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By Paul Krill Google has updated both its Flutter multiplatform application development framework and the accompanying Dart language. In making these updates, the company stressed the addition of the WebAssembly bytecode instruction format as a compilation target for web apps built with Flutter and Dart. The announcement follows recent reports of Google laying off staff from the Dart and Flutter teams. Flutter 3.22 and Dart 3.4 were announced on May 14, offering performance boosts and platform-specific refinements. With Flutter 3.22, WebAssembly (Wasm) is brought to the stable channel, offerin...
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By Paul Krill Angular 18, the next planned release of Google’s TypeScript-based web app development framework, is due to arrive on May 22, with features such as deferrable views and declarative control flow moving out of developer preview to a stable stage. Deferrable views, which are also known as @defer blocks, can be used in component templates to defer the loading of select dependencies within the template, thus reducing the initial bundle size of the application. Declarative control flow is a new built-in syntax for control flow that brings functionality such as NgIf, NgFor, and NgSwitch ...
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By Joydip Kanjilal When developing database-driven .NET and .NET Core, regardless of the database we intend to deploy in the end, we will often want to work with a database engine that is lightweight and fast, in order to execute tests quickly and speed up development. Here SQLite is an ideal choice. You can use SQLite to gain both faster data access and a smaller footprint. The SQLite database is usually stored as a single disk file, although it can also work as an in-memory database. However, unlike an in-memory database, SQLite allows you to query data without having to load the entire data...
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By Valeria Letusheva Django has been a leading “batteries included” Python web framework for more than a decade. The fifth major release, which arrived in December, brought even more power and ease to Django. Curious about the latest Django development trends? JetBrains’ PyCharm team, in collaboration with the Django Foundation, surveyed over 4,000 developers worldwide to analyze framework usage. Here’s what we found: Prefer to watch? View the discussion video featuring Django Board Member Sarah Abderemane, Django Fellow Sarah Boyce, and JetBrains Developer Advocate Paul Everitt as they explor...
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By Paul Krill With newly introduced Deno 1.43, the developers of the JavaScript/TypeScript runtime have enhanced its language server, speeding up auto-completion performance and improving memory consumption. Introduced May 1, Deno 1.43 can be accessed via running the deno upgrade command in a terminal. Deno Land developers have reworked many aspects of the Deno language server, commonly referred to as Deno LSP, which provides auto-completion in the editor and other capabilities. With Deno 1.43, auto-completion now takes less than one second in larger projects when it used to take six to eight ...
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By Paul Krill Svelte 5, a planned update to the reactive UI framework, has reached the release candidate phase. No breaking changes are anticipated between now and the stable release. The release candidate was announced on April 30. It features a rewrite of Svelte to be faster, easier to use, and more robust. Runes, a signal-powered reactivity API, is a highlight of this release. Runes promises to unlock universal, fine-grained reactivity, the Svelte team said. Other highlights in Svelte 5 include: Components written for Svelte 4 will continue to work, with several exceptions. Components are n...
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By Paul Krill Along with releasing Python specialists, Google also has laid off Flutter and Dart teams according to various reports. Google did not respond this morning to InfoWorld's inquiry about Flutter and Dart layoffs. But comments were circulating online about staff reductions at Google. Flutter is an open source framework for building multi-platform applications from a single codebase. Dart, a language leveraged by Flutter, was once positioned as a rival to JavaScript. Google pledged to unveil updates to Flutter at the Google I/O conference in two weeks. With the reduction of staff for ...
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By Paul Krill Userware has released OpenSilver 2.2, an update to the company’s open-source replacement for Microsoft’s Silverlight rich internet application framework. This release lets legacy Visual Studio LightSwitch applications run on modern browsers via a compatibility pack. OpenSilver 2.2 and the LightSwitch Compatibility Pack were announced April 30. Developers can download OpenSilver 2.2 and sign up for a trial of LightSwitch Compatibility Pack. With the Userware updates, Lightswitch applications can be ported without rewriting them. Discontinuation of the Silverlight plugin, which pow...
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By Paul Krill React 19, the latest version of Meta’s JavaScript library for rendering user interfaces, is now available in beta. The update introduces features such as async functions in transitions and the ability to access ref as a prop for function components. The React 19 beta was unveiled April 25. A React 19 beta upgrade guide has been published. React 19 adds support for using async functions in transitions to handle pending states, forms, errors, and optimistic updates automatically. Functions that use async transitions are called Actions. By building on top of Actions, React 19 introd...
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By Paul Krill WebAssembly runtime maker Wasmer has unveiled py2wasm, a Python-to-WebAssembly compiler that transforms Python programs to the WebAssembly (aka Wasm) binary instruction format. Using a fork of the Nuitka Python compiler, py2wasm converts Python programs to Wasm, allowing them to run without interpreter overhead. Introduced April 18, py2wasm addresses a situation in which the performance of Python programs in WebAssembly has been less than ideal, Wasmer founder and CEO Syrus Akbary wrote in a blog post. Akbary said that py2wasm gets about 70% of native Python speed, and is about 2...
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