Category: Programming Languages

Deno 2.4 has just been released, and I must admit it has pleasantly surprised me. Not only because of the number of new features, but because of one in particular that many of us thought would never return: deno bundle is back. And this time, it’s here to stay.

This release comes packed with improvements ranging from importing text files directly to stable observability with OpenTelemetry. Let’s explore what this release brings us.

The first alpha version of PHP 8.5 has just been released, and I must confess it has me more excited than recent versions. It’s not just for the technical improvements (which are many), but because PHP 8.5 introduces features that will change the way we write code.

And when I say “change,” I mean the kind of changes that, once you use them, you can’t go back. Like when the null coalescing operator (??) appeared in PHP 7, or arrow functions in PHP 7.4.

At Sevilla Developers Conf 2 I commented on some examples of who uses Go and for what.

Among others, these seemed interesting to me, and I’ll create a somewhat larger list that will serve us to see real use cases and success stories when choosing Go for certain solutions.

I’ve always liked to see and try different technologies, and within these, of course, programming languages.

An example of this was the intensive use I gave at the time, at Arrakis, to Rebol, an interpreted cross-platform language, with everything you could need to perform great data cleaning scripts, in a “strange” syntax, but beautiful in its approach.

The case of Go was a bit different, because just like what happened to me with Angular, at the time (several years ago) I tried to give it a chance, but all the information and examples I found were “very small” blocks of code, I didn’t see in that (at a bird’s eye view) that it was finished, it seemed like a more academic/conceptual language than something for real use.