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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

WhiteSource report warns of NPM registry risks

Provider of open source vulnerability scanning software finds malicious packages on widely used JavaScript package registry.

By Paul Krill

Feb 10, 2022 2 mins

Application Security JavaScript Web Development

Starburst update aims to help develop data products from any source

Starburst has embraced the data mesh distributed architectural approach to data management, adding new data product capabilities to its flagship Starburst Enterprise software.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Feb 9, 2022 5 mins

Analytics Data Management

Angular 14 to add strictly typed reactive forms

Plans for the next major release of the Google-developed web framework also include standalone components, while NgModules would become optional.

By Paul Krill

Feb 9, 2022 2 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks Web Development

Google Flutter 2.10 intros stable support for Windows

With the latest Flutter update, Windows joins iOS and Android as Flutter targets for production-ready apps. MacOS and Linux desktop support are still in beta.

By Paul Krill

Feb 8, 2022 2 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Mobile Development Small and Medium Business

Creatio updates Atlas low-code platform to make it easier to reuse code

The new version of Creatio's low-code development platform lets developers take a "composable" approach to building apps by reusing previously engineered components, adds AI assistance for UI/UX design, and offers a new, unified develo

By Anirban Ghoshal

Feb 8, 2022 5 mins

No Code and Low Code Software Development

Visual Studio Code for Web gets verified GitHub commits

Visual Studio Code 1.64 brings a host of improvements to native and online versions of the code editor.

By Paul Krill

Feb 5, 2022 3 mins

Development Tools Software Development

Swift-C++ interoperability effort moves forward

Bidirectional interoperability workgroup formed as the Swift compiler adds the ability to import and use some C++ APIs.

By Paul Krill

Feb 4, 2022 1 min

C++ Programming Languages Swift

Java proposal would lower GC latency

Proposal would implement region pinning in the default GC so that Java threads would never have to wait for a garbage collection operation to complete.

By Paul Krill

Feb 3, 2022 3 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development

Groovy 4.0.0 adds SQL-like querying

Groovy-integrated queries, sealed types, and switch expressions make their debut in the latest upgrade of the popular JVM language.

By Paul Krill

Feb 2, 2022 2 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development

Deno 1.18 completes Web Crypto API

Latest release of Node.js alternative also brings automatic discovery of configuration files and stabilization of the nested test steps API.

By Paul Krill

Jan 31, 2022 2 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks Web Development

Google releases differential privacy pipeline for Python

PipelineDP allows datasets containing personal information to be aggregated in a way that preserves the privacy of individuals.

By Paul Krill

Jan 31, 2022 2 mins

Data Science Machine Learning Python

Microsoft .NET Community Toolkit backs .NET 6

Preview 1 of .NET Community Toolkit 8.0.0 adds .NET 6 support and brings a number of enhancements to the MVVM toolkit.

By Paul Krill

Jan 28, 2022 2 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET Software Development

GraalVM 22.0 promises a better developer experience

Newly arrived upgrade of the Oracle-developed polyglot runtime features improvements for Ruby, WebAssembly, Java, and Python.

By Paul Krill

Jan 27, 2022 3 mins

Java JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks

Microsoft publishes Java roadmap for Visual Studio Code

Planned Java-related improvements for VS Code range from smarter code completion and better debugging to deeper integration with Kubernetes and cloud services.

By Paul Krill

Jan 26, 2022 2 mins

Development Tools Java Software Development

Ruby 3.1 arrives with new JIT compiler

Still-experimental YJIT just-in-time compiler promises faster warmup and performance improvements on most real-world Ruby software.

By Paul Krill

Jan 25, 2022 2 mins

Programming Languages Ruby Software Development

Git alternative Pijul moves to beta

Open source distributed version control system based on a ‘theory of patches’ promises to be fast, scalable, and easier to learn and use than Git.

By Paul Krill

Jan 24, 2022 2 mins

Development Tools Software Development Version Control Systems

Rust 1.58.1 fixes dangerous race condition

Vulnerability would allow an attacker to trick a privileged program into deleting files and directories that the attacker otherwise could not access or delete.

By Paul Krill

Jan 21, 2022 1 min

Programming Languages Rust Security

Faker NPM package back on track after malicious coding incident

A new group of maintainers is proceeding with an ‘official’ version of the Faker JavaScript library after the previous maintainer went rogue.

By Paul Krill

Jan 19, 2022 2 mins

Application Security JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks

Suse open sources NeuVector container security platform

After acquiring NeuVector last year, Suse wasted no time in open sourcing the ‘full lifecycle’ container security platform for all Kubernetes users.

By Scott Carey

Jan 18, 2022 2 mins

Application Security Security Software Development

Parcel CSS parser offered as performance enhancer

The new tool was written in the Rust language and provides speed and minification.

By Paul Krill

Jan 14, 2022 2 mins

Programming Languages Rust Web Development

IPython REPL update advances code formatting

The new version of the tool also emphasizes error traceback and auto-suggestions.

By Paul Krill

Jan 13, 2022 2 mins

Programming Languages Python

Firefox 96 enhances CSS, Canvas support for developers

Cookies also get attention in the latest Mozilla browser release, with better protection against cross-site request forgery attacks.

