AI is catching on with API developers

Artificial intelligence has caught on with software developers who build APIs, with 60% of respondents to a recent Postman survey saying they are using generative AI in their jobs. This was just one of the key findings in Postman’s 2023 ...

Svelte 4 shrinks code footprint, compiled output

More than four years after the arrival of Svelte 3, Svelte 4 is now available, offering smaller and faster code hydration for better performance. Svelte 4 reduces the Svelte package size by nearly 75%, from 10.6MB to 2.8MB, translating to ...

Oracle introduces free license for GraalVM

Oracle is making its GraalVM Java virtual machine and Java Development Kit (JDK) with advanced compiler technology available for free. Developers and organizations can use and redistribute Oracle GraalVM without needing a click-through license agreement. The company announced on June ...

WASIX undermines WebAssembly System Interface spec, Bytecode Alliance says

WASIX, Wasmer’s new mechanism to make it easier to compile to WebAssembly, has drawn opposition from the Bytecode Alliance, which sees WASIX as non-standard. An industry consortium founded by Mozilla, Red Hat, Intel, and Fastly, the Bytecode Alliance promotes WebAssembly ...

GitLab Dedicated offers single-tenant, SaaS-based devsecops

GitLab Dedicated, a fully isolated, single-tenant SaaS edition of the GitLab devsecops platform, is now generally available. The service is hosted and managed by GitLab and deployed on Amazon Web Services. Launched June 15, GitLab Dedicated is geared to users ...