Akamai buys Fermyon for Wasm-based serverless functions – a possible answer to Cloudflare workers
Akamai, a long-established content delivery network (CDN) company, has acquired WebAssembly start-up Fermyon, with the aim of attracting […]
Bun JavaScript runtime acquired by Anthropic, tying its future to AI coding
The Bun JavaScript runtime has been acquired by Anthropic, which already uses the product for deploying Claude Code. […]
Zig project ditches GitHub for Codeberg but move could be costly
The Zig project is migrating from GitHub to Codeberg, a non-profit Git hosting company based in Berlin, Germany, […]
Google’s Chromium team decides it will add JPEG XL support, reverses ‘obsolete’ declaration
The Google Chromium team, responsible for the browser engine used in Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera and more, has […]
Copilot .Net modernization tool a ‘huge downgrade,’ devs say – and no longer free
A post describing how to use GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio to migrate a .Net Framework application to […]
We take a look at Google’s Antigravity: Agentic AI development but some frustrations for early adopters
Google has previewed Antigravity, a new IDE forked from the open source base of Visual Studio Code, described […]
Google VP of development explains how ‘citizen developers’ must be tempered by the pros
At Google’s London Summit last week, developer news included three new AI-related features in Firebase Studio, a browser-based […]
Hands on with Kiro, the AWS preview of an agentic AI IDE driven by specifications
AWS has previewed Kiro, a fork of Code OSS (the open-source part of Visual Studio Code) which promotes […]
Microsoft shovels extra Copilot features into VS Code amid dev complaints of ‘more AI bloat’
Microsoft has updated Visual Studio Code (VS Code) to version 1.102 with another bundle of Copilot features including […]
Despite 30 months work, core developer says Python’s JIT compiler is often slower than the interpreter
Ken Jin, a CPython core developer who works on the experimental JIT (just in time) compiler optimizer, says […]