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The Top 10 Data Interchange Or Data Exchange Format Used Today

The top 10 data interchange or data exchange formats used today vary depending on the specific domain and use case. However, here are ten widely used formats across different industries: Please note that the popularity and usage of these formats may vary depending on specific requirements and industry practices.

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Software Engineering

C Vs. Go: Comparing Programming Languages

Use a simple counting program to compare the venerable C language with modern Go. Go is a modern programming language that derives much of its history from the C programming language. As such, Go is likely to feel familiar to anyone who writes programs in C. Go makes it easy to write new programs while feeling familiar to C programmers but avoiding many of the common pitfalls of the C programming language. This article compares a simple C and Go program that adds the numbers from one to ten. Because this program uses only small values, the numbers won’t grow to be…

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My First Pull Request At Age 14

Age is not a barrier for contributing to open source. My name is Neil Naveen, and I’m a 14-year-old middle schooler who’s been coding for seven years. I have also been coding in Golang for two years. Coding isn’t my only passion, though. I’ve been practicing Jiu-Jitsu for four years and have competed in multiple competitions. I’m passionate about coding and Jiu-Jitsu, as they teach me important life lessons. Codecombat I started coding on Codecombat, which taught me many fundamental coding skills. One of the most exciting moments in my coding journey was when I ranked 16th out of around 50,000 players in…

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Pythonic Techniques For Handling Sequences

Sequences and Collections are an integral part of any programming language. Python particularly handles them uniformly, i.e. any type of sequence from Strings and XML elements to arrays, lists, and Tuples are handled in a uniform way. Understanding the variety of these sequences will spare us the reinvention of the wheel as the existing common sequence interface allows us to leverage and support any new sequence types. The built-in sequences and how to group them There are 2 types of sequences: A container sequence holds references to the objects it contains, which may be of any type, while a flat sequence stores…

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Software Engineering

Eclipse Java Downloads Skyrocket

Eclipse Foundation reports more than 12 million downloads of its Temurin Java SE binaries per month over the past three months. Move over, Oracle Java. Downloads of the Eclipse Foundation’s Temurin Java SE binaries have more than doubled year over year, to more than 12 million downloads per month, Eclipse said on March 14. Eclipse delivered more than 12.3 million downloads of its standard Java binaries in February, the foundation reported. This volume of downloads actually has been going on for three or four months, Eclipse Executive Director Mike Milinkovich said. Under the jurisdiction of the Eclipse Adoptium working group, Temurin has become…

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How To Use Bash

Ever been daunted by writing Bash scripts or using the terminal? Many developers prefer to use the graphical user interface (GUI) to navigate their files and applications on their computers. With Bash, developers on macOS and Linux operating systems (OS) can do lots of computer processes right from the terminal without ever having to use their mouse or the keyboard for interaction. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to write simple Bash scripts and how you can 10X your productivity efficiently. What is Bash? Bash, also known as Bourne Again Shell, is an interactive shell or command line interpreter popular…

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Software Engineering

Ballerina: A Programming Language For The Cloud

Ballerina was designed to simplify the development of distributed microservices by making it easier to integrate APIs. For C, C++, C#, and Java programmers, much will feel familiar. Ballerina, which is developed and supported by WSO2, is billed as “a statically typed, open-source, cloud-native programming language.” What is a cloud-native programming language? In the case of Ballerina, it is one that supports networking and common internet data structures and that includes interfaces to a large number of databases and internet services. Ballerina was designed to simplify the development of distributed microservices by making it easier to integrate APIs, and to…

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Python 3.12.0 Alpha 6 Released

Release Date: March 8, 2023 This is an early developer preview of Python 3.12. Major new features of the 3.12 series, compared to 3.11 Python 3.12 is still in development. This release, 3.12.0a6 is the sixth of seven planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current state of new features and bug fixes and to test the release process. During the alpha phase, features may be added up until the start of the beta phase (2023-05-08) and, if necessary, may be modified or deleted up until the release candidate phase (2023-07-31). Please keep…

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Learn Expect By Writing And Automating A Simple Game

Code a “guess the number” game in Expect. Then, learn the real power of Expect with a separate script to automate playing the game. While trying to automate my workflow, I hit upon a configuration utility that defied meaningful automation. It was a Java process that didn’t support a silent installer, or support stdin, and had an inconsistent set of prompts. Ansible’s expect module was inadequate for this task. But I found that the expect command was just the tool for the job. My journey to learn Expect meant learning a bit of Tcl. Now that I have the background to create simple programs, I can better…

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Programming

Go 1.20 Is Released!

Today the Go team is thrilled to release Go 1.20, which you can get by visiting the download page. Go 1.20 benefited from an extended development phase, made possible by earlier broad testing and improved overall stability of the code base. We’re particularly excited to launch a preview of profile-guided optimization (PGO), which enables the compiler to perform application- and workload-specific optimizations based on run-time profile information. Providing a profile to go build enables the compiler to speed up typical applications by around 3–4%, and we expect future releases to benefit even more from PGO. Since this is a preview release of PGO support, we…

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