Darktable 5.6.2, the latest maintenance release of the open-source RAW image editor, fixes OpenCL input gamma-corrected scaling on some devices, resolves incorrect masks in the Filmic RGB module, and …
Maki, a Rust-based coding agent, parses 15 languages into structural skeletons via tree-sitter, costing 59 tokens per turn while saving 224 tokens on reads, according to the project's documentation. M…
An essay comparing the Eiffel and Lua programming languages argues that despite Eiffel being a statically typed, compiled, pure object-oriented language built around Design by Contract and Lua being a…
Legion, an open-source Elixir library, was released as a runtime that lets AI agents write sandboxed Lua or Elixir code inside an application to compose registered tools and take actions such as findi…
A developer built a non-optimizing C compiler in Java targeting C23 with help from Anthropic's Claude, spending around $400 in AI credits over more than a week of on-and-off work. The project includes…
A developer announced Xepak, an open-source alternative to PostgREST built in Rust with Lua scripting support, focused on SQLite databases and aiming for an MVP release within a month. The project, di…
Developer Jncastilho has released LuaDB, a pure Lua embeddable SQL database designed for game save files, state tracking, and cloud sync. The zero-dependency system includes a B+Tree index engine, wri…
Generative AI is making legacy software rewrites economically viable by drastically reducing code generation costs, flipping the traditional cost-benefit analysis. AWS used AI to modernize 40 million …
A developer building TTT, a terminal text editor and IDE in Go, created a built-in scripted interaction system that allows AI agents to drive the editor like Playwright drives a browser. The system in…
Darktable released version 5.6.0 on June 21, 2026, adding an optional AI subsystem with object masking and neural restore modules, disabled by default. The release also includes performance improvemen…
The article presents a collection of modern coding tricks and ergonomic improvements for the C programming language, aimed at making it feel more contemporary and user-friendly in 2025. The author adv…
The article provides a factual overview of implementing a simple class in Lua, contrasting Lua's elegance with the complexity of other scripting environments like Python and JavaScript. It criticizes …