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OpenAI’s desktop superapp: The end of ChatGPT as we know it?

A product consolidation raises bigger questions about where OpenAI is really headed.

By Gyana Swain

Mar 20, 20265 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDevelopment ToolsSoftware Development

Kotlin 1.6.20 arrives with better Java class interop

Latest update to the versatile language from JetBrains offers improvements for JVM, JavaScript, and native development.

By Paul Krill

Apr 5, 2022 2 mins

Java Kotlin Mobile Development

Ruby upgrade enhances WebAssembly support

Ruby 3.2.0 preview adds WebAssembly System Interface support, allowing the CRuby binary to run in web browsers and other WASI embedders.

By Paul Krill

Apr 5, 2022 2 mins

Programming Languages Ruby Web Development

GitHub Copilot available for Microsoft Visual Studio 2022

AI-driven coding assistant, still in technical preview, has raised questions about the fairness, legitimacy, and legality of its use of freely licensed software.

By Paul Krill

Apr 2, 2022 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Software Development

Visual Studio Code 1.66 shines on JavaScript heap profiles, CSS formatting

Local history, language-specific settings also enhanced in latest version of Microsoft’s open source code editor.

By Paul Krill

Apr 1, 2022 2 mins

Development Tools Software Development

Docker raises $105M funding round to fuel its focus on developers

The container company is continuing to focus on serving developers after selling off its enterprise business to Mirantis in 2019.

By Scott Carey

Mar 31, 2022 2 mins

Cloud Computing Software Development Technology Industry

React 18 arrives with concurrent renderer, automatic batching

Major update to the popular JavaScript framework boosts performance by rendering multiple UI versions simultaneously and batching all updates by default.

By Paul Krill

Mar 31, 2022 2 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks Web Development

Solomon Hykes’ Dagger raises $20M and launches public beta

Startup founded by three Docker alumni is raising its first major round of funding as it finally looks to get its CI/CD tool into the hands of users.

By Scott Carey

Mar 30, 2022 2 mins

Build Automation Cloud Computing Devops

WSO2 launches low-code, cloud-native PaaS for API development

WSO2 Choreo offers a graphical, low-code development environment for building cloud-native APIs, integrations, and microservices, featuring built-in CI/CD and observability.

By Paul Krill

Mar 30, 2022 2 mins

APIs Cloud Computing PaaS

Micro:bit donates 57,000 coding devices to UK primary schools

The Micro:bit educational foundation is donating the devices alongside partners Nominet and the Scottish government in a bid to boost coding skills amongst primary school students.

By Charlotte Trueman

Mar 30, 2022 2 mins

IT Skills and Training Software Development

Mozilla unveils vision for web evolution

Company behind the Firefox browser calls for advancing web privacy, performance, and accessibility.

By Paul Krill

Mar 29, 2022 2 mins

Security Technology Industry Web Development

Microsoft ends support for .NET 5.0

Microsoft announced that .NET 5.0 will no longer receive servicing updates including security updates after May 8. Users are advised to move to .NET 6.0.

By Paul Krill

Mar 25, 2022 2 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET Software Development

PlanetScale introduces Rewind feature to ‘undo’ bad schema migrations

Customers of PlanetScale’s database-as-a-service can now safely revert changes from schema migrations within 30 minutes of a deployment request.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Mar 25, 2022 2 mins

Cloud Computing Databases Software Development

Redis Stack outfits Redis for real-time apps

Redis Stack combines open source Redis and the leading Redis modules for search, document, graph, and time series capabilities.

By Paul Krill

Mar 25, 2022 2 mins

Databases Software Development

DataStax adds real-time data streaming to managed AstraDB service

DataStax’s new change data capture (CDC) feature adds low-latency streaming to its AstraDB database-as-a-service.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Mar 24, 2022 2 mins

Cloud Computing Databases Software Development

Red Hat OpenShift adds Nvidia, Arm, AI support

Kubernetes-based platform beefs up support for AI and machine learning workloads and eases deployment to additional cloud partners.

By Paul Krill

Mar 23, 2022 2 mins

Machine Learning Nvidia Technology Industry

Demand for software developers doubled in 2021

The latest report from tech hiring specialist Hired shows that interview requests for software engineers doubled in 2021, with remote roles accounting for a growing proportion of roles.

