Clasp 0.4 -- Lisp Over LLVM -- Generates Code 200x Faster

Clasp is a Common Lisp compiler based on LLVM that also provies seamless interoperation with C++ libraries.

Bulgarian ‘Future is Code’ school project ongoing

Bulgaria’s ‘Future is Code’ initiative - where volunteers visit schools to introduce students and teachers to software development - which started in April, is continuing at least until the end of this month. The project has already introduced a handful of schools to open source. The volunteer-led project is supported by Bulgaria’s Ministry of Education.

Why viral licensing is a ghost

According to an historical and widely shared distinction, present on Wikipedia and generally supported by too many free software advocates including some lawyers, “Strong copyleft” (sometimes renamed “viral licensing”) refers to licences governing a copyrighted work to the extent that their copyleft provisions can be efficiently imposed on all kinds of derived works, including linked works: the same copyleft licence becomes applicable to the combination. At the contrary, "Weak copyleft" would refer to licenses (that are generally used for the creation of software libraries) where not all derived works inherit the copyleft license, depending on the manner in which it was derived: copies and changes to the covered software itself become subject to the copyleft provisions of such a license, but not the software that links to it. This allows programs covered by any license (even proprietary) to be compiled and linked against copylefted libraries such as glibc (the GNU project's implementation of the C standard library), and then redistributed without any re-licensing required.

The Current State Of Pyston As An Open-Source, High Performance Python

A status update concerning the Dropbox-sponsored Pyston project was presented earlier this month.

A status update on the open-source Python high-performance JIT project was shared at a Pyston meet-up two weeks ago. For those interested, the Pyston blog shared today that this interesting video has now been uploaded.

Apple’s Swift iOS Programming Language Could Soon Be in Data Centers

Apple’s Swift programming language heads to the data centre

Server-Side Swift Unveiled: It's Perfect