David Cassel

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Contributing Reporter at The New Stack

Contributing Technology and Culture Reporter for @TheNewStack

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Kelsey Hightower on Nix vs. Docker: Is There a Different Way?

1 week ago | thenewstack.io | David Cassel

Kelsey Hightower took the stage last month in Pasadena, California, for the 22nd annual Southern California Linux Expo. His talk was on a new subject for the Kubernetes expert: Docker alternative Nix.
Python Software Foundation Honors Ewa Jodlowska's Service

1 week ago | thenewstack.io | David Cassel

“Knowing that my contributions have played a foundational role in the Python Software Foundation’s ongoing success is incredibly gratifying,” Ewa Jodlowska said this month.
JavaOne 2025: Talks, History, Community, and Scott McNealy

2 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | David Cassel

The JavaOne conference returned last month to Redwood Shores, California, to “celebrate 30 years of Java” and the release of Java 24. But it was historic in more ways than one…After holding the 2022 event in Las Vegas, Oracle‘s Java organization skipped the long-running conference altogether in 2023 and 2024, replacing it with Java sessions at Oracle’s CloudWorld conference. And there’s also a double-edged symbolism in the choice of Redwood Shores, the home of the company for more than 30 years.
Microsoft TypeScript Devs Explain Why They Chose Go Over Rust, C#

1 month ago | dev.to | David Cassel

After choosing Go for a port of TypeScript's compiler, Microsoft's developers soon found themselves explaining why on GitHub, Reddit, YouTube, and Hacker News. Anders Hejlsberg, creator of both TypeScript and C#, said Go was "the lowest-level language we can get to that gives us full, optimized, native-code support on all platforms, great control over data layout, the ability to have cyclic data structures and so forth.
Microsoft TypeScript Devs Explain Why They Chose Go Over Rust, C#

1 month ago | thenewstack.io | David Cassel

Last week Microsoft announced that TypeScript’s compiler is being ported to a new programming language — Go. And then a round of discussions kicked off online… Everyone’s fascinated by their high-stakes decision, and a few commenters couldn’t resist second-guessing the development team’s choice of a new programming language. Why Go? Why not Microsoft’s own C# or the hot language of the day, Rust?
'How to boost Python program performance with Zig'

1 month ago | dev.to | David Cassel

Two years ago Zig was "the new modern alternative to C." Now we've moved on to the "tutorials" phase of its ascent. "One way to speed up your Python programs is to write modules in the Zig language and use them in your Python code," writes Infoworld, promising to show you how to get started. Has anybody on Dev.to actually played around with Zig?
Memory-Safe C: TrapC's Pitch to the C ISO Working Group

1 month ago | thenewstack.io | David Cassel

Two weeks ago, the C programming language’s international standardization working group heard entrepreneur Robin Rowe‘s proposal for TrapC, a ground-breaking memory-safe extension of the C programming language. “After my presentation, I was told I should have asked for more time,” Rowe said in an email interview to TNS, “that 30 minutes wasn’t enough.
Bjarne Stroustrup on How He Sees C++ Evolving

1 month ago | thenewstack.io | David Cassel

“I wanted to educate the community at large, and members of WG21 in particular — on my views of C++’s intended direction of evolution,” Bjarne Stroustrup told TNS. The 74-year-old creator of C++ has spent 40 years of his life watching the growth of the language he designed back in 1985.
Neovim's Future Could Have AI and Brain-Computer Interfaces

1 month ago | thenewstack.io | David Cassel

Berlin-based Neovim maintainer Justin M. Keyes shared a strange phrase to open his traditional “State of Neovim” keynote at the annual Vim conference in Tokyo. (Neovim is a modern refactoring of the Vim text editor.) It was something he’d overheard a random sports fan saying that seemed to hold “some sort of symbolism”:“The Giants Have No Timeouts.”“He’s giving us a memo,” Keyes told his audience.
Curl's Daniel Stenberg on Securing 180,000 Lines of C Code

2 months ago | thenewstack.io | David Cassel

In his talk for this year’s annual open source conference FOSDEM, Curl creator Daniel Stenberg promised to show his audience “Things to do in order to sleep well while having your C code in 20 billion installations.”Stenberg believes 20 billion is actually a low estimate for the number of Curl installations in the world.