Deno unveils faster, simpler web server API
The Deno.serve() API promises significant performance benefits and allows developers to create a web server with a single line of code.
Stories by Paul Krill
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Microsoft Semantic Kernel will support OpenAI plugins
Fall 2023 roadmap for the LLM-integrating SDK also lists plans for plugin testing, dynamic planners, end-to-end telemetry, and links to vector databases.
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Golang vulnerability checker flags Go vulnerabilities
Govulncheck is a command-line utility that uses the Go vulnerability database to identify known vulnerabilities in Go source code and Go binaries.
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Visual Studio Code stabilises Remote Tunnels to WSL
Connecting to Windows Subsystem for Linux over Remote Tunnels is out of preview. Group and tab resizing also highlighted in latest VS Code upgrade.
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Microsoft Dev Box workstations on Azure go GA
Azure-hosted, project-specific development workstations can be accessed from Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android devices.
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Rising C++ closes in on C language
C++ has surpassed Java and may soon eclipse C, according to the Tiobe index of programming language popularity. Cobol is back in the top 20.
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Kotlin 1.9.0 features beta of advanced K2 compiler
Release also stabilises language features including replacing the enum class values function.
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Microsoft improves F# language hints in Visual Studio
Microsoft is previewing inline type hints, inline parameter name hints, and return type hints for the F# programming language in Visual Studio.
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Rust most admired language, Stack Overflow survey says
Stack Overflow 2023 Developer Survey finds that JavaScript and Python are the most used and most desired languages, but they fall far short of Rust in satisfying their users.
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TypeScript 5.2 beta brings explicit resource management
Forthcoming update to Microsoft’s strongly-typed JavaScript also backs decorator metadata for consuming metadata on classes.
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AI is catching on with API developers
Some 60% of API developers use generative AI to help them code, according to a Postman survey of more than 40,000 developers and API professionals.
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GitHub Enterprise Server debuts time-based roadmap layout
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.9 introduces a time-based roadmap layout in GitHub Projects, allowing users to view project issues and pull requests on a timeline.
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Rust language gets new governance
Rust Leadership Council established in the wake of community complaints of governance shortcomings and a fork of the language to escape excessive bureacracy.
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Svelte 4 shrinks code footprint, compiled output
Upgrade reduces Svelte package size by 75%, produces smaller and faster hydration code, and lays the groundwork for Svelte 5.
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WASIX undermines WebAssembly System Interface spec, Bytecode Alliance says
Wasmer says the goal of WASIX is to allow any kind of program to run on top of WebAssembly, and this requires system call extensions that fill gaps in WASI. Bytecode Alliance says WASIX is non-standard.
