Microsoft gets serious about WebAssembly
It’s not hard to see why Microsoft is investing in WebAssembly. It’s a technology that scratches many different itches. It delivers apps to users, adds rich user interfaces to web [...]
TypeScript 4.3 supports type specification for properties
TypeScript 4.3, a planned upgrade to Microsoft’s typed superset of JavaScript, allows developers to specify types for reading and writing to properties.This type specification enhancement addresses a situation in which [...]
The decline of Heroku
Heroku has long been held up as the gold-standard platform as a service (PaaS) for software developers to easily deploy their code without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure, [...]
Microsoft unveils its own Java distribution
In a move that could mean serious competition for Oracle in the Java space, Microsoft is previewing its own build of OpenJDK, a freely available, long-term support distribution of open [...]
Objective-C plummets in popularity
Objective-C, which has been a staple of software development for Apple platforms, slumped in this month’s Tiobe Index of programming language popularity, falling out of the top 20 for the [...]
How to avoid GC pressure in C# and .NET
Garbage collection occurs when the system is low on available physical memory or the GC.Collect() method is called explicitly in your application code. Objects that are no longer in use [...]
Our cloud complexity bias may be hurting business
I was listening to my podcast feed again this weekend, and beyond the true crime shows, I did listen to something more work related. The question asked on this episode [...]
Google wins Java dispute, Oracle remains defiant
In a case that went back and forth for more than a decade, the US Supreme Court has sided with Google in the dispute with Oracle over Google’s use of [...]
Visual Studio Code 1.55 brings improvements to breakpoints
Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code 1.55, the latest version of the company’s popular code editor, offers improvements to breakpoints, thus improving user control.Published March 31, Visual Studio Code 1.55 shows an [...]