Tim Anderson
Amazon now the most popular Java Development Kit vendor for production, says observability survey
A new “State of the Java ecosystem” survey by observability company New Relic states that the Amazon JDK […]
AWS CodeWhisperer AI coder now generally available, remains free for individual developers
AWS has released CodeWhisperer, its AI coding assistant, to general availability. CodeWhisperer is the company’s equivalent to GitHub […]
Preview of ahead of time compilation in ASP.NET Core shows big gains, big compatibility issues
Microsoft has released preview 3 of .NET 8, the forthcoming LTS (Long term support) release expected in November […]
Don’t call it Rust: Community complains about draft trademark policy restricting use of ‘word marks’
Updated: A proposed new trademark policy drafted by the Rust Foundation, which owns the Rust and Cargo trademarks, […]
Interview: the story behind Slint 1.0 – a new cross-platform GUI toolkit coded in Rust
The Slint team has released version 1.0 of its cross-platform GUI toolkit, implemented in Rust and with additional […]
Microsoft to fix longstanding issues with Identity in .NET, drops dependency on commercial IdentityServer
The forthcoming .Net 8 will fix key issues in ASP.NET Core identity libraries, including removing a dependency on […]
Google’s confusing pitch for WebAssembly as a ‘new dawn of expanded functionality’
Google’s Thomas Nattestad, product manager for V8 and WebAssembly (Wasm), has posted on the Chromium blog about the […]
Microsoft updates Visual Studio Code, previews Copilot Chat and a Python-writing Data Wrangler
Along with a Visual Studio Code update to version 1.77, Microsoft has previewed fresh features including a Data […]
How personalization crashed BBC iPlayer at the height of lockdown, and how it was fixed
Manisha Lopes, principal software engineer at the BBC, spoke to developers at QCon London this week, describing how […]
Wasm-based Spin 1.0 released to address ‘limitations of serverless’
Fermyon has released Spin 1.0, the first stable version of its open source tool for compiling applications to […]