By Scott Carey

Mar 22, 2022 3 mins

Careers Engineer Software Development

JDK 18: The new features in Java 18

Java 18 incubates a vector API, previews pattern matching for switch expressions, adopts UTF-8 as the default character set, includes a simple web server, and more.

By Paul Krill

Mar 22, 2022 7 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development

Microsoft revs up regex source generation in .NET 7

The second preview release of the next version of Microsoft’s software development platform also enhances the .NET SDK with a more intuitive interface.

By Paul Krill

Mar 18, 2022 2 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET Software Development

Deno gets faster Rust calls

The JavaScript/TypeScript runtime features optimization for the communication layer.

By Paul Krill

Mar 18, 2022 2 mins

JavaScript Programming Languages Rust

Oracle OCI compute, storage, networking tools aim to cut cloud complexity

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) IaaS adds 11 new tools across compute, storage and networking services, in a bid to reduce complexity and optimize costs.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Mar 17, 2022 7 mins

Cloud Computing IaaS Technology Industry

ServiceNow adds incident response platform to SaaS portfolio

Lightstep Incident Response gives devops teams access to observability tools to determine the root cause of incidents via a self-service portal.

By Michael Hill

Mar 17, 2022 3 mins

Devops SaaS

Microsoft .NET MAUI nears the finish line

The cross-platform dev framework moves to Preview 14, with general availability planned for the second quarter of 2022.

By Paul Krill

Mar 17, 2022 2 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET Software Development

Go 1.18 arrives with much-anticipated generics

Now available in a production release, Go 1.18 introduces ‘the most significant change’ to Go since the programming language debuted in 2012.

By Paul Krill

Mar 15, 2022 3 mins

Golang Programming Languages Software Development

Python removes ‘dead batteries’ from standard library

A slew of obsolete modules are slated to be dropped from Python, a possible prelude to a process for keeping the standard library cleaner.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Mar 14, 2022 2 mins

Programming Languages Python Software Development

Microsoft pushes optional type annotations for JavaScript

Standards proposal would allow annotations to be checked by external type checkers like TypeScript but treated as comments by the JavaScript engine.

By Paul Krill

Mar 12, 2022 3 mins

JavaScript Technology Industry Web Development

Google, Microsoft, Apple, Mozilla address browser pain points

Interop 2022 is a cross-browser initiative and public benchmark to find and fix interoperability issues on the web platform.

By Paul Krill

Mar 11, 2022 2 mins

Software Development Technology Industry Web Development

Microsoft opens Azure-based Startups Founders Hub, easing eligibility rules

Successful applicants to Microsoft’s Startups Founders Hub will be rewarded with Azure and OpenAI credits, and free access to productivity and developer tools including GitHub and Microsoft 365.

By Charlotte Trueman

Mar 9, 2022 2 mins

Microsoft Azure Software Development Technology Industry

Microsoft previews Edge Developer Tools for Visual Studio

The extension preview allows developers to preview ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core web projects, debug and edit HTML and CSS, and inspect and simulate network conditions.

By Paul Krill

Mar 9, 2022 1 min

Development Tools Microsoft .NET Web Development

Java 19 could be big

The next version of standard Java seems poised to include a foreign function and memory API, a vector API, pattern matching for switch expressions, universal generics, and more.

By Paul Krill

Mar 8, 2022 3 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development

Why Google donated Knative to the CNCF

After initially dragging its feet over donating Knative to the CNCF, Google suddenly changed course toward the end of 2021. Why the change of heart?

By Scott Carey

Mar 4, 2022 4 mins

Cloud Computing Open Source Serverless Computing

February 2022 release of Microsoft’s open source code editor also enhances debugging, audio cues, and VS Code for the Web.

By Paul Krill

Mar 4, 2022 3 mins

Development Tools Software Development

Pulumi launches Business Critical edition for enterprise customers

The infrastructure as code provider is adding new enterprise features as it looks to meet the needs of larger organizations.

By Scott Carey

Mar 3, 2022 2 mins

Application Security Cloud Computing Devops

Java 8 still dominates, but Java 17 wave is coming – survey

More than one-third of professional Java developers surveyed by Perforce JRebel were using the eight-year-old version of Java for their main application.

