In Defense of YAML :: Posit Open Source

kept by eddie jun 08

Posit releases py-yaml12, a Rust-backed Python library implementing YAML 1.2, arguing many criticisms of YAML stem from outdated PyYAML's 1.1 behavior rather than the modern spec.

Haskell for all: A sufficiently detailed spec is code
The article argues that specifications must become code-like to be precise, making agentic coding unreliable; even detailed specs like Symphony's fail to produce working implementations.
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Statistics that live in your SQL
the-stats-duck v0.6.0 adds OLS regression, bootstrap, expanded distributions, and a Vega-Lite plot grammar to DuckDB SQL.
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GitHub - posit-dev/ggsql: A SQL extension for declarative data visualisation based on the Grammar of Graphics.
ggsql is a SQL extension that enables declarative data visualization within SQL queries using the Grammar of Graphics, currently supporting DuckDB and SQLite.
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Fable one-shotted a Rust rewrite of the TerminalTextEffects Python library in 11M tokens. Startup time went from 87ms to 2ms and rendering s
Fable rewrote the TerminalTextEffects Python library in Rust using 11M tokens, reducing startup time from 87ms to 2ms and boosting rendering speed 9.6x with zero dependencies in a 3MB executable.
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What’s new in Python 3.15 — Python 3.15.0b2 documentation
Python 3.15 introduces PEP 810, which enables explicit lazy imports to defer module loading and improve startup performance.
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