Category: Development Software

September 13, 2021

This week’s Java roundup for September 6th, 2021, features news from Jakarta EE 10 introducing a new core profile, JEP 417, JDK 18, Open Liberty 21.0.0.10-beta, Payara August 2021 Roadmap Update webinar, Quarkus 2.2.2.Final, a new Micronaut Java library, Hibernate […]

August 30, 2021

ReScript is one of several emerging programming languages that helps web developers build complex web applications that can be transpiled into JavaScript and run in the browser. JavaScript usage has changed drastically over the past 25 years. However, while the […]

August 26, 2021

Today’s web applications are nowhere near as fast and responsive as native desktop applications, but what if they could be? That’s the promise of WebAssembly. WebAssembly is a low-level, assembly-like language with a compact binary format that runs with near-native […]

August 25, 2021

Python is best thought of as a “dynamic, but strongly typed” language. Types aren’t associated with the names for things, but with the things themselves. This makes Python flexible and convenient for developers, because you don’t have to rigorously define […]

August 24, 2021

OpenAI released their newest language, Triton. This open-source programming language that enables researchers to write highly efficient GPU code for AI workloads is Python-compatible and allows new users to achieve expert-quality results in only 25 lines of code. Triton uses […]

August 23, 2021

The vast number of news outlets in print, TV, and radio and the Internet can be overwhelming. So developers looking to captivate news consumers with a streamlined application need to discovery News APIs that are suitable for their use. What […]

August 20, 2021

Java 18 is likely seven months away but is already starting to take shape, with two feature proposals for it so far: record and array patterns and character sets. While the OpenJDK page for Java Development Kit (JDK) 18 lists […]

August 19, 2021

.NET 6, the planned upgrade to Microsoft’s software development platform, boasts performance improvements in areas ranging from just-in-time (JiT) compilation and garbage collection (GC) to JSON, according to Microsoft. In a lengthy blog post published August 17, Steven Toub, a […]

August 18, 2021

Python is my bread-and-butter, and I love it. Even though I’ve got some points of criticism against the language, I strongly recommend it for anybody starting out in data science. More experienced people in the field tend to be Python-evangelists […]

August 18, 2021

Go 1.17, the latest release of the open source, Google-developed programming language, is now available as a production release, with changes intended to simplify coding for safety. Go 1.17 was published on August 16. Release notes cite three small enhancements […]