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 […]
Single Page Applications? Time to move on says Remix co-founder at QCon
At the QCon developer conference in London, Kent C Dodds, a software engineer who co-founded Remix software described […]
Microsoft’s Leslie Miley, technical advisor to the CTO, warns devs of both bias in AI and its environmental cost
QCon London kicked off this week, opening with a sombre keynote from Leslie Miley, Microsoft technical advisor to […]
Despite OpenJDK, 70% of Java fixes and features come from Oracle, Big Red says
Oracle has released Java 20, and says that since Java 11 in 2018 it has contributed over 70% […]