Newsletter – Week 29, 2022

Launching 10 millions virtual threads with Loom – JEP Café #12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVoGE0GZZPI
Constant fun (const fn) with Rust – Rainer Stropek – Rust Linz June 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw8BFScm0K0
macros_rule the_world! – Alvin Ramskogler – Rust Linz, May 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyihLGPjPHw
How AWS is building the Rust SDK and how you can use it today – Zelda Hessler – Rust Linz June 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0XMjokwTIM
Building microservices with WebAssembly, Rust, and Spin – Radu Matei – Rust Linz May 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoRfr3Q2R8A
Authorization at Netflix Scale
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/authorization-scalability/
The beginning of data-centric AI with data programming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsZMIH5OViM
Meta AI’s new 200 Language Translation Model: NLLB200 Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G4NeG17Eis
Google LaMDA AI is Not Sentient – Here’s Why
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWlvS6y9Hoo
CS25 I Stanford Seminar – Transformers United: DL Models that have revolutionized NLP, CV, RL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P127jhj-8-Y
Ultimate Guide to Diffusion Models | ML Coding Series | Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7J6sSO1k50

Newsletter – Week 26, 2022

July 4, 2022 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Classfile API Draft, Spring Boot, GlassFish, Project Reactor, Micronaut
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/06/java-news-roundup-jun20-2022/
Announcing Rust 1.62.0
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/06/30/Rust-1.62.0.html
Highlights from Git 2.37
https://github.blog/2022-06-27-highlights-from-git-2-37/
TLS 1.2 Becoming the Minimum TLS Protocol Level on AWS
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/07/aws-tls-12/
Microsoft Limits Public Access to AI-Powered Facial Analysis Features
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/06/microsoft-azure-responsible-ai/

Articles

The new HTTP Client API – Sip of Java
https://inside.java/2022/06/27/sip057/
Introduction to Project Panama – Part 2: Variadic Functions
https://inside.java/2022/06/27/introduction-to-project-panama-part-2/
Mitigate the relocation degradations for cache locality improvement algorithm
https://inside.java/2022/07/01/mitigate-relocation-degradations/
Linus Torvalds is cautiously optimistic about bringing Rust into Linux kernel’s next release
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-open-source-summit-fireside-chat/
Markdown Blog in Rust with Tide
https://nyxtom.dev/2022/06/26/tide
An Unfortunate Experience with Rust
https://blog.polybdenum.com/2022/06/25/an-unfortunate-experience-with-rust.html
Write Better Commits, Build Better Projects
https://github.blog/2022-06-30-write-better-commits-build-better-projects/
Improve Git monorepo performance with a file system monitor
https://github.blog/2022-06-29-improve-git-monorepo-performance-with-a-file-system-monitor/
Learning by auditing Kubernetes manifests
https://blog.frankel.ch/learning-auditing-kubernetes-manifests/
Hard things in Computer Science
https://blog.frankel.ch/hard-things-computer-science/
We Asked GPT-3 to Write an Academic Paper about Itself—Then We Tried to Get It Published
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-asked-gpt-3-to-write-an-academic-paper-about-itself-then-we-tried-to-get-it-published/

Videos

What is OpenJDK? – Inside Java Newscast #28
https://inside.java/2022/06/30/insidejava-newscast-028/
Simple error handling in Rust
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6WUHcyjsfc
Making a Rust crate compile faster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMiqRM5ooNw
Making Sense of Application Security
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/app-security-skills/
Demis Hassabis: DeepMind – AI, Superintelligence & the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #299
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gfr50f6ZBvo

GitHub Trends – May 2022

July 1, 2022 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

Welcome to Java and Rust GitHub trends for May 2022. Let’s get started.

Java

Grasscutter

Total stars: 8002

Last month stars: 4077

Growth: 51%

https://github.com/Grasscutters/Grasscutter

About the project: a server software reimplementation for a certain anime game.

DSA-Bootcamp-Java

Total stars: 7385

Last month stars: 404

Growth: 5%

https://github.com/kunal-kushwaha/DSA-Bootcamp-Java

About the project: this repository consists of the code samples, assignments, and notes for the Java Data Structures & Algorithms bootcamp of Community Classroom.

lawnchair

Total stars: 5579

Last month stars: 266

Growth: 5%

https://github.com/LawnchairLauncher/lawnchair

About the project: Lawnchair is a free, open-source home app for Android.

unidbg

Total stars: 2074

Last month stars: 89

Growth: 4%

https://github.com/zhkl0228/unidbg

About the project: allows you to emulate an Android ARM32 and/or ARM64 native library, and an experimental iOS emulation. This is an educational project to learn more about the ELF/MachO file format and ARM assembly.

connectivity-samples

Total stars: 1046

Last month stars: 44

Growth: 4%

https://github.com/android/connectivity-samples

About the project: this repository contains a set of individual Android Studio projects to help you get started writing Connectivity apps in Android.

Rust

aptos-core

Total stars: 2263

Last month stars: 1116

Growth: 49%

https://github.com/aptos-labs/aptos-core

About the project: Aptos-core strives towards being the safest and most scalable layer one blockchain solution.

Replibyte

Total stars: 1565

Last month stars: 715

Growth: 46%

https://github.com/Qovery/Replibyte

About the project: Replibyte is a blazingly fast tool to seed your databases with your production data while keeping sensitive data safe.

RisingWave

Total stars: 2595

Last month stars: 1149

Growth: 44%

https://github.com/singularity-data/risingwave

About the project: RisingWave is a cloud-native streaming database that uses SQL as the interface language. It is designed to reduce the complexity and cost of building real-time applications. RisingWave consumes streaming data, performs continuous queries, and updates results dynamically. As a database system, RisingWave maintains results inside its own storage and allows users to access data efficiently.

Universal Android Debloater GUI

Total stars: 3539

Last month stars: 998

Growth: 28%

https://github.com/0x192/universal-android-debloater

About the project: cross-platform GUI written in Rust using ADB to debloat non-rooted android devices. Improve your privacy, the security and battery life of your device.

RustDesk

Total stars: 21162

Last month stars: 4670

Growth: 22%

https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk

About the project: open-source virtual/remote desktop infrastructure for everyone! The open-source TeamViewer alternative. Display and control your PC and Android devices.

Observations

across the Java projects in May there is only one highly growing project related to the anime game. Before, the same story was happening with Minecraft-related projects, but the “Grasscutter” project is something new.
If you find the “unidbg” project interesting for you, please remember this is an educational project which should be used only at your own risk.
“RisingWave” project looks pretty interesting as a connector between data streams and applications consuming them.
“RustDesk” has already more than 21k stars on GitHub and still growing pretty fast. Definitely worth trying if you are looking for TeamViewer alternative software.
Android-related applications are still in trend on Github. Mostly Java-based, but Rust has also come to the radar recently.

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