“Hello Devs”! Here are the top tech news summaries for you for 26th August
Rust version 1.72, Python 3.11.5, Bun v0.8.0, AI Code Generator from Meta, new Git version, and much more in today’s tech news summary.
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🤝 United by Programming
🦀 Announcing Stable Rust 1.72.0
Rust announced their latest stable version Rust 1.72.0 yesterday with the following updates. I am not a Rust Developer, so I will share the heading, you can always check the source for more information.
Rust reports potentially useful cfg-disabled items in errors, Const evaluation time is now unlimited, Uplifted lints from Clippy and buch of stabilized APIs.
Source: Announcing Rust 1.72.0
🐍 The 5th Maintenance of 3.11, Python 3.11.5 Released
Python team has released the fifth maintenance release of Python 3.11 as Python 3.11.5. This update contains many new features and optimizations.
The primary security update of gh-108310 has been fixed. The team included Fine-Grained Error Locations in Tracebacks. Introduced task groups to asyncio.
The Faster CPython Project is already yielding some exciting results. Python 3.11 is up to 10-60% faster than Python 3.10. On average, we measured a 1.22x speedup on the standard benchmark suite. See Faster CPython for details.
Source: Python
🏋️♂️ Work with Framework
☁️ Bun 0.8.0 is out, waiting for 1.0
No, it’s not a framework, nor is it a language. It is a Run time Env. But I didn’t create a category for that, so let’s keep it in this one for now.
un v0.8.0 adds debugger support, implements fetch streaming, and unblocks SvelteKit. ReadStream and WriteStream from node:tty are implemented, and .setRawMode() now works on process.stdin, unblocking several interactive CLI tools. Plus Node.js compatibility updates, bug fixes, and stability improvements.
FYI, Bun 1.0 is scheduled to be released on September 7th. You can register for the launch stream at https://bun.sh/1.0.
Source: Bun v0.8.0
🤖 AI OI
💻 Code Llama, AI Code Generator from Meta 🥽
Meta has announced the Code Llama an LLM for Coding. You can say it is similar to GitHub co-pilot.
Code Llama is an LLM capable of generating code, and natural language about code, from both code and natural language prompts. It is built on top of Llama 2, a recently open-source LLM model from the model. It will be free for research and commercial use, so no license hassle in your organization.
It is available in three models as described in the announcement post:
- Code Llama, the foundational code model;
- Codel Llama – Python specialized for Python;
- and Code Llama – Instruct, which is fine-tuned for understanding natural language instructions.
Source: Introducing Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding
🛠️ You Tool
🌲 git push main –tag v2.42
Yeah, it was a bad headline. It meant, Git has released Git 2.42. It has various features and bug fixes.
This version traverses objects faster with bitmaps. I highly recommend you to read the source below to understand this.
Exclude references by pattern in for-each-ref and Preserving precious objects from garbage collection are among many other changes in the latest version. Do check them out in the source below.
Source: Highlights from Git 2.42
Before You go…
See you around in two days
That’s it for this post. I know by the time I publish this there is always a new thing, Don’t worry will cover it in the next post.
Here are the categories and their descriptions.
“🤝 United by Programming” is all about programming language updates.
“🏋️♂️ Work with Framework” is a bucket filled with frameworks we use.
“🛠️ You Tool” is a group for IDEs, editors, or any tools devs use.
“🤖 AI OI“, well you know what this is about. And OI (o eye) rhymes nicely.
“☁️ Cloud and You” will be all about cloud news such as from AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
“😈 Server Maniac” wants to grab all the server content such as Kafka, Kubernetes, and more.
“💁♂️ On the other hand” will deal with content that doesn’t fit a particular genre.
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