TypeScript 5.8 reaches general availability
Microsoft’s TypeScript 5.8, the latest version of the company’s strongly typed superset of JavaScript, has reached general availability (GA). However, one new feature introduced at the beta stage, a limited form of checking against conditional typ...
The most relevant new features in JDK 24
Since 2018, we’ve had a new release of the Java platform every six months. With Swiss watch-like regularity, the latest version of Java, JDK 24, is upon us. In an almost poetic way, JDK 24 contains 24 JDK Enhancement Proposals (JEPs), the largest nu...
How eBPF is changing container networking
“No man is an island,” wrote John Donne. But containers certainly are. They are created as islands in and of themselves, packaged with all they need to operate independently—code, dependencies, and runtime. This autonomy is great for security bu...
Who needs Google technology? Probably not you
Clearly Google is doing something right. Although Google Cloud’s revenue still lags AWS and Microsoft Azure, it’s growing much faster (albeit on a smaller base). But that’s not the real story of its growth. The story is that it’s growing at al...
TrapC proposal to fix C/C++ memory safety
TrapC, a fork of the C language, is being developed as a potential solution for memory safety issues that have hindered the C and C++ languages. TrapC is a proposed C-language extension compiler intended to be implemented as a cybersecurity compiler f...
Rust 1.85 arrives with long-awaited async closures
Rust 1.85, the latest version of the burgeoning language positioned for speed, safety, and ease of use, has arrived, with new capabilities including async closures. The release also constitutes a stabilization of the Rust 2024 edition of the language....
Google’s AlloyDB is looking more and more like PostgreSQL
Google is adding new features to its fully managed database-as-a-service (DBaaS) AlloyDB in order to provide enterprises with an alternative to PostgreSQL, which has become the most popular choice when transitioning from legacy database management sys...
Do more with Python’s new built-in async programming library
There’s lots to do in this edition of the Python Report: Do more than one thing with Python’s async. Do the math faster in Python with NumPy. Do Python in Visual Studio Code, and do it the right way with our get-started guide. And do use Python’...
The rising threat of shadow AI
Employees in a large financial organization began developing AI tools to automate time-consuming tasks such as weekly report generation. They didn’t think about what could go wrong. Within a few months, unauthorized applications skyrocketed from jus...
DeepSeek offers steep discounts, escalating AI price war
Chinese AI firm DeepSeek has unveiled a significant price reduction for developers using its AI models, a move that could intensify competition among both domestic and global rivals. On its website, the Hangzhou-based startup said that from 16:30 UTC ...
Understanding thread synchronization in C#
The C# programming language has provided support for thread synchronization since its earliest versions. Synchronization is used to prevent multiple threads from accessing a shared resource concurrently or invoking the properties or methods of an obje...
What’s next for Microsoft’s Semantic Kernel?
At the heart of Microsoft’s AI application development strategy is Semantic Kernel, an open source set of tools for managing and orchestrating AI prompts. Since its launch as a way to simplify building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applicatio...
What’s next for Microsoft’s Semantic Kernel
At the heart of Microsoft’s AI application development strategy is Semantic Kernel, an open source set of tools for managing and orchestrating AI prompts. Since its launch as a way to simplify building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applicatio...
Microsoft’s .NET 10 arrives in first preview
Microsoft has rolled out the first preview of .NET 10, a major new version of the company’s flagship software development platform. Likely to arrive as a production release in November, .NET 10 introduces C# 14 and adds major enhancements to the .NE...
Get started with async in Python
Asynchronous programming, or async, is a feature of many modern languages that allows a program to juggle multiple operations without waiting or getting hung up on any one of them. It’s a smart way to efficiently handle tasks like network or file I/...
Plug-and-play web development with Astro
Astro is a full-stack JavaScript meta-framework that orchestrates reactive view technologies like React and Svelte. While there are numerous meta-frameworks (examples include Next.js and Remix), Astro is unique in uniting the features and components o...
11 rules for writing better code
You can’t develop software and manage software projects for 30 years and not learn a thing or two or twelve about writing good code. Here are a near-dozen nuggets of coding wisdom I picked up along the way. Simpler is better This basic idea almost g...
