Development News, Features, and Interviews

• Vue JavaScript CLI tool apps gets a rewrite

  Vue 3 is intended to reduce configuration “fatigue” of front-end tools

• React Native JavaScript framework stumbles

  Airbnb and Udacity bow out of Facebook’s mobile framework while Discord and Walmart forge ahead

• What is continuous integration (CI): Faster, better software development

  Code changes are integrated frequently and then use automation to validate the build and functionality

• ML.Net aims to provide machine learning for .Net developers

  Microsoft's new machine learning framework promises high-level APIs to make model training and predictions easy, along with strong integration of .Net language features

• Python scales language popularity charts

  Already tops in the IEEE and PyPL rankings, Python could soon conquer the Tiobe index too

• Fusion.js JavaScript framework is geared to lightweight apps

  Uber’s Fusion.js offers code reuse on both the server and browser and works with libraries such as React and Redux

• What is WebAssembly? The next-generation web platform explained

  Learn how WebAssembly is bringing near-native performance to the browser, by allowing devs to build high-speed web apps in the language of their choice

• Git might replace Mercurial for Java’s source-code management

  Project Skara would provide prototypes for hosting Java Development Kit (JDK) 12

• Microsoft brings Python coding help beyond Visual Studio

  The beta extension is available now, with the full Python Language Server implementation due by 2019

• Oracle: Switch now from Nashorn JavaScript engine to GraalVM

  Oracle says GraalVM is more capable than Nashorn, and it has laid out a migration path from Nashorn to GraalVM

• Why Australia has an opportunity to lead the way on AI regulation

  We are on the cusp of a fourth industrial revolution with advances in AI continuing at a rapid pace. Yet despite its promise, Australian businesses are hesitating to embrace AI, fuelled by misunderstandings and misapprehensions. These have only been exacerbated by the recent headlines of misuse of personal data by tech giants.

• Delaware to test blockchain-based business filing system

  More than half of all U.S. publicly-traded companies – and two-thirds of Fortune 500 firms – are incorporated in Delaware because of its business-friendly laws and well-established corporate legal precedence.

• Guide Dogs Victoria to prototype AI assistant for blind people

  Guide Dogs Victoria (GDV) is planning to build a Siri-style platform designed specifically to cater to the needs of blind and low-vision people.

• How Just Eat runs devops at scale

  UK-based food delivery company Just Eat runs a hugely complex devops culture across 35 software development teams in five geographies, working together to maintain 450 microservices.

• Oracle now requires a subscription to use Java SE

  One-time licenses won’t be available for Java SE 8 or later, but separate support contracts also go away

• An introduction to containers and microservices for enterprise leaders

  Containers currently make up about 19 percent of hybrid cloud production workloads today, but in just two years’ time this will increase to around 33 percent. In particular, microservices are being increasingly employed in the finance sector, with NAB CEO Andrew Thorburn recently saying they are “resilient, reusable, flexible and proven”.

• Mastercard tech chief: Every company should emulate Netflix

  As the financial services giant Mastercard continues to adapt to ever-changing consumer demands, the head of technology at the company has urged all companies to emulate Netflix when it comes to innovation.

• Google App Maker low-code tool debuts for G Suite users

  App Maker uses templates for building UIs, which can be assembled via drag-and-drop

• Jetpack promises simple R package management

  Jetpack’s goal is to make dependency management in R as easy as it is with Ruby’s Bundler and JavaScript’s Yarn package managers

• Nashorn JavaScript engine for JVM could be axed

  By removing Nashorn, some applications may no longer run because of an expectation of JavaScript’s presence