Racket 6.5 Brings Improved Typed Racket, Faster Iteration, and More

Racket, a multi-paradigm programming language belonging to the Lisp/Scheme family, has reached version 6.5, writes Ryan Culpepper on Racket blog. The new version adds several new features, including improvements to typed/untyped code interaction, faster iteration on hash tables and sets, and more.

Chez Scheme Native Compiler now Open Source

R. Kent Dybvig, professor emeritus of Computer Science at Indiana University, now with Cisco, has recently open sourced version 9.4 of his formerly commercial Scheme compiler Chez Scheme.

Boost 1.61 Brings New Libraries for CPU/CPU Computation, Plugin Management, and More

Five months after the introduction of version 1.60, Boost hits version 1.61, adding several new libraries and updating many more.

Rustup Aims to Make Cross-Compiling Rust Much Easier

Rustup, introduced with Rust 1.8, is a toolchain manager for Rust that aims to make it much easier to cross-compile Rust code. Mozilla engineer Brian Anderson has recently shared more details about it.

GitLab Container Registry Integrates Docker Containers

GitLab has recently introduced its integrated Docker container registry, which aims to integrate the use of Docker container images within GitLab’s continuous integration tools, writes Mark Pundsack, head of product at GitLab.