Canonical has released Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, aka “Noble Numbat,” a new Long Term Support release of the popular Linux distribution that brings performance enhancements and toolchain updates for d...
Google has released the first beta of the Android 15 mobile OS for developers and early adopters. This version of the Android operating system emphasizes productivity, user privacy and security...
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Bun 1.1, the latest version of the Bun toolkit and drop-in Node.js replacement for building, testing, and running JavaScript and TypeScript , now supports Windows 10 . The latest version is al...
JetBrains’ Kotlin language , a Java rival endorsed by Google for Android mobile development , continues to scale up Tiobe’s index of language popularity, reaching the 15th spot in the Novemb...
You might think that Apple’s Swift is a programming language for macOS and iOS only. It’s a natural conclusion, as Swift is closely tied to Apple’s own Xcode development environment. But o...
The latest release of Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code editor features more audio cues, customizable Activity Bar positioning, and coding improvements to the Python extension. VS Code 1.84, als...
Hot on the heels of Oracle’s release of the Java 21 platform , Microsoft now is offering its own build of the open source OpenJDK 21, at no cost. Available from learn.microsoft.com as of Sep...
Microsoft has long intended to make Windows the place for developers. Its intention is shown in both software and hardware as the company aims to deliver tools that make it possible to build code...
In the Linux world, package managers catalog and install the software available in a given Linux distribution. Until recently, Microsoft Windows software management wasn't that centralized. There...
Flutter , Google’s open source framework for multi-platform UI development, ushers in faster graphics and 2D scrolling with the latest release, Flutter 3.13, announced August 16 . Improvement...
The Windows version of the Python interpreter can be run from the command line the same way it’s run in other operating systems, by typing python or python3 at the prompt. But there’s a featu...
Kotlin 1.9.0, the latest version of JetBrains’ statically typed language that has become critical in Android mobile development, features a beta of the performance-boosting K2 compiler for the...
For decades Red Hat has led the enterprise Linux market, but as popular as its eponymous Linux distribution might be, CentOS 7 is orders of magnitude more widely used —20 times as popular, by m...
FreeBSD’s 30th birthday presents an opportunity to look back and examine why this open source operating system has not only endured, but thrived across many organizations and use cases for so ...
Jetpack Compose is Android’s recommended toolkit for building native UIs, representing the platform’s demonstrative shift from imperative to declarative UIs. Google is making a big push to dr...
Android Studio Flamingo, the latest version of the official IDE for Android app development, is available in a stable release. New features include Jetpack Compose and Material 3 templates, live ...
Google has released a first Developer Preview of its Android 14 mobile OS, emphasizing tablets and foldables as well as improvements for data transfers and battery life. The preview was unveile...
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) now will run fully supported on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) cloud platform. Although RHEL competes with Oracle Linux, Oracle says it is not stressed abou...
Ongoing macroeconomic factors coupled with the continued decline in personal PC sales has caused Microsoft’s revenue growth to slump.
Canonical has released Ubuntu 22.10, an update to the company’s Linux distribution that introduces MicroPython support on a variety of microcontrollers. Codenamed “Kinetic Kudu” and anno...