By Paul Krill

Jan 12, 2022 2 mins

Software Development Technology Industry Web Development

Microsoft .NET MAUI Preview 11 updates Windows UI styling

Latest preview of the successor to Xamarin.Forms introduces support for Windows 11 UI styles and multi-window applications on MacOS, iPadOS, and Windows.

By Paul Krill

Jan 11, 2022 2 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Small and Medium Business

AngularJS reaches end of life

JavaScript framework that ‘revolutionized’ web development will no longer be maintained, but third-party support options are available.

By Paul Krill

Jan 8, 2022 2 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks Web Development

Visual Studio 2022 update offers Git improvements

C++ reference searches, code cleanup, autosaves, and stack traces also get attention in planned upgrade.

By Paul Krill

Jan 6, 2022 2 mins

Development Tools Microsoft .NET Software Development

Google Prediction Framework addresses data pipeline drudgery

Prediction Framework weaves together Google Cloud Platform services to simplify the implementation of prediction projects.

By Paul Krill

Jan 5, 2022 2 mins

Analytics Cloud Computing Google Cloud Platform

Python nabs programming language of the year honors

For the second year in a row, the Tiobe index identified Python as the programming language whose popularity increased the most.

By Paul Krill

Jan 4, 2022 2 mins

Java Programming Languages Python

Project Valhalla tees up Java object model improvements

OpenJDK proposals would introduce value objects, primitive objects, and unify basic primitives with objects, so that all Java values will be objects.

By Paul Krill

Jan 3, 2022 2 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development

GitLab 14.6 shines on distributed deployments

Latest release of the devops platform simplifies Geo configuration, allows GitLab mirrors to serve as write proxies, and adds vulnerability scanning support for .NET 6.

By Paul Krill

Dec 24, 2021 2 mins

Build Automation Devops Version Control Systems

Visual Studio feedback upgrade snubs older versions

New feedback system will increase responsiveness to issues and improve the developer experience, Microsoft says, but some users will need to update their IDEs.

By Paul Krill

Dec 22, 2021 2 mins

Development Tools Software Development Technology Industry

New Relic expands enterprise full-stack observability to include MLOps

New Relic has updated its full-stack analysis and observability platform, New Relic One, to allow data scientists and machine learning engineers to import data from different systems, monitor ML application performance and retrain models.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Dec 22, 2021 4 mins

Devops Machine Learning Software Development

Kubernetes adoption up, serverless down, developer survey says

‘State of Cloud Native Development’ report finds the number of developers using Kubernetes increased 67% in 12 months.

By Paul Krill

Dec 22, 2021 2 mins

Cloud Computing Serverless Computing Software Development

Microsoft reveals plans for Entity Framework 7.0

Themes for the next version of the object-relational mapper for .NET include support for JSON columns and raw SQL queries for unmapped types.

By Paul Krill

Dec 17, 2021 2 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Software Development

Ruby on Rails 7 rejiggers JavaScript support

Now available in a production release, Rails 7 removes the requirements for Node.js and Webpack, while supporting NPM and ES module imports.

By Paul Krill

Dec 16, 2021 2 mins

JavaScript Ruby Web Development

How developers scrambled to secure the Log4j vulnerability

A group of developers and maintainers scrambled to secure the Log4j vulnerability over the weekend, but there is still a lot of work to do to clean up the mess.

By Scott Carey

Dec 16, 2021 7 mins

Application Security Java Security

Azul brings Java compilation to the cloud

Cloud Native Compiler service reuses previously optimized compilations across JVMs to boost the performance of Java applications.

By Paul Krill

Dec 15, 2021 2 mins

Cloud Computing Java Programming Languages

Deno joins JavaScript standards effort

Company behind JavaScript/TypeScript runtime will push for additions to ECMAScript that benefit users of server-side JavaScript.

By Paul Krill

Dec 14, 2021 2 mins

JavaScript Programming Languages Web Development

Mulesoft updates Anypoint to streamline API management, support devops

Mulesoft says that its latest Anypoint updates allow enterprises to create and orchestrate the deployment of APIs of any origin, in any architecture or environment.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Dec 13, 2021 5 mins

APIs Devops

Visual Studio Code 1.63, aka the November 2021 release, also adds support for trying out pre-release extensions.

By Paul Krill

Dec 10, 2021 2 mins

Development Tools Software Development

GitHub previews enhanced code search

The popular code-sharing site also introduced improved code navigation for Python, with support for additional languages to come.

By Paul Krill

Dec 9, 2021 3 mins

Development Tools Python Version Control Systems

Flutter 2.8 boosts mobile performance

Major rev of the Google-developed cross-platform development framework promises faster startup and lower resource requirements for mobile apps, along with easier ways to connect with back-end services.

By Paul Krill

Dec 8, 2021 2 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Mobile Development Web Development

Django 4.0 adds Redis database caching

Customization, password hashing also addressed in latest version of Python-based framework.

By Paul Krill

Dec 8, 2021 2 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Python Web Development

Top developer takeaways from AWS re:Invent 2021

AWS’s annual conference may be less about builders than it used to be, but there were still plenty for developers to get their teeth into. Here are our top picks among the talks and announcements.

By Scott Carey

Dec 3, 2021 5 mins

Amazon Web Services Cloud Computing Software Development