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PVS Studio author Valerii Filatov dives deep into the past twenty-six years of C# history: from the humble beginnings of version 1.0 to present-day C# 13.
"History of C#: versions, .NET, Unity, Blazor, and MAUI"
https://pvs-studio.com/en/blog/posts/csharp/1248/

History of C#: versions, .NET, Unity, Blazor, and MAUI
C# is a popular programming language leveraged to develop apps, web services, and games. Let′s take a peek at the tangled history of its evolution from version to version and explore the different...

We've been studying the cognitive science of *diagrams*, and have recently put out a new (very) lightweight programming language and tool for diagramming models in formal methods. Check it out here!
https://blog.brownplt.org/2025/06/09/copeanddrag.html

I maintain a heterogeneous MSP environment for backup which consists of a collection of sh scripts (they mostly run on FreeBSD) with (c) notes dating back to 2004, with 5 authors, 4 of whom are no longer my cow-orkers. As the unfortunate 5th, I am still doing tweaks to catch edge & corner cases >20y after the 1st author had the idea that rsync, shell, mt, & standard POSIX tools could be assembled into a decent free backup world.
Use Python. Or Go. Or even Perl.

"What Stroustrup wanted was apparently what a lot of people wanted: a language that provided OOP features, such as those offered by Smalltalk, but compiled into binaries that would execute as fast as an executable written in C.
The solution Stroustrup adopted was not to adopt the Smalltalk model, but instead to take inspiration from fellow Scandinavians and to bolt ideas borrowed from Simula into C."

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21323 has been replaced.
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A first look at ROS~2 applications written in asynchronous Rust
The increasing popularity of the Rust programming language in building robotic applications using the Robot Operating System (ROS~2) raises questions about its real-time execution capabilities, particularly when employing asynchronous programming. Existing real-time scheduling and response-time analysis techniques for ROS~2 focus on applications written in C++ and do not address the unique execution models and challenges presented by Rust's asynchronous programming paradigm. In this paper, we a…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.16517 has been replaced.
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Annotation-guided AoS-to-SoA conversions and GPU offloading with data views in C++
The C++ programming language provides classes and structs as fundamental modeling entities. Consequently, C++ code tends to favour array-of-structs (AoS) for encoding data sequences, even though structure-of-arrays (SoA) yields better performance for some calculations. We propose a C++ language extension based on attributes that allows developers to guide the compiler in selecting memory arrangements, i.e.~to select the optimal choice between AoS and SoA dynamically depending on both the execut…

When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think
back and give thanks that it wasn't developed under the advice of a worldwide
crowd.
-- Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011), creator of the C programming language and of
UNIX

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.01136 has been replaced.
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Descriptor: C++ Self-Admitted Technical Debt Dataset (CppSATD)
In software development, technical debt (TD) refers to suboptimal implementation choices made by the developers to meet urgent deadlines and limited resources, posing challenges for future maintenance. Self-Admitted Technical Debt (SATD) is a sub-type of TD, representing specific TD instances ``openly admitted'' by the developers and often expressed through source code comments. Previous research on SATD has focused predominantly on the Java programming language, revealing a significant gap in …

Startup CTO, writer and coach Dr. Milan Milanović shares a love letter to C# in 2025, and why its adherents believe it's such a good choice. He discusses, amongst other topics:
1. Language Features
2. The .NET Ecosystem
3. Tooling
4. Libraries and NuGet
5. Documentation
6. Community
7. Popularity
8. C# vs Other Languages, and
9. The Future of C#
He also shares a brief history of the language.
"Why C#?"

Why C#?
I might have been skeptical if someone had told me years ago that C# would become my programming language of choice for most projects.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06095 has been replaced.
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An extension of C++ with memory-centric specifications for HPC to reduce memory footprints and streamline MPI development
The C++ programming language and its cousins lean towards a memory-inefficient storage of structs: The compiler inserts helper bits such that individual instance variables fit to byte or cache boundaries, while it is not able to exploit knowledge about the range of integers, enums or bitsets. Furthermore, the language provides neither support for data exchange via MPI nor for arbitrary floating-point precisions. We propose C++ attributes through which developers can guide the compiler what memo…