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Nov 11

C# 10 arrives

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Microsoft’s C# 10 promises ‘prettier’ code

Major upgrade to the .NET programming language arrives with new capabilities designed to improve speed and expressiveness.

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Oct 21

Python stands to lose its GIL

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Python stands to lose its GIL, and gain a lot of speed

A new project to change the CPython runtime to boost multithreaded performance has drawn the attention of Python’s core development team.

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Oct 21

Microsoft launches Visual Studio Code for the Web

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Microsoft previews Visual Studio Code for the Web

Browser-based code editor does have limitations, company warns, but the coding experience is nearly identical to the desktop for web languages.

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Oct 12

Microsoft will launch Visual Studio 2022, a 64-bit version of its signature IDE, on November 8.

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Sep 30

Microsoft .NET 6 goes to release candidate stage

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What’s new in Microsoft .NET 6

Next-gen software development platform that unites the .NET Framework and .NET Core is now available in a production release.

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Sep 30

Python concurrency/parallelism explained

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Python concurrency and parallelism explained

Learn how to use Python’s async functions, threads, and multiprocessing capabilities to juggle tasks and improve the responsiveness of your applications.

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Sep 30

Get started with Go testing

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Get started with Go testing

Learn how to create and run unit tests in Go with the programming language’s built-in test management tools.

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Sep 30

Apple's Swift 5.5 arrives

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Swift 5.5 introduces async/await, structured concurrency, and actors

‘Massive’ upgrade to the Apple-developed programming language also brings new package management capabilities.

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Sep 30

Angular 13 update

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What’s new in Angular 13

Version 13 of the popular TypeScript-based web framework is now available as a production release.

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Sep 30

Java port eyed for RISC-V

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Java port eyed for RISC-V hardware

Port of the JVM to the open-source licensed instruction set architecture could be ready later this year, if project gets approval to proceed.

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Sep 14

Java 17 is launched today

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JDK 17: The new features in Java 17

The latest long-term support release of standard Java features always-strict floating point semantics, a foreign function and memory API, a uniform API for pseudo random number generators, and much...

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Sep 14

Oracle has launched a Java resources website, http://dev.java, providing a technical playground for developers to improve skills.

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Dev.java: The Destination for Java Developers

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Aug 13

Latest Visual Studio 2022 IDE preview hones in on JavaScript, multi-repo support

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Visual Studio 2022 Preview 3 shines on JavaScript, TypeScript, Git

Multi-repo capabilities also highlighted in planned upgrade to Microsoft’s flagship IDE.

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Aug 13

OpenAI offers AI API

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OpenAI offers API for GitHub Copilot AI model

Available through the OpenAI API in a private beta, Codex can translate natural language into code in upwards of a dozen programming language.

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Aug 13

Vue 3.2 emphasizes performance

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Vue 3.2 promises a speed boost

Latest update to the popular JavaScript framework brings ‘significant’ performance improvements to the reactivity system.

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Aug 13

Oracle accelerates HeatWave queries with machine learning

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Oracle accelerates MySQL HeatWave queries with machine learning

MySQL Autopilot uses advanced machine learning techniques to accelerate HeatWave query performance and scalability in Oracle Cloud’s MySQL Database Service.

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Aug 13

JetBrains IDE upgraded

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JetBrains Java IDE adds project analysis, build system improvements

JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA 2021.2 checks Java code changes for errors before compilation and eases management of Maven and Gradle dependencies with Package Search plug-in.

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Aug 13

Java 17 on the horizon

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JDK 17: The new features in Java 17

The latest long-term support release of standard Java features always-strict floating point semantics, a foreign function and memory API, a uniform API for pseudo random number generators, and much...

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Aug 13

Rust 1.54 arrives

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What’s new in the Rust programming language

Rust was designed to make it easy to develop fast and safe system-level software. Here’s what’s new.

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Aug 13

Stack Overflow dev survey

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Developers love Rust and Svelte, dread AngularJS, Stack Overflow survey says

2021 survey by the developer Q&A site also found that developers earn more for Clojure, DynamoDB, AWS, and Ruby on Rails.