Rust 1.2 Brings Faster Compilation, Parallel Code Generation, and More

The Rust Core Team has announced the availability of the Rust 1.2 stable and 1.3 beta releases. Rust 1.2 focuses mainly on tooling, improving compiler performance and introducing parallel code generation. Furthermore, it introduces support for the MSVC toolchain.

Frege: a Haskell-like Language for the JVM

Frege, named after the German mathematician Gottlob Frege, is a purely functional, strongly typed language for the JVM that is so similar to Haskell that “most idiomatic Haskell code will run unmodified or with only minimal, obvious adaptions”. InfoQ has spoken with Ingo Wechsung, Frege’s creator.

Facebook’s Parse Open-sources its SDK for Android and iOS

Parse, Facebook-owned provider of a successful Mobile Backend as a service, has open-sourced its SDK for the iOS/OS X and Android platforms.

Digium Open-sources Respoke SDKs for WebRTC and Messaging on iOS and Android

Digium, maker of WebRTC platform Respoke, has introduced open-source SDKs for iOS and Android that aim at making it easier to add real-time audio and video communication support to mobile apps. Furthermore, the SDK includes support for instant messaging and uses push notification in order to work even when running offline or in the background.

Using Clojure to Build Native Android Apps

Clojure development on the Android platform has been progressing remarkably in the last few years, allowing developers to use it in fully fledged apps such as SwiftKey’s Clarity Keyboard. Here we will review the current status of tools that support Clojure on the Android platform.