Is the React compiler ready for prime time?

by | Oct 30, 2024 | Cloud

React’s development team has been quietly working on a compiler to improve the default performance of applications that rely on React. The goal is a compiler that comprehends both JavaScript and React and outputs optimized versions of both; a major undertaking. Word...

Python has overtaken JavaScript on GitHub

by | Oct 30, 2024 | Cloud

Python has overtaken JavaScript as the most popular language on GitHub, while the use of Jupyter Notebooks also has skyrocketed on the site. The rise of both underscore the surge in data science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning on the code-sharing...

JetBrains updates Kotlin roadmap

by | Oct 30, 2024 | Cloud

JetBrains has updated its Kotlin language roadmap, with key priorities that include more efficient data handling, increased abstraction, and enhanced performance. The company also promised faster code completion, highlighting, and search, along with more stable code...

GitHub Copilot expands AI model support

by | Oct 29, 2024 | Cloud

GitHub is bringing multi-model support to GitHub Copilot, its AI-powered coding assistant, enabling developers to select from multiple generative AI models including Google Gemini 1.5 Pro, OpenAI GPT-4o, OpenAI o1-preview, OpenAI o1-mini, and Anthropic Claude 3.5...