Ruby 4.0 released – but its best new features are not production ready
Ruby 4.0 was released on 25 December, following a tradition of pushing out major versions on Christmas day, […]
Dramatic drop in Stack Overflow questions as devs look elsewhere for help
Stack Overflow, long the go-to resource for developers seeking coding help, saw its question volume plummet further in […]
GitHub to charge for self-hosted runners from March 2026
GitHub will charge $0.002 per minute for self-hosted runners (used for GitHub Actions) from March 1 2026 – […]
Cursor AI editor gets visual designer – but bugs and ever-changing UI irk developers
Anysphere’s Cursor AI editor recently added a visual web designer, but the enhancement has drawn mixed reactions from […]
Rust boosted by permanent adoption for Linux kernel code
Use of the Rust programming language in the Linux kernel is no longer experimental, following a decision at […]
VS Code update brings agent overload, TypeScript 7 preview, and the end of IntelliCode
Microsoft has updated Visual Studio Code (VS Code), the most popular programmer’s editor, with Agent HQ alongside numerous […]
Research: AI can help or hinder software development, and old-style best practices make the difference
Generative AI can write lots of code but its overall impact on developer productivity is more nuanced. Research […]
JetBrains abandons Fleet IDE, pins hopes on forthcoming Air agentic development tool
Developer tools company JetBrains is discontinuing its Fleet IDE, which was introduced in 2021 but never made it […]
AWS shows Rust love at re:Invent: 10 times faster than Kotlin, one tenth the latency of Go
At its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas last week, AWS described how it now uses Rust by default […]
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 […]