Git User’s Surveys (2006, 2007 and 2008) did contain version about other SCMs… but this is of course biased. You can check how many people have given SCM in stack at Ohloh, open source software metric site, but I think you can check only current state. There are also results of Debian Popularity Contest (popcon); … Read more
There is an approach to designing systems with an idea of never deleting or mutating data called Event Sourcing. Basically, the idea is to store events (or facts) that change the system state, instead of snapshots of the state. The history of events can be replayed later on to produce a certain purpose-specific projection of … Read more
I ran into this breaking change when I used GCC. The compiler printed an error for code like this: void foo(const unsigned long long &i) { unsigned int a[2] = {i & 0xFFFFFFFF, i >> 32}; } In function void foo(const long long unsigned int&): error: narrowing conversion of (((long long unsigned int)i) & 4294967295ull) … Read more