High-performance Java platform born in ad-tech is geared toward high-load web, cloud, networking, and microservices applications
The once-ubiquitous technology for displaying rich media content in web browsers and mobile devices will no longer be supported in 2021.
Major PHP upgrade also features named arguments and attributes, for including structured metadata in classes, functions, methods, and more
Experimental feature in Kotlin 1.4.20 allows string concatenations to be compiled into dynamic invocations for JDK 9 or later targets
Rust-based project that originated at Mozilla is intended to provide a high-performance, safe rendering web engine for embedding in other applications
Based on Google’s Jetpack Compose for Android, JetBrains’ Jetpack Compose for Desktop takes a declarative and reactive approach to creating user interfaces with Kotlin
While this edition is considered a housekeeping release, it does introduce navigation enhancements to both the workbench and the terminal
Support for gradual updates in React 17 should make it safer to mix different versions of React in the same app
New platform moves toward the unification of the .NET development experience across desktop, web, mobile, cloud, and IoT targets
Latest version of the React-based web framework also features an e-commerce starter kit and internationalised routing and language detection
Opinionated full-stack JavaScript framework leverages React on the front end, AWS Lambda on the back end, GraphQL in between, and static delivery via CDN
Highlights of the latest upgrade of the Node.js alternative also feature an overhauled REPL and web platform APIs
Workspaces support in the NPM CLI allow you to manage multiple packages from within a single top-level root package
Upgrade to the event-driven JavaScript runtime also updates NPM, enhances unhandled rejections, and adds new methods for working with array buffers
Project roadmap puts a compiler rewrite, multiplatform mobile development, and WebAssembly at the top of the to do list