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NewsMay 6

NetHack 5.0 Ships 11 Years After 3.6, Replacing Yacc and Lex With Lua and Rebasing the Roguelike on C99

The DevTeam released NetHack 5.0.0 on May 2, ending an 11-year wait since 3.6.0 and folding more than 3,100 fixes, a Lua-driven dungeon and quest pipeline, and full C99 source into the 39-year-old roguelike.

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NewsApr 3

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Neovim 0.12 Ships Built-In Plugin Manager, Overhauled LSP, and an Experimental UI Redesign in Its Largest Release in Years

Neovim 0.12.0, released March 29, adds a native plugin manager, inline LSP completions, a redesigned message interface, LuaJIT-powered performance gains, and built-in HTTP requests, setting the stage for a 1.0 release targeted in the next development cycle.

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