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Rust 1.4 Brings Major Improvement to Cargo
The Rust core team has released 1.4 stable, with approximately 1200 changes including a major improvement to Cargo, stabilised APIs, and fixes to improve the behavior of associated types.
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New Releases: Ceylon 1.2, Node.js 5.0 and Atom 1.1
Ceylon, Node.js and Atom have all seen stable upgrades this week, and we have decided to write a common post covering most notable features and enhancements that come with these new versions.
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Atomic: A UI Designer for Android, iOS and the Web
Atomic is a user interface designer that runs in the browser. Without writing any code, application designers can use it to show how the interface of an application should look like and behave when certain commands are executed.
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Node.js 4.2 "Argon" Released Under Long Term Support Plan
The Node.js Foundation have released Argon, the first Node.js release covered under the Long Term Support plan.
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Angular 2: "We're Really Close"
In the keynote session at AngularConnect in London, Brad Green and friends gave attendees an overview of where Angular 2 is and made some important announcements. Angular 1 is still in full-force, but Angular 2 is shaping up to be a major force on the web and on mobile.
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Firefox Will No Longer Support Plug-ins Except for Flash
Mozilla has announced the end of NPAPI in Firefox by the end of 2016, the only plug-in continuing to be supported being Flash.
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Microsoft Enables Async/Await in Edge Preview Build
Microsoft has enabled the async/await JavaScript function syntax in a preview build of its Edge browser. The feature is likely to become part of the ES2016 standard and its implementation in browsers is a necessary step.
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Meteor Release Galaxy, a Hosting Environment for Meteor Apps
Meteor has released Galaxy, its long anticipated cloud service for managing Meteor applications. In the blog post Announcing Meteor Galaxy, Matt DeBergalis says users "deploy Meteor apps into Galaxy with the same meteor deploy command you're already used to" and that it comes with the "day-to-day basics" including application logs and SSL cert management.
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Speeding Up the Mobile Web with AMP HTML
Google has open sourced the specification for a restricted HTML that is meant to improve the mobile experience on the web.
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Lightweight JavaScript Library Offers Flash-Free Clipboard Integration
Clipboard.js is a lightweight library to copy text to the clipboard without using Flash.
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Reduce the Risk of Failure With Elm
At Strange Loop 2015, Richard Feldman gave an overview of how using Elm in production has sped up his team's development cycle and improved the quality of their app.
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Meteor 1.2: ECMAScript 2015 and support for AngularJS, React
Meteor 1.2 has been released, announcing ECMAScript 2015 as the official JavaScript of the Meteor platform, along with support for Angular and React.
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JavaScript Streams Introduced at Strange Loop
At the Strange Loop 2015 conference, Pam Selle introduced streams in JavaScript, showing what they're good for and how developers can use them.
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Q&A with Mikeal Rogers on Node.js 4.0
Node.js and former Node fork io.js recently released their first combined in a single codebase. InfoQ sat down with Node.js Foundation community manager Mikeal Rogers to find out more.
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Facebook Launches Relay Data Framework
Facebook has announced the launch of their declarative data framework, Relay. Using GraphQL for structuring data requests, Relay lets developers and designers declare the data they need, letting the framework determine what to retrieve and how to do it.