By Paul Krill

Mar 3, 2022 2 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development

Harvard census identifies most commonly used open source packages

Researchers hope that by raising awareness of the most widely used open source packages, they can help prevent the next Log4j or Heartbleed exploit from happening.

By Scott Carey

Mar 2, 2022 4 mins

Application Security JavaScript Open Source

Wasmer 2.2 revs compiler, supports Apple M1 and Aarch64

Compiler overhaul for the server-side runtime for WebAssembly boosts both compilation speed and execution performance.

By Paul Krill

Mar 1, 2022 2 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Programming Languages Web Development

TypeScript 4.6 adds control flow analysis, ES2022 support

Latest version of Microsoft’s strongly typed JavaScript also allows code in constructors before super(), improves recursion depth checks, and more.

By Paul Krill

Mar 1, 2022 3 mins

JavaScript Programming Languages Software Development

VMware adds container runtime protection to Carbon Black security portfolio

The virtualization specialist is looking to help customers secure their containerized environments from build through deployment.

By Scott Carey

Mar 1, 2022 2 mins

Application Security Devops Software Development

AWS Lambda backs .NET 6.NET Lambda capabilities

AWS Lambda users now can write event-driven, serverless functions in the latest version of Microsoft .NET. The .NET 6 Lambda runtime also improves logging and traceability.

By Paul Krill

Feb 28, 2022 2 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft .NET Software Development

GitLab 14.8 adds security approval policies, extends SSH support

Update to the GitLab devops platform introduces chainable security approval policies as the replacement for the deprecated Vulnerability-Check feature.

By Paul Krill

Feb 25, 2022 2 mins

Build Automation Devops Software Development

Microsoft unveils C# 11 list patterns, raw string literals

Next version of Microsoft’s flagship programming language for .NET development will also simplify the syntax for parameter null checking.

By Paul Krill

Feb 24, 2022 2 mins

C# Development Tools Microsoft .NET

Deno 1.19 extends web streams support

Latest update to the secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript brings native support for web streams to files, network sockets, and stdio.

By Paul Krill

Feb 23, 2022 3 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks Software Development

TypeScript usage growing by leaps and bounds — report

2021 State of JS survey of JavaScript developers also finds significant growth in the use of WebAssembly and Progressive Web Apps.

By Paul Krill

Feb 21, 2022 2 mins

Java JavaScript Python

Microsoft .NET 7 zeroes in on containers and cloud

Now available in the first preview, .NET 7 promises significant improvement to .NET development with containers.

By Paul Krill

Feb 18, 2022 2 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET Software Development

Rust language is fun but challenging — survey

Survey of Rust programmers indicates they enjoy using the language but writing production-ready code is sometimes a struggle.

By Paul Krill

Feb 17, 2022 2 mins

Programming Languages Rust Software Development

Visual Studio 2022 update improves search, Git integration

Visual Studio 2022 version 17.1 is now generally available for production use, while Visual Studio 2022 version 17.2 is available in a preview.

By Paul Krill

Feb 17, 2022 3 mins

Development Tools Microsoft .NET Software Development

Microsoft .NET 7 Preview 1 coming this week

Microsoft is marking the 20th birthday of .NET with the first preview of the next version of the platform.

By Paul Krill

Feb 15, 2022 2 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET Software Development

Node.js trademarks move to OpenJS Foundation

The OpenJS Foundation shepherds dozens of open source JavaScript projects including jQuery, Dojo, Electron, and Webpack.

By Paul Krill

Feb 14, 2022 2 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks Web Development

Microsoft ends support for older Visual Studio versions

Company has posted end of support timelines and suggested upgrade paths for users of Visual Studio 2012, Visual Studio 2017, and Visual Studio 2019.

By Paul Krill

Feb 11, 2022 2 mins

Development Tools Software Development

Ballerina revamps RESTful services support

Programming language designed for building cloud-native applications adds ‘first class’ support for data-oriented protocols such as GraphQL and RPC-style protocols such as gRPC.

By Paul Krill

Feb 11, 2022 2 mins

Programming Languages Software Development

CNCF survey: Managed Kubernetes becomes the norm

Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s latest survey shows that container and Kubernetes usage continues to rise, as managed services ease the operational burden on their teams.

By Scott Carey

Feb 10, 2022 2 mins

Cloud Computing Software Development