An improved 32-bit out-of-process designer should support legacy 32-bit Windows Forms (WinForms) applications. With this modification, Microsoft is trying to solve a problem that arose in November 2021, when the first 64-bit version of Visual Studio 2022 was introduced. WinForms is a framework f... Read more
2 months ago
The beta release of the new terminal in all JetBrains Integrated Development Environments is a stepping stone to a revised development environment. JetBrains offers a total of 14 different IDEs for writing code. All of these IDEs can expect a new terminal soon. Some major IDEs are IntelliJ IDEA ... Read more
2 months ago
Developers can now publish extensions in the Marketplace and add Language Server Protocol (LSP) support to their extensions. With VisualStudio.Extensibility, there is a framework for developing Visual Studio extensions that run outside the Microsoft IDE development environment. The SDK is design... Read more
2 months ago
In recent weeks, most of the talk has been about Gemini at Google. A new AI model from Google that is supposed to become the engine of all AI projects. Today Google Deepmind suddenly presents an open model called Gemma. Open in this case means that the model can be used anywhere. Hugging Face is on... Read more
2 months ago
The new infrastructure libraries make moving a locally running generative AI stack to the cloud easier. "The GenAI tech stack is new and emerging but has typically consisted of a LLM service and a vector data store. Running this stack on a laptop is fairly simple but getting it to production is ... Read more
2 months ago
TU Delft researchers developed an alternative to the lithium battery. The alternative is based on sodium. This is "an important step in the energy transition." A sodium battery is, in fact, a battery based on kitchen salt. The earth has a lot more to give from this raw material than from lithi... Read more
2 months ago
Google has released version 3.3 of the Dart programming language. The main introductions of the release are an extension types feature and a new JavaScript interop model. With extension types, developers have a new tool to optimize performance-sensitive code, especially when working with host pl... Read more
2 months ago
Apple plans to release a GitHub Copilot alternative for developers this year. That assistant will help writing code. That's according to sources of Bloomberg. The tool should allow complete lines or blocks of code to be generated based on small commands entered by developers. Apple's Xcode, whic... Read more
2 months ago
Pegasystems is introducing Pega GenAI Blueprint, a development tool that combines best practices with generative AI to speed up the software design process. Users initially enter a brief description of an app's purpose into Pega GenAI Blueprint. The tool then guides users in identifying and desi... Read more
2 months ago
Google has pledged $1 million (€931,000) to the Rust Foundation. With this money, the technology giant intends to contribute to an initiative to interoperate Rust code with legacy C++ code bases. The Interop Initiative, aims to "slowly migrate current C++ to Rust." There has been an enthusiast... Read more
3 months ago
