Visual Studio Code adds port forwarding
Built-in port forwarding system allows developers to share locally running services over the internet with other users.
Stories by Paul Krill
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Bun 1.0 is out of the oven
All-in-one toolkit for building, testing, debugging, and running JavaScript and TypeScript is available in a production-ready release.
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IBM unveils generative AI foundation models
IBM Granite series foundation models apply generative AI to natural language and coding tasks. Plus, Watsonx generative AI capabilities are coming to the Watsonx data lakehouse.
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GitHub Enterprise Server 3.10 ups control, security
GitHub Projects planning tool is now generally available.
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Developers have doubts about WebAssembly, report finds
State of WebAssembly 2023 study finds mostly optimism among software developers about future adoption of Wasm, but also doubts and challenges.
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Node.js upgrade adds environment variable config
The JavaScript runtime also boasts ECMAScript modules.
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Cosmonic touts life-cycle management in WebAssembly PaaS
The platform was built on wasmCloud for multifaceted app deployment for the cloud, browser, edge, and other platforms.
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Rust changes Cargo package guidance
Rust’s Cargo team used to recommend committing Cargo.lock for files with binaries but not libraries, but now says do what is best for your project.
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Azul Java learns to cut warmup times
Azul’s ReadyNow technology learns from application usage and automatically selects the best warmup optimisation patterns, the company said.
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Microsoft axes Visual Studio for Mac
Alternatives are cited such as C# Dev Kit, Microsoft Dev Box cloud service
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OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Enterprise
Generative AI chatbot designed for use inside organisations offers enterprise-grade security and privacy, unlimited access to GPT-4, up to 2x better performance, larger context and prompt windows, and customisation options.
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More developers are using the Rust language
2022 State of Rust Survey finds that Rust language usage continues to grow, though some developers find the language difficult and worry that it will become too complex.
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Meta releases Code Llama LLM for coding
Code Llama is a specialised version of the Llama 2 large language model that has been fine-tuned for generating and discussing code.
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Python-based Textual apps are coming to the web
Textual Cloud Service will allow Python-based terminal applications built with the Textual framework to run in web browsers.
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Swift language group gets behind structured concurrency
Swift Server Workgroup also aims to port the popular Swift toolchain installer for Linux to macOS and Windows.
