Guido van Rossum Wants to Bring Type Annotations to Python
Guido van Rossum, best known as designer of the Python programming language, recently sent out a proposal on the python-ideas mailing list for adding type annotations to Python function declarations. The proposal aims at bringing to Python the benefits provided by static typing without changing Python’s dynamic typing nature and interpreter behaviour.
C++14 Is Here: Summary of New Features
C++14, the new C++ standard succeeding C++11, has been finally approved and is heading to ISO for publication this year. While improvements in C++14 are “deliberately tiny” compared to C++11, says C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup, they still “add significant convenience for users” and are a step on the route to make C++ “more novice friendly.”
Git 2.1 Released: What's New
Two-and-a-half months after Git 2.0, a new version of Git has been released. Though a minor update, the list of new features and improvements is large.
Debugging iOS File Corruption at Facebook
Facebook engineers Slobodan Predolac and Nicolas Spielberg have recently described how they “solved a long-term mobile debugging problem and reduced the crash rate … by more than 50 percent.” In the process, they show general useful techniques and a few Facebook tools that can help with large, rapidly evolving codebases.