Open-Source Build and Test Tool Bazel Reaches 1.0
Derived from Google’s internal build tool Blaze, Bazel is a build and test tool that offers a human-readable definition language and is particularly aimed at large, multi-language, multi-repositories projects. Originally open-sourced in 2015, Bazel has now reached 1.0.
PARSEC Is a New Platform-Agnostic API for Secure Systems
Backed by Arm and Docker, Platform AbstRaction for SECurity aims to define a universal software standard to handle secure object storage and cryptography services. It focuses on modern system architectures made of containerized services and strives to make security technology easy to access. InfoQ has spoken with Justin Cormack, security lead at Docker and PARSEC maintainer, to learn more.
Rust Gets Zero-Cost Async/Await Support in Rust 1.39
After getting support for futures in version 1.36, Rust has finally stabilized async/.await in version 1.39. As Rust core team member Niko Matsakis explains, contrary to other languages, async/.await is a zero-cost abstraction in Rust.
Swift Numerics Aims to Make Swift Suitable for Numerical Computing
Swift Numerics is a new open-source library for Swift that attempts to fill a gap in Swift Standard Library, writes Apple’s engineer Steve Cannon. Currently, it includes two modules, for real and complex computational mathematics, but more are on the roadmap.