Go Language 1.10 Improves Toolchain and Performance

Although the latest release of Go does not include any major changes at the language level, it provides a number of improvements to the toolchain, the Go runtime, and the standard library.

Microsoft Opens Its Quantum Development Kit to macOS and Linux

After making its Quantum Development Kit available to developers last December, Microsoft is now announcing its first major update, including support for macOS and Linux, interoperability with Python, and more.

Apple Open Source SwiftNIO, a Low-Level Non-Blocking I/O Framework for Swift

At the recent try! Swift Conference in Tokyo, Apple announced the SwiftNIO project, a Netty-like non-blocking cross-platform I/O framework written in Swift.

Go 2017 Survey Shows Generics and Dependency Management the Most Desired Features

The latest Go survey confirms developers see Go lack of generics and dependency management as their two biggest issues with the language. This notwithstanding, this survey marks the first time more respondents use Go professionally than for personal projects.

Google Previews New "Bristlecone" Quantum Processor

Google research scientist Julian Kelly presented Google’s new quantum processor, dubbed Bristlecone, able to scale up to 72 qubits.