News Java on Visual Studio Code Update Focuses on ‘Inner Loop’ In its final post of 2021, the Java on Visual Studio Code dev team reports advancements made to improve the fundamental, day-to-day Java development experience: the “inner loop.” That’s the grunt-work dev process: continually coding, building, tweaking, debugging, testing and so on in repeated … Read more
News Auto Completions Speed Up in Java on Visual Studio Code Java jockeys using Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code editor will see faster code completions thanks to a new language server. “With the recent 1.0 release of the Java Language Server, we have made substantial improvement on the performance of auto-completion,” said Nick Zhu, senior program … Read more
News What’s New in Latest Spring Cloud Azure Release? By David Ramel April 11, 2022 A major update of Spring Cloud Azure, the open-source project that integrates the Spring framework for modular Java app development with Microsoft’s Azure cloud services, is now generally available. Version 4.0 comes with better security, leaner dependencies, and support for … Read more
The Apache Software Foundation has released Apache NetBeans 13, their integrated development environment (IDE), claiming a simpler and smoother startup experience along with the partial upgrade of Maven, Gradle, and PHP. Written in Java and originally designed for the Java community, NetBeans is a cross-platform, polyglot IDE that includes language support for HTML5, PHP, and … Read more
Dropbox recently published how it made the camera upload process for Android faster and more reliable. Dropbox engineers removed shared Android and iOS C++ code and replaced it with a platform-native Kotlin implementation. The engineers are pleased with the decision to rewrite the process, stating that error rates went down and upload performance greatly improved. … Read more
Flix, an open-source programming language inspired by many programming languages, enables developers to write code in a functional, imperative or logic style. Flix looks like Scala, uses a type system based on Hindley-Milner and a concurrency model inspired by Go. The JVM language supports unique features such as the polymorphic effect system and Datalog constraints. … Read more
News Public Preview of Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise Now Available By David Ramel February 17, 2022 Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise, the fully-managed, enterprise-ready service for the Spring framework developed jointly by VMware and Microsoft, is now available in a public preview. Aimed at enterprise Java developers, the service incorporates features from VMware Tanzu to enable … Read more
News Java on VS Code Plans: Improve Inner Loop, Security, Remote Development & More The regular monthly update to Java tooling on Visual Studio Code is light on new features but does provide a peek into future plans, which include improving the fundamental inner loop experience, security, remote development and much more. As the dev … Read more