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Python creator Guido van Rossum wrote on the Python forum that Tim Peters, author of the Zen of Python (PEP 20), died on July 15; LWN called the news somewhat delayed. No cause is given.
Rust 1.100.0, announced November 12, 2026, stabilizes the never type and core parts of the Allocator API, and switches pre-2024 never type fallback from () to !.
TIOBE's November 2026 index puts Dart at No. 20 and calls it a first top-20 entry; InfoWorld and SD Times reported Dart at No. 17 in October 2014. Go passes Rust for No. 10.
C++26 was disapproved in its ISO Draft International Standard ballot, with contracts cited as the likely reason; WG21 meets in Búzios from 16 November as papers disagree on keeping or removing the feature.
Reporting on Bun, Copilot's runtime, OpenAI's Habitat, TypeScript ports and a Rails benchmark finds large claimed speedups, mostly self-reported, with disputed baselines and verification limits.
Kotlin 2.5.0-Beta2, a pre-release published October 21, introduces experimental companion blocks and full value classes, a .kar publication format for multiplatform libraries, and an error on compiler runs below JDK 17.
The first 1.14 alpha adds cancellation tokens for tasks, a Project.toml key that selects the syntax version, labeled blocks, and a new exact package resolver.
PHP's security release names the two CVSS 9.2 flaws as CVE-2026-109618 (OOM corruption) and CVE-2026-109619 (stale global state), fixed in four branches.
The PHP security team says a release due October 21 at 14:00 UTC fixes two critical vulnerabilities, both CVSS v4.0 9.2, and urges users to prepare to upgrade.
A Go blog post says Go 1.27's net/http now drains unread HTTP/1 response bodies for up to 50 ms or 256 KB on close, so connections can be reused.
Crystal 1.22.0's release notes and blog list Process.fork removed, exit on EPIPE writes to STDOUT or STDERR, aarch64-linux at Tier 1, and Kernel TLS on by default.
The Scala project announced 3.10.0 on 12 October 2026, removing legacy syntax, stabilizing SIP-67 and previewing three SIPs; its blog and GitHub notes differ on the strict-equality SIP.