Gradle Inc., the company behind the Gradle build automation system, announced today that it will be bringing the Kotlin language, developed at JetBrains, onto its platform. Originally unveiled in 2011, Kotlin is a statically typed language that runs on the JVM. While Kotlin is not syntax-compatible with Java, it is able to interoperate with Java, … continue reading
ActiveState today released Komodo IDE 10, the first version that supports TypeScript and ECMAScript 6. In addition, it brings new features for mobile developers, improved UI, and new hotkey settings that mimic other popular IDEs. Tom Radcliffe, director of engineering at ActiveState, said, “Our society’s reliance on mobile devices has led to the proliferation of … continue reading
The MOS 6502 is an iconic processor, at the heart of dozens of classic machines, from the Apple IIe, to the Commodore 64, to the Nintendo Entertainment System and the BBC Micro. Around the Web, there are dozens of great resources on the 6502, from the Visual 6502 to stories of the C64 and the … continue reading
Intuit is known for its Quick software: QuickBooks, Quicken, and until recently, QuickBase, the shared database, low-code platform for developers and business analysts. That company was spun out on its own on April 1, and today it made a bevy of announcements, some of its first as an independent company. Chief among those announcements were … continue reading
GitHub today released version 1.0 of Electron, its application framework for building cross-platform software. Electron uses CSS, HTML and JavaScript, and it can build native applications for Linux, OS X and Windows. Originally known as Atom Shell, Electron went into development two years ago. The original goal of the project was to build a framework … continue reading
Rogue Wave Software today released Zend Server 9, a new version of its PHP server that mixes PHP 7 and new debugging capabilities into the same box. PHP 7 includes many speedups for the language, and Zend Server 9 supports these speed gains so that developers and administrators can realize them in production. Also included … continue reading
It’s been two years exactly since the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided that Google was infringing on Oracle copyrights by implementing Java APIs in Android. Those APIs were replicated in the Apache Harmony project, and then used inside Android. Oracle originally sued Google over the use of these APIs eight months after the company … continue reading
There was a blog post earlier this week from Nicolas Bize praising the benefits of teaching BASIC to his son. Specifically, he was speaking of QBasic as the preferred way to teach his son to program. It got me thinking about BASIC, as this was also the language I learned to program on. Here we … continue reading
Quantum computing may still sound like science fiction, but the world’s oldest computer maker has decided to push that fiction into reality. Today, IBM announced that it would begin allowing customers to have access to its quantum computer via its cloud computing offerings. The IBM Cloud will allow developers selected by IBM to access a … continue reading
Google’s Go programming language is preparing to advance to version 1.7. Yesterday afternoon, Russ Cox, who works on the Go team at Google, e-mailed the language’s developer list to indicate that the end of this week would be the cutoff point for proposed changes and fixes in the forthcoming 1.7 release. That release should, if … continue reading
CenturyLink today announced the availability of Runner, a hybrid cloud IT-management platform. Runner puts management and provisioning tools based on Ansible in the hands of IT organizations, and can be used with both internal clouds and public ones. Runner is built around Ansible, the provisioning software purchased by Red Hat last fall. Using Ansible with … continue reading
GitHub is making enterprise source control easier to manage with the release of GitHub Enterprise 2.6 earlier this week. The new version includes improvements designed to make it easier for managers to handle pull requests and workflows. GitHub 2.6 brings new pull request features. Now, the platform has pre-receive hooks that allow the enforcement of … continue reading
