The WebKit team announced new features in Safari 15.4 that include changes to HTML, CSS, typography, and more. WebKit is the web browser engine used by Safari, Mail, App Store, and many other apps on macOS, iOS, and Linux. Through WebKit’s addition of lazy-loading images with the ‘loading’ attribute on the <img> element, developers can … continue reading
The Nim team announced that the first long-term stable release of Nim 1.0, a compiled statically typed programming language is now available. According to the team, the compiler still implements experimental features that are documented in the “experimental manual.” This includes features such as concepts, the do notation and a few others. The 1.0.x branch … continue reading
Google has announced a new probabilistic programming toolbox for for its machine learning framework TensorFlow. TensorFlow Probability is designed to help researchers and practitioners build sophisticated models. According to the company, this will come in handy for users looking to build a generative model of data, looking to quantify the uncertainty in predictions, trying to … continue reading
Realm has announced Realm .NET, which adds Realm’s mobile data platform to the .NET ecosystem. This will allow developers to create apps on the Microsoft stack. Realm .NET has support for .NET and C# in Realm’s server side framework, and support for the Universal Windows Platform in its synchronization and data encryption technology. It also … continue reading
JavaScript is everywhere. Once relegated to an Internet fad, the malleable programming language has evolved along with the Web and now finds itself entrenched in modern browsers, complex Web applications, mobile development, server-side programming, and in emerging platforms like the Internet of Things. Underlying that browser-centric user and developer shift, JavaScript has developed a robust … continue reading
