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Swift 5.3 Brings New Language Features, Better Developer Experience, and Improved Performance
Swift 5.3, which has recently become available with Xcode 12, includes a number of significant new features at the syntax level, including support for multi-pattern catch clauses, increased availability for implicit self, and more. Additionally, the Swift team has worked on improving runtime performance, especially when using SwiftUI, and developer experience.
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Java 15 Released
Oracle has released version 15 of the Java programming language and virtual machine.
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AWS Launches New Contact Flow APIs for Amazon Connect
Amazon Connect is an omnichannel contact service for enterprises to set up and manage a contact center. It is based on the same technology used by 70,000 Amazon customer service associates around the world to power customer conversations.
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Visual Studio Codespaces Is Now GitHub Codespaces
Earlier this month, Microsoft announced that Visual Studio Codespaces is consolidating into GitHub Codespaces. Visual Studio Codespaces is a cloud-based, on-demand development environment similar to Gitpod. The consolidated product supports Azure Functions and can be used with Visual Studio 2019, Visual Studio Code, and modern browsers.
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Cypress 5.x Adds Test Retries and Shadow DOM Support
Cypress, a browser-based test runner and dashboard, recently introduced native support for test retries in the Cypress 5.0 release, helping developers avoid intermittent test failures. Other recent Cypress advances include networking stubbing and shadow DOM support.
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Facebook Releases AI Model for Protein Sequence Processing
A team of scientists at Facebook AI Research have released a deep-learning model for processing protein data from DNA sequences. The model contains approximately 700M parameters, was trained on 250 million protein sequences, and learned representations of biological properties that can be used to improve current state-of-the-art in several genomics prediction tasks.
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Microsoft to Contribute to Java on Windows and Mac ARM
Microsoft is working to help port Java to Windows and Mac ARM on the AARCH64 chipset. The improvement should help enable Java applications to run on upcoming commercial ARM hardware.
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Microsoft Releases Entity Framework Core 5.0 RC 1
Last week, Microsoft released Entity Framework Core 5.0 RC1, the first "go live" release of the framework before its official debut in November, together with .NET 5. This release candidate contains all features planned for EF Core 5.0, including: transparent many-to-many mapping, general query enhancements, and overall improvements in performance, migrations, and deployment experience.
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GitHub CLI Reaches 1.0, Enables Scripting CI/CD Workflows
Released in beta last February, GitHub CLI has now reached version 1.0. According to GitHub, you can use GitHub CLI for your entire workflow from issues to reviews to releases. In addition, you can script the GitHub API to automate any available action.
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Public Beta of Google Cloud API Gateway Now Available
At the recent Google's Cloud Next virtual conference, Google announced the public beta of API Gateway, a fully-managed Google Cloud service to create and monitor APIs for serverless workloads.
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Microsoft Releases .NET 5.0 RC 1
Earlier this week, Microsoft released .NET 5.0 RC1, the first "go live" release of .NET 5 before its official debut in November. .NET 5 is a unified platform for the .NET ecosystem, wrapping together all of its components into one cross-platform package. The new release includes many improvements from .NET Core 3, including new language versions (C# 9 and F# 5) and support for Windows ARM64.
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NativeScript 7 Moves from ES5 to ES2017+
NativeScript 7 aligns with modern JavaScript standards by targeting es2017+. Additionally, it streamlines app configuration by consolidating it in a single file and replaces JavaScriptCore with V8 for iOS apps.
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Microsoft Announces New Technologies to Combat Disinformation
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced two new technologies to combat disinformation: a Video Authenticator tool, and technology to either detect manipulated content or assure people that the media they're viewing is authentic.
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C++20 Is Now Final, C++23 at Starting Blocks
Originally planned for release last February, C++20 has now received the final technical approval and will be published foreseeably by the end of the year. C++20 will include modules, coroutines, and concepts among its major new features.
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Web Storage APIs - Pete Lepage at Google's Web.Dev
New APIs have emerged to answer the need of a web moving from documents to applications. Pete Lepage presented at web.dev LIVE a short but thorough description of the options developers have to store and cache data on the client. The CacheStorage, StorageManager and other APIs help developers create applications with offline capabilities and performance closer to native mobile applications’.