The Dart programming language has reached a new major milestone with the technical preview of its new null safety feature, the Dart team announced. According to the team, this feature has been in development for over a year, and is the biggest addition to the Dart language since Dart 2. “Null safety helps you avoid … continue reading
For the past few years, reports have indicated that Python was quickly rising to the top of the most used programming languages. Python was the 2018 TIOBE Index programming language of the year. TIOBE even predicted in June of last year that Python would soon surpass Java on its index. Additionally, it was the second-most … continue reading
The .NET 5.0 preview 5 is now available. This version contains RyuJIT improvements, enabled exports for native binaries that calls into .NET code for a long time, and the removal of built-in WinRT support in .NET 5.0 Microsoft explained that although most of the features are now in the product, they’re not yet in their … continue reading
PHP is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. It was first created by Rasmus Lerdorf as a way to track visits to his website. The language started off as a set of Common Gateway Interface (CGI) binaries written in C, JetBrains explained in a blog post. The first suite of PHP scripts were named “Personal … continue reading
Microsoft announced that the Go team has officially stepped up as the new maintainer of the Go extension for VS Code. The news comes as 41% of developers that are working with Go stated that VS Code is their primary code editor, according to the Go developer survey. “Both the Go and Visual Studio Code … continue reading
The latest release of the integrated development environment for Java is now available. Apache NetBeans 12.0 adds support for the latest Java features, integrates new code donations from Oracle for Java Web development and many improvements. It also enhances Apache Maven tooling and includes built-in features for Payara and WildFly for the first time. According … continue reading
OpenJDK usage has ramped up significantly in the past few years, and even more so in the past year after Oracle’s decision in 2019 to change their licensing model for Java so that only paid subscribers would get updates for Java SE. A Snyk survey from 2020 revealed that only 34% of Java users utilized … continue reading
IBM announced that it would sunset its general purpose facial recognition and analysis software products to address the responsible use of technology by law enforcement. The company will no longer develop or research facial recognition technology. IBM CEO Arvind Krishna sent a letter to Congress outlining the decision and sending proposals and policy changes. RELATED … continue reading
Harness has announced a new solution designed to make it easier for development and DevOps teams to manage the cost of containerized applications and microservices that are running in cloud environments. With Continuous Efficiency, these teams are given immediate visibility into the cost of their applications, microservices, and clusters. “Skyrocketing cloud costs are an unsolved … continue reading
CloudBees announced the latest version of its continuous integration solution. The new version of CloudBees CI meets stringent United States Department of Defense standards for security. “With the CtF certification, CloudBees CI can be readily used by DoD agencies, as well as civilian agencies and federal system integrators (FSIs),” said Michael Wright, the director of … continue reading
Where is your organization on the cloud data journey? Most businesses are steadily moving toward the cloud, with most businesses planning to migrate to the cloud or expand their cloud presence in the next few years. There are four stages of the end-to-end journey: cloud discovery, cloud data migration, cloud data maturity, and cloud data … continue reading
According to research recently published by Digital Enterprise Journal, organizations are losing $2,129,000 per month, on average, due to delays in application releases. This creates a tough choice for development teams, who are depending on fresh logs and metrics from those releases to guide their data-driven development processes forward. In other words, there’s what I like … continue reading
MemSQL 7.1 is now available on MemSQL Helios, the company’s elastic cloud database. This release improves support for OLTP-style (highly-selective) queries on columnstores, high availability, and disaster recovery. It also delivers improved resilience features to further strengthen MemSQL for mission-critical applications providing transaction processing, operational analytics, and more. “The MemSQL 7.1 release delivers a big … continue reading
Static code analysis company DeepCode announced the DeepCode plugin for IntelliJ, PyCharm, and WebStorm, designed to find bugs and critical vulnerabilities in code. The plugin comes with Java, C/C++, Python, JavaScript and TypeScript support. DeepCode is also working on adding CLion support. According to the company, it uses a new symbolic AI technique called Ontology … continue reading
