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Microsoft Dev Drive launched for developers

Tuesday, July 15, 2025 by Richard Harris

Microsoft has announced the launch of Dev Drive, a new storage volume designed to meet the performance, security, and control needs of developers. Built on the Resilient File System (ReFS) and combined with a new performance mode capability in Microsoft Defender Antivirus, Dev Drive delivers up to 30% faster build times compared to the current Windows 11 (22H2) configur...

Swift Project Launches Android Workgroup

Monday, July 14, 2025 by Austin Harris

The Swift programming language community has announced the formation of the Android Workgroup, a new initiative dedicated to making Android an officially supported platform for Swift. This landmark development marks a significant step forward in Swift's evolution as a truly cross-platform language for modern software development. Swift Project Launches Android Wo...

How 27 programming languages differ in energy consumption

Monday, July 14, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield

A research team from Portugal has conducted a comprehensive study analyzing how different programming languages impact energy consumption, execution time, and memory usage. Their findings were published in the paper Energy Efficiency Across Programming Languages, as reported by technology news outlet The New Stack. The Most Energy-Efficient Programming Languages Reve...

Infragistics launches major updates

Thursday, June 26, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger

Infragistics announced the launch of Infragistics Ultimate 25.1, the company's flagship UX and UI product. The enhanced Infragistics Ultimate UI/UX toolkit offers a comprehensive library of enterprise-grade UI controls and includes the exclusive low-code WYSIWYG App Builder for developing modern, high-performance, and engaging apps across major frameworks. F...

CodeRabbit now available on Visual Studio Code

Tuesday, May 20, 2025 by Richard Harris

CodeRabbit is now available on the popular Visual Studio Code editor. The integration brings CodeRabbit’s AI code reviews directly into Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code at the earliest stages of software development—inside the code editor itself - at no cost to the developers. This new support enhances CodeRabbit’s multi-layered review approach: contin...

Nutrient expands their cloud based services

Monday, April 28, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger

Nutrient has announced a significant expansion of its cloud-based services, as well as a series of updates to its SDK products, aimed at enhancing the developer experience by allowing developers to build, scale, and innovate with less friction. These new tools are designed to help developers streamline day-to-day workflows, leverage more deployment options, and deliver ...

API Manager from WSO2 advances developer productivity

Monday, May 6, 2024 by Richard Harris

Software developers face growing demands to deliver innovative new digital experiences faster, but those experiences are often based on a complex web of data, processes, services and APIs that need to be woven together. WSO2 is helping developers to streamline their efforts and increase productivity with the introduction of new capabilities for WSO2 API Manager, WSO2 AP...

Detect hard coded secrets with new capabilities from Cycode

Thursday, August 10, 2023 by Freeman Lightner

Cycode announced the expansion of its hard-coded secrets detection in cloud-based workplaces, as well as a collaboration with Azure DevOps pipelines to ensure end-to-end supply chain integrity and a new IDE plug-in for seamless integration with VS Code. Building upon its existing code-to-cloud coverage, Cycode now extends its secrets scanning capabilities to encompas...

.NET Core 3.0 is here

Wednesday, September 25, 2019 by Richard Harris

Microsoft has announced the release of .NET Core 3.0. It includes many improvements, including adding Windows Forms and WPF, adding new JSON APIs, support for ARM64 and improving performance across the board. C# 8 is also part of this release, which includes nullable, async streams, and more patterns. F# 4.7 is included and focused on relaxing syntax and targeting .NET ...

Ballerina cloud native programming language launches

Friday, September 13, 2019 by Richard Harris

The growth of digital services, mobile apps, and connected devices are creating an explosion of endpoints, from APIs to events, data streams, microservices, serverless apps, and other digital assets. Developers today need a more modern and agile approach to connect to these endpoints than a traditional centralized enterprise service bus (ESB) can offer. Ballerina 1.0, n...

Google Flutter comes out of Beta to help speed up native development

Tuesday, December 18, 2018 by Richard Harris

For cross-platform mobile development, developers generally have to choose between either building the same app multiple times for multiple operating systems, or to accept a solution that trades native speed and accuracy for portability. Flutter provides a solution that gives developers the best of both worlds: hardware-accelerated graphics and UI, powered by native ARM...

Pythonpowered machine learning with Anaconda and MS partnership

Monday, October 2, 2017 by Austin Harris

Anaconda, Inc. has announced it is partnering with Microsoft to embed Anaconda into Azure Machine Learning, Visual Studio and SQL Server to deliver data insights in real time. Microsoft and Anaconda will partner to deliver Anaconda for Microsoft, a subset of the Anaconda distribution available on Windows, MacOS and Linux. Anaconda, Inc. will also offer a range of suppor...

Sencha opens up about SenchaCon, developer challenges, and platform updates

Tuesday, November 29, 2016 by Richard Harris

Sencha, a company that provides developers with frameworks, tools and services to help them build cross-platform web application experiences, recently held its sixth user conference SenchaCon, the largest universal application event in the world. We caught up with Sencha’s CEO Art Landro to learn more about two announcements the company made at SenchaCon: an enhanc...

Microsoft is Bringing Facebook's Open Source React Native to Windows

Friday, April 15, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson

Among the announcements at Facebook’s F8 developer conference was the continuation of the company’s efforts with its open source React Native platform for building iOS and Android interfaces. Included in the announcement is the news that Microsoft is bringing React Native to the Windows ecosystem, giving developers the ability to build React Native on Windows PC, P...

What is New in the Recent Release of Visual Studio 2015

Friday, July 24, 2015 by Richard Harris

Microsoft just released the highly anticipated Visual Studio 2015 just in advance of the impending Microsoft 10 release. Here is a rundown on what’s new for VS 2015:Cross-platform mobile device support - Android, iOS, and WindowsOut of the box, Visual Studio allows developers to use web technologies to build production quality mobile apps for iOS, Android and Windows us...