AWS enhances Q Developer: Test and review code, upgrade to modern .NET, migrate mainframe applications

At AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, the cloud concern introduced a bunch of features for Q Developer, its AI coding…

After ditching .NET Foundation, Avalonia UI project will add more paid-only features to sustain funding

The Avalonia UI open source project, which provides a cross-platform user interface framework for .NET, is removing low-cost support options…

Interview with Kotlin lead designer: How far will the language diverge from Java? 

Kotlin lead designer Michail ZarečenskijThe Kotlin language, developed by JetBrains and open source under the Apache2.0 licence, began in 2011…

Modernizing Windows desktop development: WPF and Windows Forms to share code in .NET 10

Microsoft is investing further in the familiar Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Windows Forms (WinForms) desktop frameworks, as well as…

Uno Hot Design aims to meet demand for a visual designer for modern .NET

Uno – a specialist in cross-platform application development for .NET – has previewed Hot Design, a visual design tool, as…

JetBrains releases IntelliJ IDEA 2024.3 and other IDEs, still struggles to convince devs of benefits of new UI 

JetBrains has released IntelliJ IDEA 2024.3, its IDE for Java and Kotlin, along with updated versions of other IDEs in…

.NET 9 released with updated frameworks and tooling, but Microsoft factor both helps and hurts the platform

Microsoft has released .NET 9, along with Visual Studio 2022 17.12 and updates to a host of associated frameworks and…

ISO C++ Chair Herb Sutter leaves Microsoft, declares forthcoming C++ 26 'most impactful release since C++11'

Herb Sutter, chair of the ISO C++ ISO C++ committee, has left Microsoft after 22 years, to become technical fellow…

Visual Basic 6 recreated as a cross-platform IDE in modern .NET – just 'for fun'

Software engineer Bartosz Korczynski has created what he calls "a recreation of the classic Visual Basic 6 (VB 6) IDE…