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3 legitimately useful Linux apps to try this weekend (January 2 - 4)

The eza command line program, written in Rust, gives you quality of life features that ls makes you live without. They ...

The most durable tech is boring, old, and everywhere

Opinion: From COBOL and C to Linux and SQL, the unglamorous software that keeps the world running refuses to disappear ...
Hackaday

Linux Fu: Compose Yourself!

Our computers can display an astonishing range of symbols. Unicode alone defines more than 150,000 characters, covering ...

The great programming transformation: How AI and Rust are quietly dethroning C in Linux - and Windows

Maintainers and developers are now using AI to help build Linux. Simultaneously, Rust has graduated to being a co-equal language with C for mainstream Linux development. However, the programming world ...

Linux will be unstoppable in 2026 - but one open-source legend may not survive

Linux and open source are also on track to become more secure in 2026, as the ecosystem simultaneously hardens the kernel, ...
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Why printf is superior to echo in Linux scripts

The printf command offers well-defined behavior following the POSIX standard, which means it works the same way across shells ...

What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows

Unix died because of endless incompatibilities between versions. Linux succeeded on servers and everywhere else because it ...
GitHub

A working example of multi targets compilation for Rust using Github Actions.

Windows and MacOSX do not actually use cross-compilation and just launch jobs on Windows and MacOSX runners respectively as this is way less painful than trying to compile from Linux. All Linux ...
Microsoft

FlashFill++: Scaling Programming by Example by Cutting to the Chase

Programming-by-Examples (PBE) involves synthesizing an intended program from a small set of user-provided input-output examples. A key PBE strategy has been to restrict the search to a carefully ...