React 19 introduced, and 'Forget' compiler is now in production at Instagram – but not yet widely available

Development Tim Anderson -
The React team has described the React Compiler as “no longer a research project,” and has introduced features of React…

Visual Studio’s new extensibility model improves, yet frustrates devs with long preview and limited capability

Development Tim Anderson -
Microsoft’s refreshed out-of-process extensibility model for Visual Studio - still in preview - now supports publication of extensions in the…

Javalin 6: a lightweight alternative to Spring Boot, now with virtual threads off by default

Development Tim Anderson -
The open source Javalin project released version 6 last month, a major update to this popular lightweight web framework. Changes…

From Docker to Dagger: Solomon Hykes on modernisation of the DevOps pipeline

CI/CD Tim Anderson -
Solomon Hykes, who started the original Docker project in 2010 and co-founded the Docker company in 2011, has spent the…

Preserving the magic of free: new types of licenses will not solve open source business model, says Percona founder

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A new type of license will not solve the business model of open source, Percona founder Peter Zaitsev told Dev…

Rust Foundation interview: 'We need more maintainers. We need more contributors' 

Development Tim Anderson -
The Rust ecosystem needs more maintainers and contributors, according to Rust Foundation Executive Director and CEO Dr Rebecca Rumbul. Dr…

jQuery 4.0 hits beta, with reduced support for Internet Explorer and breaking changes

Development Tim Anderson -
The jQuery team has released version 4.0 beta. Support for Internet Explorer (IE) 10 and lower has been dropped, and the team has warned of breaking changes. IE support will be dropped completely in version 5.0, when it arrives several years from now.

Hey Code: Visual Studio Code now supports voice sessions as well as configurable auto-save and other updates

Development Tim Anderson -
Microsoft's Visual Studio Code, the most popular code editor by most measures, has introduced voice sessions – though only for…

Agile process can spur micromanagement and poorly maintained code, says ex-Google software engineer

Development Tim Anderson -
A former Google software engineer and architect, in a book on software quality, states that Agile methodology can often become…

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