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TypeScript 7.0 Beta Arrives on Go-Based Foundation With 10x Speed Claim

Microsoft on Tuesday announced TypeScript 7.0 Beta, marking the public beta debut of the company's Go-based rework of the language's compiler and tooling stack. The release is pos ...
Visual Studio Magazine

TypeScript 6.0 Ships as Final JavaScript-Based Release, Clears Path for Go-Native 7.0

TypeScript 6.0 is the last release built on the JavaScript codebase. A new --stableTypeOrdering flag lets developers match TypeScript 7.0 behavior. TypeScript 7.0, written in Go, is "extremely close ...
GitHub

BasicBox: an x86 PC emulator written in Visual Basic 6

BasicBox is an x86 PC emulator written entirely in Visual Basic 6. Emulated CPU support is at a 486 baseline, but includes a few later opcodes such as CMOV and RDTSC. It can run Windows NT 4.0, Linux ...
TechSpot

Microsoft urges customers to prepare for VBScript deprecation in their Office VBA macros

The big picture: The Windows ecosystem has offered an unparalleled level of backward compatibility for decades. However, Microsoft is now working to remove as many legacy technologies as possible in ...
IEEE

Adaptive and Asymmetrical Blending for Bi-Directional Inter Prediction of Various Visual Contents in Video Coding

Abstract: Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard adopts the geometric partition mode (GPM) to enhance inter prediction by supporting non-rectangular partitions in a block. The GPM improves coding ...