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Microsoft’s strongly typed JavaScript is now in the release candidate stage, featuring error reporting for variables that were never initialized.
Debugging and productivity improvements also feature in the latest release of Microsoft’s signature IDE, built for .NET 9.
Cloud-native apps, AI-enabled apps, ASP.NET Core, Aspire, Blazor, MAUI, C#, and F# all get boosts with the latest major rev of the .NET platform.
Google-developed Go has reached an all time high ranking of seventh in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity.
OpenJDK proposals would provide Java implementations of a quantum-resistant module-latticed-based digital signature algorithm and key encapsulation mechanism.
PipelineDP4j, an ‘out-of-the-box’ solution for analyzing data sets in Apache Beam and Apache Spark in a privacy-preserving way, is intended to be usable by all developers.
Python has become the most popular programming language on GitHub, while the use of Jupyter Notebooks has also soared, according to GitHub’s Octoverse 2024 report.
Key priorities include more efficient data handling, increased abstraction, and enhanced performance for the Kotlin language and faster code completion in the K2-based IntelliJ IDEA plugin.
New licenses make JetBrains’ JavaScript/TypeScript and .NET/game development environments free to use for open-source projects and other non-commercial purposes.
High-performance Rust-based Turbopack bundler moves from beta to stable with the latest update of the React-based web framework.