Software Development recap for week 18/2025

From 28/4/2025 to 4/5/2025

Articles #

• The language brain matters more for programming than the math brain? (2020) 1382 comments in 4 discussions

• Migrating away from Rust 1260 comments in 5 discussions

• Tariff tracker, could someone develop it? 1194 comments in 5 discussions

• All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding 1186 comments in 2 discussions

• Redis is open source again -antirez 1075 comments in 5 discussions

• We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Rails 519 comments in 4 discussions

• Try switching to Kagi 469 comments in 2 discussions

• I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server 469 comments in 2 discussions

• Why did Windows 7, for a few months, log on slower if you have a solid color background? 395 comments in 2 discussions

• Programming languages should have a tree traversal primitive 375 comments in 5 discussions

• The enshittification of tech jobs 370 comments in 3 discussions

• The Day Anubis Saved Our Websites From a DDoS Attack 338 comments in 3 discussions

• The Tao of Programming 278 comments in 9 discussions

• Python sub-micro GPIO 270 comments in 2 discussions

• Thonny, Python IDE for Beginners 235 comments in 6 discussions

Releases #

• C++ DataFrame new release (3.5.0) is out on Conan and VCPKG 221 comments in 17 discussions

• Valgrind 3.25 released 62 comments in 10 discussions

• 🚀 Just released two Rust crates: `markdownify` and `rasteroid`! 27 comments in 2 discussions

• Release v0.8.0 · leptos-rs/leptos 24 comments in 1 discussion

• PEP 790 – Python 3.15 Release Schedule 18 comments in 1 discussion

• Released dom_smoothie 0.11.0: A Rust crate for extracting readable content from web pages 12 comments in 2 discussions

• [Release] fleeksoft-io 0.0.4 - Lightweight Kotlin Multiplatform IO library 9 comments in 1 discussion

• Pion WebRTC v4.1.0 released, brings stable full AV1 support, large DataChannels messages, and H.265 RTP payloader 4 comments in 1 discussion

• 8th ver 25.04 released

• Csgrs rust CAD kernel v0.17.0 released

Projects #

• LZAV 4.20: Improved compression ratio, speed. Fast In-Memory Data Compression Algorithm (inline C/C++) 480+MB/s compress, 2800+MB/s decompress, ratio% better than LZ4, Snappy, and Zstd@-1 197 comments in 7 discussions

• rouille - rust programming in french. 183 comments in 3 discussions

• You Don't Need JavaScript 159 comments in 6 discussions

• A library for setting up Ruby objects as test data 158 comments in 2 discussions

• EmailSleuth – Find and Verify Emails, Rust Based (SMTP, Chrome Drivers) 146 comments in 4 discussions

• Running Speech to Speech models on microcontrollers using Deno JS runtime 96 comments in 2 discussions

• Not much ML happens in Java... so I built my own framework (at 16) 96 comments in 2 discussions

• Open-lmake: A novel reliable build system with auto-dependency tracking 87 comments in 1 discussion

• Linux in Excel 72 comments in 2 discussions

• Feather: A web framework that skips Rust’s async boilerplate and just works 64 comments in 2 discussions

Videos #

• Any idea why go is not Massively overperforming java in this benchmark ? 195 comments in 1 discussion

• Why “Learn to Code” Failed 172 comments in 2 discussions

• Using std::cpp 2025 keynote: The Real Problem of C++ 88 comments in 1 discussion

• Your JWT + bcrypt Auth Isn’t As Secure As You Think 79 comments in 2 discussions

• Error handling in Zig vs Go 44 comments in 3 discussions

• Why Your Product's Probably Mostly Just Integration Tests (And That's Okay) 34 comments in 1 discussion

• How Netflix Uses Java - 2025 Edition 33 comments in 1 discussion