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Announced a few weeks back at CppNorth developer conference in Toronto, Carbon is a new programming language being primarily developed by Google developers. The goal of Carbon is to provide a successor language to C++, by offering a modern more developer friendly language but also offering bi-directional support for C++,
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In part of our ongoing alternative game development programming languages series, today we are looking at the ODIN programming language. ODIN is a low level data oriented programming language inspired by PASCAL and C with many features making it ideal for game development. The ODIN language is an open source
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Last week, Microsoft announced the release of Visual Studio 2022, as well as C# 10, F# 6 and .NET 6. The release marks the first time Visual Studio runs as a 64bit application and it’s available for download now. Details of the release from the Microsoft developer blog: In this
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GitHub have just launched an interesting new AI driven project, GitHub Copilot. GitHub Copilot is developed in collaboration between GitHub and OpenAI and is using artificial intelligence to support the developers. Instead of just being a better Intellisense, Copilot actually creates code dynamically using machine learning, based off comments or
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In our ongoing series of alternative game development capable programming languages, today we are checking out Nim. Nim is a cross platform, open source statically compiled programming language inspired by Pascal and Python with a splash of Haxe-like metaprogramming added on top. From the Nim homepage, Nim is described as:
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The Zig programming language is a relatively young open source general purpose programming language. Joining a growing list of languages in our Programming Language playlist, Zig can be thought of as “Zig is to C as Rust is to C++”. It’s a relatively simple programming language with modern language features
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There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Humble Learn You Some Code Bundle by No Starch Press. This bundle is a collection of e-books on a variety of programming topics and languages. There is a lot of overlap with the previous Learn To Code the
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Checked C is a research project from Microsoft research that attempts to make the C programming language safer for developers. Checked C is implemented as a Clang compiler for Windows and Linux. It provides a series of extensions to the C programming language that make it safer to use pointers
Today at Flutter Engage, Google have announced the release of Flutter 2. This Flutter release is a massive step forward as it makes Web support production ready, while offering support for developing Windows, Mac and Linux applications a beta feature. Flutter enables you to build mobile (and now web and
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There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Pocket Reference Guides by O’Reilly Bundle. It’s a collection of e-books on several of the most popular programming languages such as C++, C99, Java, C# and Python in addition to covering general IT topics like VIM, Sed, Powershell
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