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Survey finds game engines used equally by non-game projects, rise of interest in open source Godot

A survey conducted by Perforce in conjunction with JetBrains has found that only 50 percent of game engine […]

Sourcegraph makes core repository private, co-founder complains open source means “extra work and risk”

Sourcegraph has removed the formerly open source core repository for its popular code search product from public view […]

AWS introduces macOS for CodeBuild service, blames Apple licensing requirement for high price

AWS has added features to its CodeBuild service, most notably macOS instances for building applications for iOS and […]

Rust 1.80.0 breaks existing code such as time crate, exposes compatibility snag with type inference 

The recent release of Rust 1.80.0 broke the very popular time crate, along with other existing code, causing […]

Microsoft previews Visual Studio 17.12 and updates .NET 9, adds HybridWebView to MAUI

Microsoft has previewed Visual Studio 2022 17.12 with numerous new features including full support for .NET 9, which […]

Go 1.23 released with telemetry uploaded to Google – but opt-in after developer feedback

Go 1.23 is out, the first major release since February, and now including telemetry for the Google-sponsored project […]

Why Kubernetes? Too many issues with the supposedly simpler AWS Elastic Container Service, says Figma

Figma software engineering manager Ian VonSeggern, has described the rationale and outcome of its migration from AWS ECS […]

20 years since open source release, here comes Ruby on Rails 7.2 with JIT compiler and more

The Ruby on Rails team has released version 7.2, with new features including YJIT (Yet Another Just-in-Time compiler) […]

Microsoft says .NET Aspire is for any app, but deployment can be complex

Hands on: Microsoft principal product manager Jon Galloway has said that .NET Aspire, a stack for building distributed […]

Npm overflowing with Tea spam, spills out from 70% of all new packages – research

Over the past six months more than 890,000 new packages (as opposed to updates for existing packages) were […]