Development News, Features, and Interviews

• Sourcetrail code navigator now free open source

  Sourcetrail indexes source files to create a dependency graph, giving developers a graphical overview of their code

• ‘Privacy first’ Brave browser exits beta

  By blocking trackers, invasive ads, and device fingerprinting by default, the open source browser had drawn protest from content publishers

• Bytecode Alliance focuses on WebAssembly outside the browser

  Mozilla and partners will collaborate on secure foundations for WebAssembly runtimes and language tooling

• OpenJDK repo migration to GitHub gains steam

  A formal OpenJDK proposal calls for migrating Java source code repositories to the popular code-hosting platform

• Red Hat’s Quarkus Java stack moves toward production release

  Quarkus is a fast, lightweight, Kubernetes-native Java stack for building serverless and microservices applications

• Microsoft previews Visual Studio Online

  Cloud-based development environments can be accessed via web browser, Visual Studio Code, or Visual Studio 2019

• Microsoft to participate in open source Java

  Microsoft has joined the OpenJDK project to contribute small bug fixes and backports and learn how to be good Java citizens.

• Google App Engine adds support for Java 11

  The Java 11 runtime is now generally available on App Engine, supporting twice the amount of memory as Java 8

• Visual Studio Code updates Java support

  Microsoft’s code editor adds new code navigation, code actions, code snippets, and refactoring features, along with Java 13 support

• Agile starts with leadership, not a textbook

  Embracing agile ways of working at SiteMinder, which for years had established itself as a global market leader through technical innovation and pace-to-market, has represented a fundamental shift in how we work.

• Firefox adds a WebSocket inspector

  New tool in Firefox DevTools allows you to inspect WebSocket traffic to troubleshoot connection problems

• JSON tools you don’t want to miss

  Developers can choose from many great free and online tools for JSON formatting, validating, editing, and converting to other formats

• Facebook’s Hydra aims to simplify Python development

  Open source framework replaces boilerplate code in complex apps with the ability to compose and override configurations

• TypeScript 3.7 beta debuts with optional chaining

  Next TypeScript version will include a highly requested ECMAScript feature for dealing with null and undefined values

• Sun Microsystems founders celebrate legacy

  At a recent Sun reunion, founders Scott McNealy and Bill Joy weigh in on machine learning, mobile, Facebook, and politics in tech

• 10 software development cults to join

  Because programming is more fun when we take things to the extreme and obsess about the ‘right way’ to write code

• What is JavaScript? JavaScript and ECMAScript, explained

  The most popular programming language in the world started out in the browser but now runs everywhere

• Software jobs pay twice the national average

  Software.org report finds software jobs not only pay twice as much, but are growing at twice the rate of US jobs overall

• Oracle pits GraalVM against Google Go

  Oracle touts the fast startup and small memory footprint of the polyglot VM, which will soon be upgraded to Java 11

• 'One big happy family': How Pivotal will fit back into VMware

  VMware recently reached an agreement to acquire fellow Dell EMC family member Pivotal, the vendor it helped spin out back in 2012.