Paul Krill
Editor at Large
Paul Krill is an editor at large at InfoWorld, focusing on coverage of application development (desktop and mobile) and core web technologies such as Java.
PHP 8.0 arrives with union types, JIT compilation
Major PHP upgrade also features named arguments and attributes, for including structured metadata in classes, functions, methods, and more
Kotlin adds dynamic method invocation for JVM
Experimental feature in Kotlin 1.4.20 allows string concatenations to be compiled into dynamic invocations for JDK 9 or later targets
What’s new in Rust 1.48
Rust was designed to make it easy to develop fast and safe system-level software. Here’s what’s new.
TypeScript 4.1 arrives with template literal types
The template literal type has the same syntax as template literal strings in JavaScript except it is used in type positions
Servo browser engine adopted by Linux Foundation
Rust-based project that originated at Mozilla is intended to provide a high-performance, safe rendering web engine for embedding in other applications
Red Hat Quarkus Java stack moves to OpenShift
The Quarkus framework allows developers to build Kubernetes-native Java applications, now on OpenShift
Mozilla Firefox boosts JavaScript performance
On by default in Firefox 83, the Warp update to the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine improves responsiveness and memory usage and speeds up page loads
What’s new in Angular 11
Highlights of the latest upgrade to the Google-developed web framework include stricter types, router performance improvements, and automatic font inlining
Microsoft .NET 5 arrives with C# 9, F# 5
New platform moves toward the unification of the .NET development experience across desktop, web, mobile, cloud, and IoT targets
JetBrains releases desktop UI framework for Kotlin
Based on Google’s Jetpack Compose for Android, JetBrains’ Jetpack Compose for Desktop takes a declarative and reactive approach to creating user interfaces with Kotlin
Visual Studio Code 1.51 brings workbench improvements
While this latest edition is considered a housekeeping release, it does introduce navigation enhancements to both the workbench and the terminal
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