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.

Go 1.20 Improves Compiler Performance and Extends Coverage Support

The latest release of the Go language, Go 1.20, improves compiler performance, bringing it back in line with Go 1.17. Additionally, the language now supports conversion from slice to arrays and revises struct comparison.