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• 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.

• JavaFX 13 adds support for native rendering

  Upgrade to the rich client platform for Java allows developers to integrate technologies such as OpenGL and WebGL for powerful visualizations

• Visual Studio 2019 gains adds C++ Concepts

  Concepts allow the C++ programmer to document constraints on templates and have the compiler enforce them

• Is Java the next COBOL?

  60 years later, billions of lines of COBOL live on. Could Java, SQL, or Python last as long?

• Eclipse Jakarta EE arrives

  Two years after taking over Java EE from Oracle, the Eclipse Foundation has shipped its implementation of Java EE 8

• Work begins on Java 14

  An upgrade to file mapping byte buffers to support non-volatile memory is targeted for the next version of standard Java due in 2020

• Microsoft proposes Static TypeScript for embedded systems

  Static TypeScript is a subset of TypeScript that runs in a web browser and compiles to ARM Thumb machine code

• Jabel brings post-Java 8 features to Java 8 users

  Using the ‘annotation processor,’ developers can take advantage of the latest Java language features and still compile to Java 8 bytecode

• OpenJDK proposal would speed up Java G1 garbage collector

  A JVM flag would turn off concurrent refinement to achieve better throughput at the cost of latency for appropriate workloads

• Kubernetes-native Quarkus Java ready for testing

  Red Hat’s Quarkus project is a small-footprint Java stack designed for container-based, cloud-native applications

• Kotlin 1.4 to improve null-check capabilities

  The Kotlin Foundation also released Kotlin 1.3.50, which focuses on APIs and NPM dependencies

• Ruffle project hopes to resurrect Flash Player

  The project uses Rust and WebAssembly to allow playback of Flash media more securely than the original Adobe player

• Ruby on Rails 6.0 adds rich text capabilities

  JavaScript, database support also get nods

• Creating the correct DevOps culture: Failure is a part of the success

  At its core, DevOps is a practice rooted in culture and philosophy. It takes time to develop and master, and for all its benefits, it’s also prone to disaster.

• Microsoft buys jClarity to boost Java on Azure

  With its acquisition of Java support services company jClarity, Microsoft is making a play to optimise Java workloads on its Azure cloud platform.

• PHP plus: P++ proposal would create a stricter dialect

  It's not a fork, but a stricter version that could leave compatibility baggage behind and add new features more easily

• 7 sweet Python IDEs you might have missed

  From simple toolkits for beginners to full-featured workbenches for experts, there’s an IDE here for most every Pythonista

• NPM: Free public JavaScript registry will continue

  Company says the free NPM package registry is here to stay, releases security upgrade for NPM Enterprise

• NetBeans 11.1 adds Java EE 8 support

  Quarterly NetBeans release brings Java EE 8 support for Maven and Gradle apps, updates integration with Payara and GlassFish