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While volk always tracks the latest Vulkan version (I've automated myself), I occasionally tag new numbered versions and today is such a day! New release 1.4.350 features a number of small improvements for various edge cases as long as all the new extensions you may want. github.com/zeux/volk/re...

Release 1.4.350 · zeux/volk

A periodic tagged release of volk, matching Vulkan 1.4.350. New extensions: VK_EXT_descriptor_heap 🎉 VK_ARM_data_graph, VK_ARM_data_graph_optical_flow, VK_ARM_performance_counters_by_region, VK_AR...

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🎤 PlanetNix 2026 speaker highlight Sam Fu (Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic) is joining PlanetNix with a deep-dive war story: Nix Builds 🤝 K8s Dev Environments: A Love Hate Relationship in 5 Acts See you in Pasadena? 👀 planetnix.com

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We're pleased to see Zink enabling the first Gallium-free Mesa driver—an important milestone for the graphics and RISC-V ecosystem.

We’ll be out in force at @fosdem.org '26 at the end of this week, with eight talks on a wide variety of topics—the latest on @servo.org, GStreamer work, graphics stacks, MathML interop, WebAssembly runtimes, handing out Servo stickers, and more! www.igalia.com/2026/01/26/I...

Igalia at FOSDEM ’26 | Igalia

Igalia is an open source consultancy specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and cl...

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> Visual Studio 2026 and later versions don't support C++AMP, the ARM32 toolchain, and /DEBUG:FASTLINK I wonder where people going from old AMP codes

Your favorite C library, now with Swift superpowers. 🦸 New post: how to transform C APIs into idiomatic Swift, with enums, automatic reference counting, and argument-labeled methods. Best of all: no header changes needed, thanks to API notes! 🥳 www.swift.org/blog/improvi...

Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift

There are many interesting, useful, and fun C libraries in the software ecosystem. While one could go and rewrite these libraries in Swift, usually there is no need, because Swift provides direct inte...

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