Is it a Post-Open Source world now that the mega-clouds are here? We share our thoughts on this renewed idea.
Plus, our reactions to Nvidia buying Arm, your feedback, and much more.
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- Steve T on Twitter — I do have a question about the latest episode; there was a lot of talk about code being safe.
- What is memory safety? — For the purposes of this post, we are generally considering whether a program execution is memory safe or not. From this notion, we deem a program to be memory safe if it all of its possible executions are memory safe, and a language to be memory safe if all possible programs in the language are memory safe.
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- Rust 1.46.0 Released
- Apple hiring Rust engineers for storage and networking groups
- Microsoft Senior rust engineer Jobs
- Epic says ‘Sign In with Apple’ will keep working for Fortnite after all — Yesterday, Epic said Apple was removing the ability to use ‘Sign In with Apple’ for Epic accounts
- Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on September 11
- Blazing 7 | Coder Radio 67 - Mike was Right — iOS 7 is landing and Mike and Chris discuss what’s in store for developers, and the real reason to put a 64bit CPU in a cell phone.
- Nvidia’s $40 billion Arm acquisition is about bringing AI down from the cloud — Nvidia’s $40 billion acquisition of Arm is a hugely significant deal for the tech world, with implications that will take years to unravel spanning many areas of the sector.
- Your Language Sucks, It Doesn’t Matter — The central thesis is that the actual programming language (syntax, semantics, paradigm) doesn’t really matter. What matters is characteristics of the runtime — roughly, what does memory of the running process look like?
- Post-Open Source — Imo, open source as a community endeavor is falling apart right before our eyes, and being replaced by open source as Big Corp entrenchment strategy.
I mean it’s been happening for a while, but seeing Mozilla sinking like this is just driving the point home for me.
FOSS is dead
- Microsoft's underwater data center resurfaces after two years — Their first conclusion is that the cylinder packed with servers had a lower failure rate than a conventional data centre.
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