Compiling is a form of test, especially in languages which make extensive use of types such as Haskell or ML. In other languages it's a syntactic scan that tells you little.

Right now, compiling KDE's basic modules and libraries on a single machine takes me around three hours, and that's just to get a desktop. Even with a core 2 duo, it's a lot of time to sit around and ...

On my way to this year’s Hackaday SuperConference I saw an article on EE Times about someone taking the $22 Lattice iCEstick and turning it into a logic analyzer complete with a Python app to ...