OCaml 5 Brings Support for Concurrency and Shared Memory Parallelism
Several years in the making, OCaml 5 introduces runtime support for shared memory parallelism and effect handlers, which are the basis for exception handling, concurrency, async I/O, and more.
GitHub Introduces go-gh to Simplify the Creation of GitHub CLI Extensions
Introduced in GitHub CLI 2.0, extensions allow developers to add new features by writing small Go programs. To make it easier to create extensions, GitHub is now releasing a new library, go-gh. Additionally, the latest version of GitHub CLI introduces two new commands to search and browse the catalog of available extensions.
Chromium to Allow the Use of Third-Party Rust Libraries to Improve Safety and Security
The Chromium Project is going to add a Rust toolchain to its build system to enable the integration of third-party libraries written in Rust with the aim to improve security, safety, and speed up development.
HC-tree is a High-Concurrency Backend for SQLite Supporting Replication
HC-tree is a project aimed to build a new backend for SQLite specifically optimized for high-concurrency and lead-follower style replication. While still experimental, HC-tree can be used as an SQLite drop-in replacement, albeit with limitations.