Development News, Features, and Interviews

• Survey reveals most-used CSS features and tools

  State of CSS 2019 report details which CSS features and tools developers use, which they don’t use, and which they prefer

• Python popularity reaches an all-time high

  At the current pace of growth, Tiobe estimates Python could surpass Java and C in popularity in three to four years

• QuantumBlack open sources its data analytics framework

  A new open source framework that aims to make building machine learning pipelines easier for data scientists was released today by QuantumBlack, the data analytics outfit snapped up by McKinsey in 2015 and that has its roots in data work for Formula 1 racing teams.

• Salesforce open sources Lightning Web Components

  Lightning Web Components combines W3C standard Web Components and an HTML templating system

• Pivotal answers Oracle with supported Java distribution

  Pivotal Spring Runtime includes ongoing updates and support for Pivotal’s OpenJDK distribution, Spring Java projects, and Apache Tomcat

• 4 factors to ruin your serverless migration

  As more and more companies embark on their digital transformation journey, organisations need to upgrade and evolve their infrastructure technology to maintain a competitive edge.

• Dubbo Java RPC project graduates to Apache top level status

  High-performance, lightweight RPC framework offers fault tolerance, load balancing, runtime routing, and automatic service registration and discovery

• TypeScript 3.5 fixes ‘unbearably slow’ type-checking bug

  New release candidate addresses regression in TypeScript 3.4 that impacts build times and editor operations

• Swift meets WebAssembly in SwiftWasm project

  Project aims to integrate a WebAssembly back-end into the Swift compiler, allowing Swift developers to build apps for the web browser

• Microsoft unveils full-stack web templates for Visual Studio Code

  Wizard-driven Web Template Studio extension for VS Code speeds creation of web apps with React, Node, and Azure services

• 3 ways serverless is a game changer

  The dream of serverless is to enable companies to focus on making their application work, rather than getting tied up with managing infrastructure.

• Why we need to merge DevOps and cyber security

  Cyber attacks are rising in frequency, complexity and impact as savvy attackers take advantage of security risks to infiltrate enterprise infrastructure.

• Oracle steers GraalVM to the enterprise

  GraalVM Enterprise brings performance and security extras to the shared runtime supporting JVM languages, JavaScript, and native code

• Java proposal addresses scarcity of keywords for new features

  JDK enhancement proposal embraces hyphenated keywords for the sake of compatibility and readability

• Oracle: Eclipse may not use Java EE trademarks

  But Oracle remains committed to working with the Jakarta EE working group and Jakarta EE specification process

• What is PyPy? Faster Python without pain

  PyPy is a drop-in replacement for the stock Python interpreter that is many times faster for some Python programs

• JDK proposal takes aim at verbose Java syntax

  Records and sealed types would provide more compact syntax for declaring classes and a way to restrict subclasses, respectively

• Normir offers Python-based network-management automation

  The alternative to Ansible promises less work for automation developers

• Rust language project addresses loose ends

  2019 Rust project roadmap promises better governance, a more polished language spec, and the completion of longstanding requests

• Red Hat to maintain OpenJDK 8 and OpenJDK 11

  Red Hat will be providing bug fixes and security patches for the two older releases of the Java Development Kit, taking over from Oracle

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