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2 days ago | i-programmer.info | Sue Gee

Written by Sue Gee    Pure Virtual C++ is Micorosft's free, one-day, virtual conference  for the whole C++ community. This year, it is running on April 30th. Here are details of the five live sessions, each lasting around half and hour. Welcome to v1.0 of the meta::[[verse]]! with Inbal LeviThis talk will introduce what is (likely) the final version of the "Reflection" feature targeting C++26.

6 days ago | i-programmer.info | Sue Gee

It is 20 years since Linus Torvalds wrote Git, regarding it as a tool necessary for building the Linux Kernel. Looking back says that it was never a big thing for him. Git is a distributed version control system which keeps track of every change made to code over time. This lets you, or a team, go back to previous versions of a project and see exactly who made what changes and when. It also enables you to compare different versions of your files and revert mistakes.

1 week ago | i-programmer.info | Kay Ewbank

Written by Kay Ewbank    Kafka 4.0 has been released, with major changes. This is the first version to operate entirely in KRaft mode by default. It also adds a new consumer group protocol designed to dramatically improve rebalance performance, and includes early access to Queues for Kafka, enabling Kafka to support traditional queue semantics directly.

1 week ago | i-programmer.info | Mike James

April 14th was World Quantum day and the most noticeable thing that happened was that Google presented us with a nice doodle. Should you get excited? I understand the math of quantum physics and have taken university courses in quantum computation and I can tell you now I am deeply unimpressed by the prospect of quantum computing. This is not a moment like the emergence of ChatGPT, even if it is important.

1 week ago | i-programmer.info | Sue Gee

Written by Sue Gee    Programmers have embraced AI to aid their productivity. But how should they adjust to really benefit? What skills are required for a successful relationship with AI? According to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodel in the future code will be entirely AI-generated and he has predicted that AI could generate up to 90% of all code within six months.