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Google Moves Dart to GitHub and Kills the Chrome Dev Editor
Google designed Dart as a better language for the web, for developers who wanted a more solid language and tools than what existed in the JavaScript ecosystem. Also, they aimed for better performance. While Dart is certainly more robust and better designed than JavaScript and it outperforms JavaScript on several benchmarks, the language has seen several setbacks.
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Underscore and Lodash Discuss Merging
The Underscore and Lodash JavaScript libraries have started discussions on how to merge the projects into a single project.
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WCF is Open Source
The .NET Foundation has just announced the release of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) as open source. WCF, originally offered in .NET 3.0, offers a high-level abstraction over cross-application communication.
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Node.js and io.js Merge Under the Node Foundation
The io.js TC has voted to join the upcoming Node Foundation. The project will be named Node.js but it will be based on io.js’ repository.
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io.js Team Releases 2.0, Debates Joining Node Foundation
The io.js team has released version 2.0 bringing with it the upgraded V8 JavaScript engine. The upgrade moves classes out of staging, with the class keyword usable in strict mode without flags, as well moving object literal enhancements out of staging, making shorthand method and property syntax usable, and implementing rest parameters in staging behind the --harmony-rest-parameters flag.
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Vorlon.js Released, Aims to Help Developers Remotely Test and Debug JavaScript Code
Microsoft has released Vorlon.js, a remote debugging tool for JavaScript. Announcing the tool in a MSDN blog post, creator David Catuhe described Vorlon.js as "a small web server you can run from your local machine, or install on a server for your team to access, that serves the Vorlon.js dashboard and communicates with the remote devices."
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Sirius: an Open Source Competitor to Siri, Cortana, Google Now
Sirius is an open source, customizable system that can be commanded through vocal input. It has been built by University of Michigan researchers and is similar to Apple Siri, Microsoft Cortana, and Google Now. According to University of Michigan, Sirius “is designed to spark a new generation of intelligent personal assistants” for wearables and other devices."
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Microsoft Announces Azure Active Directory Plugin for Cordova
MS Open Tech has announced a Cordova plugin which allows developers to use Active Directory Authentication in their apps for Android, iOS, Windows Store, and Windows Phone platforms to access the APIs that it protects, such as Office 365, Azure, Graph API, etc.
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Polymer 0.8 Comes with Performance Improvements and Breaking Changes
The Polymer team has made available Polymer 0.8 alpha with a “proposed API for 1.0” but it is “not compatible with the 0.5 API” having many breaking changes. The library has been optimized for size and performance and it is not yet feature complete.
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Facebook Open Sources React Native, Year and Network Class, Fresco and Nuclide
Following yesterday’s announcement of releasing ComponentKit, a framework for creating native UIs declaratively on iOS, Facebook has released a number of other projects as open source during their annual F8 developer conference: React Native, Year Class, Network Connection Class, Fresco, and Nuclide.
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Bazel: Google Build Tool is now Open Source
Bazel, the tool that Google uses to build the majority of its software has been partially open sourced. According to Google, Bazel is aimed to build “code quickly and reliably” and is “critical to Google’s ability to continue to scale its software development practices as the company grows.”
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FB ComponentKit: Declaratively Creating Native UIs on iOS
Facebook has open sourced ComponentKit, a declarative library for creating native views on iOS.
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The Demise of Open Source Hosting Providers Codehaus and Google Code
Open Source project hosting sites like SourceForge, Codehaus and Google Code inspired developers to share their code for projects not associated with a foundation like Apache or Eclipse. Over the past few years, these hosting sites have been superseded by GitHub, to the extent that they are closing down over the next year. InfoQ looks back at their contributions and into the future.
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OData.NET Is Now Open Sourced on GitHub
Microsoft has released the source code for all OData .NET Libraries on GitHub.