Chez Scheme Native Compiler now Open Source

R. Kent Dybvig, professor emeritus of Computer Science at Indiana University, now with Cisco, has recently open sourced version 9.4 of his formerly commercial Scheme compiler Chez Scheme.

Boost 1.61 Brings New Libraries for CPU/CPU Computation, Plugin Management, and More

Five months after the introduction of version 1.60, Boost hits version 1.61, adding several new libraries and updating many more.

Rustup Aims to Make Cross-Compiling Rust Much Easier

Rustup, introduced with Rust 1.8, is a toolchain manager for Rust that aims to make it much easier to cross-compile Rust code. Mozilla engineer Brian Anderson has recently shared more details about it.

GitLab Container Registry Integrates Docker Containers

GitLab has recently introduced its integrated Docker container registry, which aims to integrate the use of Docker container images within GitLab’s continuous integration tools, writes Mark Pundsack, head of product at GitLab.

Clojure.spec is a New Contract System for Clojure

Clojure has a new core library, clojure.spec, that aims to provide a standard and integrated system for the specification and testing of data and functions. Besides making it possible to automatically validate Clojure code, the new specification system can be used for a number of tasks such as generative testing, error reporting, and destructuring.