Open Source

Eclipse, NetBeans, or IntelliJ? Choose your Java IDE

The big three Java IDEs differ in both features and usability; find out which of these venerable toolkits is right for you

Ruby creator floats new concurrency model

The new concurrency and parallelism model, called Guild, would feature thread safety, but isn't expected before 2020

Intel’s Python distribution turbocharges data science

Intel Distribution for Python adds Intel's high-speed math libraries to the existing, highly convenient Anaconda version for data scientists

What should you do with your .Net apps?

'The .Net Core has brought a renaissance in .Net,' says Scott Hunter, a member of the .Net engineering team. But that doesn’t mean you should port your existing apps

Remembering Loki’s Linux games from the ’90s

Also in today's open source roundup: DistroWatch reviews Peppermint OS 7, and should you switch from iOS to Android?

OCaml compiler brings type safety to JavaScript

BuckleScript from Bloomberg takes OCaml code and turns it into JavaScript

Microsoft open-sources Bing components for fast code compilation

New open source projects from Microsoft's Bing division have applications beyond search, including a framework for generating just-in-time compiled machine code

Cloud Native Ambassadors and Docker Captains navigate users through the container ecosystem

Linus Torvalds credits GPL with preventing Linux fragmentation

Also in today's open source roundup: DistroWatch reviews Korora 24, and games that never made it to SteamOS and Linux

3 new programming languages: What their creators say

Developers shed light on the urge to create new tools--in this case the emerging languages Coconut, Crystal, and Oden