DARPA Wants All C Converted To Rust

After more than two decades of grappling with memory safety issues in C and C++, the software engineering community has reached a consensus. It’s not enough to rely on bug-finding tools. The preferred approach is to use “safe” programming languages that can reject unsafe programs at compile time, thereby preventing the emergence of memory safety issues.

While messing around with some C code in godbolt Compiler Explorer, I kept noticing a particular funny case.

Introducing QOI — the Quite OK Image format. It losslessly compresses RGB and RGBA images to a similar size of PNG, while offering a 20x-50x speedup in compression and 3x-4x speedup in decompression. All single-threaded, no SIMD. It's also stupidly simple.

Compared to stb_image and stb_image_write QOI offers 20x-50x faster encoding, 3x-4x faster decoding and 20% better compression. It's also stupidly simple and fits in about 300 lines of C.

benchmark results here 

“A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C 

Finally, switch to wxWidgets 3.x, many improvements, new features, more stable, enhanced for HiDPI, the new Code::Blocks release 20.03 has arrived. Get it from the downloads section! A changelog summarises new features and fixes.

We provide binaries for the major platforms supported by Code::Blocks, with more to come in the next time. 

The three things I would tell people to learn are economics, writing and C programming, said the Stack Overflow (SO) co-founder and globally-recognised expert on software development

A MSBuild-integrated library/tool to expose entrypoints in .NET assemblies to the platform invocation system or short PInvoke. It allows you to build .NET libraries that can be called from any development platform that supports PInvoke, including C++, C, Rust, Delphi, Python and so on... 

Which programming language is used for making Windows 10?
Axel Rietschin, Kernel Engineer at Microsoft