April 7, 2021

JetBrains has announced the public launch of Code With Me as a part of the IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1  release.  Code With Me is a collaborative development platform designed to enable users to share projects in their IDE and work on it with others in real time. It also includes smart context-based code autocompletion, navigation between objects, and methods declarations and usages. “We realize and admit the power of collaborative development,… Read More »IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1 released with collaborative Code With Me service

In an effort to ensure Android is secure and stable, Google has announced the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) will support Rust for developing the operating system. According to the company, memory safety bugs continue to plague code and memory-safe programming languages like Kotlin, Java and Rust help prevent these bugs from happening in the first place.  “Rust provides memory safety guarantees by using a combination of compile-time checks to… Read More »Android Open Source Project now supports Rust

Microsoft has announced a preview of its build of OpenJDK, which is the open-source distribution for Java. Microsoft’s OpenJDK build includes binaries for Java 11, and the company has also released an early access binary for Java 16 for Windows on ARM.  “Java is one of the most important programming languages used today — developers use Java to build everything from critical enterprise applications to hobby robots. At Microsoft, we’ve… Read More »Microsoft’s OpenJDK build now available as a preview

Lightrun announced the release of a free, self-service version of its debugging solution for developers.  With Lightrun Cloud, users can troubleshoot production applications live from within the IntelliJ IDE and debug modern application architectures like containers, microservices and serverless. “Distributed frameworks are the cornerstone of the most interesting cloud-native development use cases today, but all of these frameworks also carry their own complexities and opportunities for user error,” said Ilan… Read More »SD Times news digest: Lightrun’s free Java debugger, Veracode Technology Alliance Program, and Logi Analytics Acquired by insightsoftware