We lost a titan of programming languages, programming methodology, software engineering and hardware design. Niklaus Wirth passed away on the first of January. We mourn a pioneer, colleague, mentor and friend.
Today at WWDC we introduced a new static linker. It is a ground-up rewrite that’s up to 5x faster than ld64. The new linker is written with multicore in mind, and it’s the first production ready parallel linker officially supported for iOS development. (1/n)
Have you ever wondered what famous historical figures actually looked like today in real life? An artist named Hidreley Diao used AI to create photo-realistic images, allowing us to see what these people would look like if they were alive in modern times.
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Matt Baker creates helpful visual guides that condense thousands of years of history. His poster Evolution of the Alphabet looks at nearly 3,800 years of the alphabet’s evolution, tracing it from Egyptian hieroglyphs to the present forms we use today https://t.co/1f0pavEhKh