Go Language Now Accepts Patches via GitHub Pull Requests

Google has started mirroring GitHub PRs for Go into Gerrit, Go’s upstream Git server, thus making it easier for developers to contribute to Go development.

Rust Gets Incremental Compiler and Standard Code Formatter

Rust 1.24 brings two new major features: incremental compilation and a standard code formatter, rustfmt.

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.