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Alex Tardif: Graphics Programmer

I do not represent my employer or anyone other than myself, and I'm speaking from the perspective of a game developer - one who joined this industry to bring joy to other people as was done for me. I definitely see the technological value of AI, but the...

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A 65-year-old programming language called COBOL still quietly processes over $3 trillion in banking transactions every single day — and because the original engineers are rapidly retiring, banks are scrambling to pay younger developers fortunes just to...

A 65-year-old programming language called COBOL still quietly processes over $3 trillion in banking transactions every single day — and because the original engineers are rapidly retiring, banks are scrambling to pay younger developers fortunes just to kee...

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AV2 Specification

AV2 is the next-generation video coding specification from the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia). Building on the foundation of AV1, AV2 is engineered to provide superior compression efficiency, enabling high-quality video delivery at significantly lower...

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Devlog ⚡ Zig Programming Language

I’ve spent the past few weeks working on our new ELF linker which debuted in Zig 0.16.0. At the time of the 0.16.0 release, this linker implementation was in its fairly early stages, and only really supported linking Zig-only code without any external...

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A New Design for Pretty Printer Implementations in Rust

Since I studied Rustc’s pretty printer and implemented my own pretty printer library (which is used in the cgrammar crate, a crate for parsing and processing C23 syntax), I have been thinking about how to design a better pretty printer library, especially...

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NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code in a 1970s-era programming language that almost nobody on Earth fully understands anymore, and the handful of engineers who do are now in their 80s. - Make Tech Easier

NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code in a 1970s-era programming language that almost nobody on Earth fully understands anymore, and the handful of engineers who do are now in their 80s. Make Tech Easier

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