Development Tools

Free edition of Visual Studio: Cool enough for non-Microsoft devs

With licensing restrictions that favor individual users and open source developers, the free-to-use edition of Visual Studio offers non-Microsoft developers quite a lot, too

Android Studio focuses on C++ editing

Version 1.3 of the IDE also gets memory and testing improvements

Java 9 plays catch-up, adds REPL for faster feedback

JShell's read-eval-print-loop functionality will allow Java programmers to interactively evaluate code

What Visual Studio 2015 says about the new Microsoft

New versions of Visual Studio have always revealed Microsoft's latest thinking. Visual Studio 2015 clearly shows Microsoft's commitment to cross-platform app dev

Understanding sun.misc.Unsafe

Shrouded in mystery, some say it's time for Java's Unsafe API to go -- or go public

Java devs abhor Oracle’s plan to kill private API

Oracle's plan to eliminate access to sun.misc.Unsafe has some Java developers swarming

Build an API for microservices in 5 minutes

Esri to unveil mapping tools in R

Software 'bridge' to connect ArcGIS map data and R can also be used on other geospatial files

Visual Studio 2015 expands language roster and mobile support

The upgrade includes .Net Framework 4.6 and the new Roslyn C# and Visual Basic compiler

NodeSource takes on Joyent in enterprise Node support

A key member of an enterprise Node coalition, NodeSource banks on its expertise with Node in business to sell its multitiered support services