Tag: development

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JavaScript installer pnpm recast in Rust because ECMAScript can't keep up

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HTTP gets a QUERY method so complex searches can stop pretending to be POST

Speedier type checks in TypeScript 7.0 as first stable Go release ships

Deno project is going to add cross-platform desktop apps in next major update

Homebrew 6.0 released with new security mechanism, Linux sandbox and more

GitHub pulls pin on npm's auto-run scripts

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Microsoft Build News: Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, Coreutils for Windows, air-gapped GitHub and more

Agentic AI arrives for Delphi and C++ Builder

GitHub Actions outage told devs 'your account is suspended'

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GitHub says internal repos exfiltrated after poisoned VS Code extension attack

Microsoft aims to speed Windows with 'leap forward' in WinUI 3 perf

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C++ survey finds AI use rising, though trust is in short supply

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IBM's AI coding 'partner' Bob hits general availability

Google previews Android CLI for new world of agentic development

GitHub invokes spirit of Phabricator with preview of Stacked PRs

Juila Liuson, Microsoft president of developer division.

Microsoft developer chief Julia Liuson is logging off

Stack Overflow abandons redesign after loyalists criticize it

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Ruby Central report reopens wounds over RubyGems repo takeover

Contracts are in C++26 despite disquiet over their value

Linear moves sideways to agentic AI as CEO declares issue tracking dead

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Avalonia bolts Linux and WebAssembly onto .NET MAUI

Oracle introduces Project Detroit for fast Java interop with JavaScript and Python

Vite team boasts 10-30x faster builds with Rust-powered Rolldown

Microsoft ships VS Code weekly, adds Autopilot mode so AI can wreak havoc without bothering you

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Generic methods arrive in Golang, but they weren't the top dev demand

Top Microsoft execs fret about impact of AI on software engineering profession

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GitHub Dependabot is a 'noise machine', and should be turned off, says Go library maintainer

From Agile to AI: Anniversary workshop says test-driven development ideal for AI coding

React survey shows TanStack gains, doubts over server components

Anthropic updates to hide Claude’s AI actions, devs hate it

Microsoft delivers first preview of .NET 11 and C# 15

State of JavaScript survey shows that some of the most popular tools are also the least liked, including Next.js and Webpack.

JavaScript survey reveals gripes against date handling, Webpack and Next.js - and that "TypeScript has won"

OpenAI Codex app looks beyond the IDE, devs ask why Mac-only?

Adobe backtracks, reanimates Animate following user backlash

Anthropic research: skilled devs make better use of AI, but using AI is bad for learning skills

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Kubernetes leadership warns of Ingress NGINX risks, but has also hastened its deprecation

Kubernetes leadership warns of Ingress NGINX risks, but has also hastened its deprecation

TypeScript inventor Anders Hejlsberg: AI is ‘a big regurgitator of stuff someone has done’

TypeScript inventor Anders Hejlsberg: AI is 'a big regurgitator of stuff someone has done'

WebAssembly gaining adoption “behind the scenes” as technology advances

WebAssembly gaining adoption "behind the scenes" as technology advances

Microsoft previews command-line tool created because calling modern Windows APIs is too difficult

Microsoft previews command-line tool created because calling modern Windows APIs is too difficult

VS Code tasks config file abused to run malicious code

LLVM project adopts "human in the loop" policy following AI-driven nuisance contributions

Microsoft updates React Native for Windows. Developers ask, 'Why not use MAUI?'

jQuery 4.0 released, first major version since 2016

Open source MySQL repository has no commits in more than three months

Fly.io introduces Sprites: lightweight, persistent VMs to isolate agentic AI

Fly.io introduces Sprites: lightweight, persistent VMs to isolate agentic AI

Tailwind Labs lays off 75 percent of its engineers thanks to ‘brutal impact’ of AI

Tailwind Labs lays off 75 percent of its engineers thanks to 'brutal impact' of AI

Microsoft open sources XAML Studio amid developer discontent with Visual Studio designers

Microsoft open sources XAML Studio amid developer discontent with Visual Studio designers

Ruby 4.0 released – but its best new features are not production ready

Dramatic drop in Stack Overflow questions as devs look elsewhere for help

Dramatic drop in Stack Overflow questions as devs look elsewhere for help

GitHub to charge for self-hosted runners from March 2026

GitHub to charge for self-hosted runners from March 2026

Cursor AI editor gets visual designer – but bugs and ever-changing UI irk developers

Rust boosted by permanent adoption for Linux kernel code

Rust boosted by permanent adoption for Linux kernel code

VS Code update brings agent overload, TypeScript 7 preview, and the end of IntelliCode

Research: AI can help or hinder software development, and old-style best practices make the difference

Research: AI can help or hinder software development, and old-style best practices make the difference

JetBrains abandons Fleet IDE, pins hopes on forthcoming Air agentic development tool

AWS shows Rust love at re:Invent: 10 times faster than Kotlin, one tenth the latency of Go

Akamai buys Fermyon for Wasm-based serverless functions – a possible answer to Cloudflare workers

Bun JavaScript runtime acquired by Anthropic, tying its future to AI coding

Never mind the money: GitHub's sponsor programme was the single biggest source of income for the Zig Foundation in 2024

Zig project ditches GitHub for Codeberg but move could be costly

Google’s Chromium team decides it will add JPEG XL support, reverses ‘obsolete’ declaration

Google's Chromium team decides it will add JPEG XL support, reverses 'obsolete' declaration