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Meaning of -lang | Babel Free

Phrase CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. Combining with the names of programming languages, especially those which may be confused with common English words.
    informal, morpheme
  2. Combining form of language.
    form-of, in-compounds, informal, morpheme

Examples

“"One of the biggest ones to point out is that async runtimes are still a bit unclear," noted Thomas. He also said the learning curve was difficult, which chimes with top obstacles to Rust adoption revealed in Rustlang's most recent survey of developers.”
“Threat actors are increasingly shifting to "exotic" programming languages such as Go, Rust, Nim, and Dlang that can better circumvent conventional security protections, evade analysis, and hamper reverse engineering efforts.”
“I don't mind people saying Golang. Once. In a title or a tag or something. So search engines can find it. Once. Once. Fucking once.”
“For the Golang community, it didn't help that the language came out of Google, an advertising platform with accessories.”
“Vlang's simplicity and performance are promising, but its novelty results in a lack of comprehensive libraries and the small community. The language is also under constant changes which may cause instability and compatibility issues.”
“The researchers noted that DLang is an uncommon choice for writing malware, but a shift towards newer languages and frameworks is one that's been accelerating over the last few years – in malware coding as in the larger programming world.”
“proto- + -lang → protolang”
“auxiliary + -lang → auxlang”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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