Visual Studio analysed: will it ever migrate from .NET Framework?

Microsoft’s Visual Studio IDE still runs on the legacy .NET Framework, despite being the company’s premier development tool for modern…

Dapr: not just for Kubernetes or the Microsoft platform, says co-creator Mark Fussell

Dapr (Distributed Application Runtime) was created at Microsoft for Kubernetes, but goes beyond both, said co-creator Mark Fussell. Microsoft introduced…

AI coding: Hugging Face engineer extols benefits of open source models, but hard questions remain

AI coding using open source models has advantages in transparency and the ability to customize them, but hard questions about…

Meta based its Threads on Instagram to ship it quickly – and now has to unpick it

QCon London: Meta software engineer Zahan Malkani, speaking at QCon London, said that Threads was shipped in just five months…

VS Code updated with test coverage API, fixed floating windows, TypeScript 5.4 and more

Microsoft has released an update to Visual Studio Code, now built on Electron 28, with hundreds of changes, including fixes…

Qt 6.7 and Qt Creator 13 released with variable fonts, improved C++20 support, and more

The Qt Company has released version 6.7 of the Qt framework as well as Qt Creator 13, a new version…

Cloudflare updates Workers platform with Python support, event notifications, and improved local development

Cloudflare has updated its serverless Workers platform with new features including Python support, event notifications from R2 storage, and improved…

Bun 1.1 released with Windows support, stable WebSocket client and more

Bun - a bundler and runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript - was this week updated to version 1.1, now with…

Angular previews new features, Google aims to merge it with internal Wiz framework

The Angular team is previewing major new features including the Signals API and a new Output API, as Google reveals…