Development News, Features, and Interviews

• Gluon ships JavaFX 12

  Interim release of the rich client application platform for Java offers a long list of bug fixes

• Microsoft seeks to lure game developers to Azure

  Microsoft has brought its services for game developers under a single umbrella, dubbed Microsoft Game Stack, and launched a range of new gaming-focused Azure services.

• Coder puts Visual Studio Code in the cloud

  Developers can code on a Chromebook, tablet, or PC

• Java, meet Kubernetes and serverless computing

  Red Hat’s beta Quarkus framework aims to optimize Java development for distributed application architectures

• What is Jupyter Notebook? Data analysis made easier

  Jupyter Notebook combines live code, graphics, visualizations, and text in shareable notebooks that run in a web browser

• SAP builds its own Java distribution

  Downstream version of OpenJDK supports Windows, Linux, MacOS, and Docker

• NPM Enterprise JavaScript service released

  New features have been added to behind-the-firewall package service

• JDK 13: The new features coming to Java 13

  The late 2019 version of standard Java is tentatively slated to support raw string literals

• Java thread sanitizer project proposed once again

  If approved, the OpenJDK effort would help developers spot data race conditions in the HotSpot JVM and the JVM tool interface

• Next.js 8 now supports serverless apps

  The JavaScript and React framework also reduces build-time memory usage and speeds static export

• PyPy 7 speeds up Python 2.7, Python 3.5, and Python 3.6 alike

  The latest release of the JIT-compiling Python runtime updates support for three major versions of Python in one go

• Full-stack developer: What it is, and how you can become one

  A full-stack developer understands the entire software stack, from the GUI front end to the database back end. However, not everyone agrees on the level of mastery needed to earn the title

• Python 3 and data science top Python developer survey

  JetBrains survey shows Python 3 adoption growing and data analysis and web development to be the top Python use cases

• Cranelift library tackles WebAssembly execution

  Cranelift reads WebAssembly as input and writes native machine code as output

• Visual Studio Code is slated for a UX refresh

  Development roadmap for 2019 details improvements to startup times, the workbench, language support, debugging, and more

• JavaScript overtakes Java as most-known programming language

  HackerRank skills survey finds developers mostly know JavaScript and Java, want to learn Go, Kotlin, and Python

• Yarn package manager will be rewritten in TypeScript

  A comprehensive roadmap for Yarn 2 describes how the JavaScript package manager will become more developer-friendly

• Eclipse releases GlassFish 5.1 for Java EE 8

  Eclipse Foundation reaches a key Jakarta EE milestone with the release of its own GlassFish application server

• Python code completion gets an assist from machine learning

  Kite programming assistant makes auto-suggestions based on data collected from Python code around the web

• Ockam SDK taps blockchain-based identity services for IoT

  Ockam SDK allows developers to link IoT devices to the company’s public blockchain network for identity and trust services