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TypeScript 4.3 brings type specification for properties

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Microsoft’s Java build turns GA

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Visual Studio 2019 upgrade brings C++ 20 support

Microsoft said its compiler and standard library are feature-complete for C++ 20 in Visual Studio 2019 16.10, while a 16.11 preview centers on Hot Reload and .NET MAUI.

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What’s new in Microsoft .NET 6

.NET 6 Preview 4 features Hot Reload improvements, RyuJIT compiler and runtime performance boosts, and early builds of MAUI, the multi-platform UI support based on Xamarin.

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Eclipse Jakarta EE 9.1 aligns with Java 11

Jakarta Enterprise Edition 9.1 allows developers to use Java SE 11 features in Jakarta EE applications and migrate Jakarta EE apps to Java SE 11 without changes.

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JDK 17: The new features in Java 17

Always-strict floating point semantics, a foreign function and memory API, and a uniform API for pseudo random number generators are planned for the Java long-term support release due in September.

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Google preps new web platform APIs

New APIs for app launching, file handling, page prerendering, graphical transitions, and GPU support will first become available as Chrome origin trial experiments.

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Google unveils DevTools extension for Angular

Angular DevTools is a new Chrome extension that provides debugging and profiling capabilities for Angular applications.

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Google Flutter gains sound null safety, payments plug-in

Version 2.2 of the UI toolkit for building Android, iOS, Linux, Windows, macOS, web, and embedded applications was unveiled this week.

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Google Vertex AI unifies cloud machine learning toolkit

Vertex AI brings together all of the Google Cloud services for building machine learning under one unified UI and API.

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Rust 2021 edition promises better ‘feel’

Third edition of the Rust programming language tees up a number of small changes expected to significantly improve the developer experience.

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Scala 3 ushers in ‘complete overhaul’ of the language

The latest upgrade of the popular functional language for JVM and JavaScript runtimes features a new type system, new language features, and scads of syntax improvements.

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Angular 12 arrives with pile of improvements

Upgrade of Google’s TypeScript-based web framework brings enhancements to performance, the compiler, form validation, the language service, and much more.

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Python’s creators unveil speedup plans for Python

Incremental improvements are on the way that promise to speed up Python by a factor of 2x to 5x, and remain compatible with existing code.

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Deno 1.10 overhauls test runner

Latest version of the JavaScript and TypeScript runtime introduces the ability to run test modules in isolation, along with other testing improvements.

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Babel project is running out of money

The core team behind the open source JavaScript compiler seek corporate sponsors to fund the continued development of the project.

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What’s new in Rust 1.52

Rust was designed to make it easy to develop fast and safe system-level software. Here’s what’s new.

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Kotlin 1.5.0 arrives with JVM records, sealed interfaces

Kotlin upgrade also stabilizes the JVM IR compiler and APIs for unsigned integer types and their functions.

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Visual Studio Code 1.56 improves hover feedback, debugging

April 2021 release of Microsoft’s open source code editor also improves Docker support for remote development scenarios.

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Instagram open sources high-performance Python fork

By making the Cinder project publicly available, the company wants to open conversation about upstreaming its performance optimizations to standard Python.

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