A quick roundup of developer news since the last digest.
Languages & standards
- C++26 ballot disapproved: Robert Seacord reports that national-body balloting on C++26 has finished and the draft was disapproved, so expect another round of comment resolution before it ships. LinkedIn
- "Attention people who think UB is fine": A widely discussed essay argues that undefined behaviour in C and C++ is a real hazard rather than a theoretical one. habets.se
- 2026 Rails Community Survey results: The annual survey of Rails developers is out, covering tooling, versions and how people use the framework. railsdeveloper.com
- SIMD and Go: A deep dive into how SIMD vector instructions can be used from Go and what the language gives you for it. Internals for Interns
- The Goose programming language: A new small language project from aardappel, up for discussion on Hacker News. Goose
AI & infrastructure
- Google uses Gemini 4 Argon to optimise its Agent Development Kit: InfoQ reports that Google had a model tune the roughly 200K-line Python ADK codebase overnight, an example of agents doing large-scale refactoring. InfoQ
- Cerebras on serving trillion-parameter models: Cerebras explains how it deploys frontier-scale models on its wafer-scale hardware. Cerebras
- Will AI expose the internet's rickety infrastructure?: TechCrunch asks whether growing AI traffic and load will strain the internet's ageing plumbing. TechCrunch
Industry & craft
- Roku moves developer repositories from GitHub to GitLab: Roku announced the migration of its developer repos, which affects anyone with links or forks pointing at the old location. Roku
- "We should be more ambitious with the software we build": Dan Luu argues that engineers settle for too little, a post that drew heavy discussion on both Hacker News and Lobsters. Dan Luu
- Bbtree, a fast ordered map: A write-up of a new ordered map data structure that claims leading performance. Bbtree
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