Behind games and entertainment, training and education and branded experience were most common use cases for augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality. As Facebook explains, the ...

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Functional Programming has been around for quit e some time. Its characteristic features include high order functions, lazy evaluation, side-effect freeness, etc. These characteristics are ...

The basic programming model of languages, like Java, is thread based and while multithreaded applications aren’t terribly hard to write, there are challenges to writing them correctly. What’s ...

I just recently finished reading Introduction to Concurrency in Programming Languages, one of the entries in CRC’s incredibly active Computational Science Series (“Incredibly active?” Yes: the series ...

Session types have emerged as a rigorous formalism for specifying and verifying communication protocols in concurrent systems. They provide a structured approach to ensuring that interactions among ...

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Memory models offer the formal frameworks that define how operations on memory are executed in environments with concurrent processes. By establishing rules for the ordering and visibility of memory ...

Tim Bray, co-inventor of XML and now with Google, hails languages such as Erlang, Clojure as developers deal with multicore chips Rather than using threads, functional programming presents the ...

Five years after Swift 5, Apple's open-source programming language has been released in version 6.0. The release primarily completes the preparatory work of the last point releases in the area of ...