GNU Emacs 31.1 is out today as the newest feature release to this popular text editor. Notable with GNU Emacs 31.1 is the mouse support for controlling Emacs in a terminal is enabled now by default.

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An experimental ‘no-GIL’ build mode in Python 3.13 disables the Global Interpreter Lock to enable true parallel execution in Python. Here’s where to start. The single biggest new feature in Python ...

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