The update addresses these issues. Downloads: Windows: x64 Arm64 | Mac: Universal Intel silicon | Linux: deb rpm tarball Arm snap Welcome to the January 2025 release of Visual Studio Code. There are many updates in this version that we hope you'll like, some of the key highlights include: Next Edit Suggestions (preview) - Co
SemVer in Rust: Tooling, Breakage, and Edge Cases — FOSDEM 2024 Last month, I gave a talk titled "SemVer in Rust: Breakage, Tooling, and Edge Cases" at the FOSDEM 2024 conference. The talk is a practical look at what semantic versioning (SemVer) buys us, why SemVer goes wrong in practice, and how the cargo-semver-checks linter can help prevent the damage caused by SemVer breakage. TL;DR: SemVer is
Join a VS Code Dev Days event near you to learn about AI-assisted development in VS Code. Update 1.66.1: The update addresses these issues. Update 1.66.2: The update addresses these security issues. Downloads: Windows: x64 Arm64 | Mac: Universal Intel silicon | Linux: deb rpm tarball Arm snap Welcome to the March 2022 release of Visual Studio Code. There are many updates in this version that we ho
My thoughts on writing a Minecraft server from scratch (in Bash) For the past year or so, I've been thinking about writing a Minecraft server in Bash as a thought excercise. I once tried that before with the Classic protocol (the one from 2009), but I quickly realized there wasn't really a way to properly parse binary data in bash. Take the following code sample: function a() { read -n 2 uwu echo
Update 1.86.2: The update addresses these issues. Update 1.86.1: The update addresses these issues. Downloads: Windows: x64 Arm64 | Mac: Universal Intel silicon | Linux: deb rpm tarball Arm snap Welcome to the January 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: Per-window zoom levels - Adjust the zoom leve
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Random musings on React, Redux, and more, by Redux maintainer Mark "acemarke" Erikson Detailed thoughts on how React has been developed over time, and explanations for common community confusion and concerns Introduction 🔗︎ Today, the state of React and its ecosystem is complicated and fractured, with a mixture of successes, skepticism, and contention. On the positive side: React is the most wide
Tier 4 Support § Support for these targets is entirely experimental. If this target is provided by LLVM, LLVM may have the target as an experimental target, which means that you need to use Zig-provided binaries for the target to be available, or build LLVM from source with special configure flags. zig targets will display the target if it is available. This target may be considered deprecated by
In Praise of dhh
In Praise of dhh November 8, 2025 | #tech #politics A reflection on Ruby’s past, present, and future. This is a long essay. I strongly recommend you read it from the beginning, but to help navigate it I have created this table of contents. Prologue The Past How I Learned To Love Ruby A Breath Of Fresh Air A Shared Worldview The Present Tragedy Strikes Recent Conflict In The Community Strength and
11th March 2025 Online discussions about using Large Language Models to help write code inevitably produce comments from developers who’s experiences have been disappointing. They often ask what they’re doing wrong—how come some people are reporting such great results when their own experiments have proved lacking? Using LLMs to write code is difficult and unintuitive. It takes significant effort
Reflections on 2 years of CPython’s JIT Compiler—The good, the bad, the ugly
Ken Jin's Blog Reflections on 2 years of CPython’s JIT Compiler: The good, the bad, the ugly 5 July 2025 This blog post includes my honest opinions on the CPython JIT. What I think we did well, what I think we could have done better. I’ll also do some brief qualititative analysis. I’ve been working on CPython’s JIT compiler since before the very start. I don’t know how long that is at this point …
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