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What is Python? Powerful, intuitive programming

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What’s new in Microsoft Visual Studio Code 1.40

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Android Studio 4.0 backs native UI toolkit

Now available in a preview release, the Android Studio 4.0 ‘Canary’ upgrade works with the JetPack Compose UI toolkit and improves Java 8 support

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DeepCode taps AI for code reviews

Cloud service analyzes commits to GitHub or Bitbucket and flags security, performance, logic, and compliance issues

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Visual Studio Code updates Java support

Microsoft’s code editor adds new code navigation, code actions, code snippets, and refactoring features, along with Java 13 support

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Visual Studio Code extensions for Docker and Kubernetes

Going cloud native? These VS Code extensions help smooth the way to building and running container-based apps locally or in the cloud

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Google Bazel builds and tests Bazel 1.0

Open source build tool brings fast incremental builds to multiple languages, multiple platforms, and large code bases

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JSON tools you don’t want to miss

Developers can choose from many great free and online tools for JSON formatting, validating, editing, and converting to other formats

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What’s the Go language really good for?

Understand the strengths, weaknesses, use cases, and future directions of Google's hit programming language

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LLVM 9.0.0 arrives with major improvements

LLVM compiler infrastructure project delivers optimizations for memory, pattern matching, and C++

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Nim language reaches 1.0 status

Compiled, statically-typed systems programming language prizes efficiency, readability, and flexibility

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Visual Studio Code vs. Sublime Text: How to choose

Do you want a maximum-flexible editor with just the right IDE features, or the fastest and most efficient editor you can find? You can have both

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Rust vs. Go: How to choose

Do you want execution speed or developer speed? Memory safety or easy concurrency? How to decide between Rust and Go

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Visual Studio Code vs. Visual Studio: How to choose

Deciding between Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio may depend as much on your work style as on the language support and features you need. Here’s how to decide

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Golang 1.13 adds number literal prefixes

Go language extensions should make it easier for programmers to move between Go and other C-family languages

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7 Visual Studio Code extensions you didn’t know you needed

These surprising Visual Studio Code extensions are useful in all sorts of ways — apart from writing and editing code

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CloudBees readies software delivery management, Jenkins X via SaaS

The SaaS services are an attempt to commercialize and expand its CI/CD tools

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7 sweet Python IDEs you might have missed

From a simple platform for beginners to an expert-level development workbench, there's an IDE for most every Pythonista

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5 machine learning tools to ease software development

AI-driven development tools that provide code auto-completion, code vulnerability detection, and even cutting-edge code generation

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How to use the Dapper ORM in C#

Take advantage of the lightweight, open source Dapper to simplify data access and ensure high performance

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