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V8 Gets a Non-Optimizing Compiler Stage to Improve Performance
The latest version of the JavaScript V8 engine, V8 9.1, introduces a new intermediate compiler stage, called Sparkplug, that improves performance on real-world benchmarks by 5-15%, says V8 engineer Leszek Swirski. It will be available in the upcoming Chrome 91.
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Java News Roundup - Week of May 31st, 2021
This week’s roundup features news from OpenJDK JEPs targeted for JDK 17, initial work on JDK 18, Project Skara 1.0, JavaFX, MicroProfile GraphQL, Quarkus 2.0, Micronaut 3.0, Hibernate ORM 5.5.0, Payara Platform 5, Eclipse Vert.x 4.1.0, Spring and EclipseCon 2021.
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TypeScript 4.3 Improves Property Write Types
TypeScript 4.3 improves property write types, more explicit overwriting of methods, and several other key additions.
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.NET News Roundup: Microsoft Build, .NET 6, MAUI, Visual Studio 2019, Project Reunion
It's been a busy week for the .NET community with this year's edition of Microsoft Build. During the event, Microsoft released new previews for .NET 6 and its related frameworks, along with a new version of Visual Studio, TypeScript 4.3, and more. InfoQ examined these and a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of May 24th, 2021.
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Pyodide Brings Python and Its Scientific Stack to the Browser with WebAssembly
Mozilla announced that Pyodide, which aims at providing a full Python data science stack running entirely in the browser, has become an independent community-driven project. Pyodide uses the CPython 3.8 interpreter compiled to WebAssembly, and thus allows using Python, NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, SciPy, and more in Iodide, an experimental interactive scientific computing environment for the web.
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BlockLike.js Aims to Make it Easier to Go from MIT Scratch to JavaScript Programming
BlockLike.js is an educational JavaScript library that attempts to extend the block-based Scratch learning experience to JavaScript text-based programming.
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Zx - a Tool for Writing Better Scripts
Google recently released a new library called ZX, enabling developers to write CLI scripts using JavaScript without the hassle of dealing with Node.js directly.
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Microsoft Will Retire Internet Explorer 11 in June 2022 for Certain Versions of Windows 10
Microsoft recently announced that the Internet Explorer 11 desktop application will be retired on June 15, 2022, for certain versions of Windows 10. Legacy Internet Explorer-based websites and applications will continue to work with Microsoft Edge’s built-in Internet Explorer mode.
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Angular DevTools Released, Includes Component Explorer and Profiler
Minko Gechev, software engineer working on Angular at Google, recently announced the Angular DevTools Chrome extension. Angular DevTools includes a component explorer and profiler that let developers visualize component trees and analyze change detection cycles. Angular DevTools supports applications built with Angular v9 and above with Ivy enabled.
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Relay Hooks Released, Improves User Experience with Data Prefetching
Robert Balicki and Juan Tejada, software engineers at Facebook, recently released Relay Hooks, a set of new APIs for fetching and managing GraphQL data. Relay Hooks have been battle-tested on the Facebook.com rewrite, and are the recommended way to use Relay at Facebook.
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Deno 1.10 Released with Shared Wasm Memory and Web Storage Support
The Deno team recently released Deno 1.10 with shared WASM memory support, an implementation of Web Storage API, remote import maps, improvements to the built-in test runner, and more.
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.NET News Roundup - Week of May 10th, 2021
.NET News Roundup: JetBrains .NET Days Online, TypeScript 4.3 RC, Visual Studio 2019, .NET vulnerability patches, Steeltoe, Telerik, and Akka.NET
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Microsoft Releases Azure Static Web Apps into General Availability
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Azure Static Web Apps, a serverless web app hosting service for static web apps. The service provides developers with one package that works for static web apps – which Azure manages for them.
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GitHub's Journey with Web Standards and Web Components
GitHub has been working for the last few years on moving away from jQuery and running its interface entirely on Web standards, specifically Web Components. InfoQ has talked with GitHub application engineer Kristján Oddsson to learn more.
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Angular v12 Released, Transitions to Ivy Rendering Engine
Mark Techson, developer advocate on the Angular Team, recently announced the release of Angular v12. Angular 12 transitions away from View Engine (now deprecated). Protractor is no longer included in new Angular projects. Angular components will additionally now support inline Sass.
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