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Programming Leftovers

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 25, 2023

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Haskell Playground is live at play.haskell.org

=> ↺ Haskell Playground is live at play.haskell.org

it is with great pleasure that the Haskell.org Committee is announcing the availability of the Haskell Playground at https://play.haskell.org!
The playground is a work of love by @tomsmeding, now with support from Haskell.org. He deserves all your encouragement!

A breakdown of the triple-star pointer

=> ↺ A breakdown of the triple-star pointer

I few days ago I read “Lessons learnt while trying to modernize some C code” (via Lobsters) and one of the problems of C stated stood out to me: “Avoid constructs like char ***. I thought it was a joke, but people do pass around char *** and it’s insane—almost impossible to comprehend why do you need a pointer to a pointer to a pointer.” Yes, it happens, but come on! That doesn't happen often enough to complain about!

[paho-dev] Project code repository move

=> ↺ [paho-dev] Project code repository move

In keeping with our planned timeline we have begun selecting 15-20 projects per quarter that will have their code repositories moved in the following quarter, and as you may have guessed your project has been selected as part of next quarters moves.

Game of Trees 0.84 released

=> ↺ Game of Trees 0.84 released

Stefan Sperling had some particular changes of note on the FediVerse announcement excerpted (sans special emoji unique to bsd.network) here: [...]

ChatGPT Thinks Americans Are Excited About AI. Most Are Not.

=> ↺ ChatGPT Thinks Americans Are Excited About AI. Most Are Not.

Apart from committing the cardinal sin of failing to produce polling numbers until the sixth paragraph, ChatGPT’s take on how Americans see it and other chatbots was suspiciously positive. “A 2021 survey by the Pew Research Center found that 71% of Americans believe it is generally a good thing for society if robots and computers become more capable and sophisticated, while only 27% believe this would be a bad thing,” ChatGPT wrote. “This suggests that people are increasingly open to the idea of AI and see it as a potential source of innovation and progress.”

VxWorks for Qt 5.15.12 Released [Ed: Not only has Qt gone proprietary again; it seems to prioritise support for proprietary platforms; no wonder Lars left]

=> ↺ VxWorks for Qt 5.15.12 Released

The Qt Company is expanding the number of supported releases for VxWorks with the latest Qt 5.15.12 Long Term Support (LTS) version for commercial license holders. The release is a source code release made on top of the Qt 5.15.12 LTS Commercial release. Further Qt releases with VxWorks support are also being planned.

Shaping the Future of Digital Experience - UI Framework Foundations

=> ↺ Shaping the Future of Digital Experience - UI Framework Foundations

Dark Mode on Windows 11 with Qt 6.5 [Ed: After going proprietary Qt is also devoting time to Microsoft spyware]

=> ↺ Dark Mode on Windows 11 with Qt 6.5

MIDAX Leverages Qt’s Digital Advertising Platform for Sigma POS [Ed: Qt also promotes "telemetry" and ads in the GUI; not a positive direction]

=> ↺ MIDAX Leverages Qt’s Digital Advertising Platform for Sigma POS

Automated translation of Qt documentation

=> ↺ Automated translation of Qt documentation

Qt is known for its good documentation, and in the recent years the number of users that rely on the documentation has grown considerably. Some of these users also prefer using the documentation in a specific language, so they use the auto-translation tools for the purpose. Most of these tools translate everything on a page to the chosen language, unless they are told not to. For example, the following screenshot shows the Google translate output of the QString API reference in French language: [...]

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