Developers choose Rust because they can use it to write software that is memory-safe, correct, and above all fast. But the Rust compiler isn’t always the fastest car in the garage. The larger a Rust program is, and the more dependencies it has, the longer its compile time will be. A development...

   Last week it was looms. This week it is potato chips. I’m a huge fan of EconTalk, a podcast hosted by Russ Roberts. Russ is a great guy and his guests are invariably interesting. One of my all-time favorite episodes is Brendan O’Donohoe on Potato Chips and Salty Snacks, in which O’Donohoe and...

   Anthropic has introduced Cowork, a research-preview feature aimed at extending Claude Code’s capabilities beyond programming to everyday enterprise workflows. The new flavor of the coding assistant will enable users to automate tasks such as summarizing calendars, creating reports, and organizing...

   Java Development Kit (JDK) 27, a release of standard Java planned for arrival in September, already has a feature proposed for it: a post-quantum hybrid key exchange capability to bolster network security. The feature, post-quantum hybrid key xxchange for TLS 1.3, was listed on the OpenJDK page for...

   Google has published the first draft of Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open standard to help AI agents order and pay for goods and services online. It co-developed the new protocol with industry leaders including Shopify, Etsy, Wayfair, Target and Walmart. It also has support from payment...

   In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, building agile, scalable and maintainable software systems is paramount. Organizations often start with monolithic applications for their simplicity, but soon face challenges as these systems grow more complex. A distributed monolith, where the application...

   Software development used to be simpler, with fewer choices about which platforms and languages to learn. You were either a Java, .NET, or LAMP developer. You focused on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. Full-stack developers learned the intricacies of selected JavaScript frameworks, relational...

   For years, enterprises enthusiastically adopted a cloud-first approach, eager to take advantage of the flexibility and rapid innovation public cloud platforms offered. But as artificial intelligence operations transition from experiments to business imperatives, organizations are discovering that...

   Oracle’s Java team in 2026 will work toward milestones including a preview of value types, an incubation of code reflection, shipping AOT (ahead-of-time) code compilation, and finalizing the structured concurrency API. These efforts and many others under OpenJDK projects such as Project Loom, for...

   Since 2008, millions of developers around the world have found answers to their programming questions on the popular platform Stack Overflow. Recently, however, activity has declined significantly, and in December, only 3,862 questions were asked on Stack Overflow, which is a 78 percent decrease on...

   When I started integrating AI into my workflows, I was seduced by the promise of one tool to rule them all. One login. One workflow. One platform that would manage research, writing, operations and communications all in one neat package. In theory, it was elegant. But what I found, in the end, was...

   API platform Postman has acquired API documentation- and SDK-generation startup Fern to extend its support for developers around API adoption. The acquisition targets common pain points, including poor documentation and brittle libraries, that slow adoption of APIs and drive up their integration...

   As agentic AI takes hold across the technology industry, development tools are rapidly integrating AI-powered features. Experts say there is a rising demand for AI-assisted low-code and no-code development tools. The demand is huge, says Marc-Aurele Legoux, owner of Marcus-Aurelius Digital. These...

   Every few months, the developer tool hype machine finds a new hero. In 2023, it was GitHub Copilot, the AI pair programmer that made autocomplete feel like magic. In 2024, the vibe shifted to Cursor and the new class of AI-first editors. And now, at least on X, Google’s agent-first Antigravity is...

   Visual Studio Code 1.108, the latest version of Microsoft’s popular code editor, introduces support for Agent Skills, a new feature that allows users to teach the GitHub Copilot coding agent new capabilities and provide domain-specific knowledge. VS Code 1.108, also known as the December 2025...

   Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW) has rapidly become a staple for data professionals and has arguably changed how cloud developers, data managers and data scientists interact with data. Its architecture is designed to decouple storage and compute, allowing organizations to scale resources independently to...

   Snowflake is planning to acquire AI-based site reliability engineer (SRE) platform provider Observe to strengthen observability capabilities across its offerings and help enterprises with AIOps as they accelerate AI pilots into production. Longer term, Snowflake is positioning itself as...

   2026 is already popping with new Python goodies: an ultra-fast type checker from the makers of uv, Django 6, and a new way to generate C code with Python for faster-executing apps. Read on for these and other highlights. Top picks for Python readers on InfoWorld Reader picks: The most popular...

   Microsoft has open-sourced XAML Studio, a rapid protoyping tool for WinUI developers using XAML. Microsoft made the announcement on January 6. XAML Studio lets developers prototype user interface ideas before integrating them into an app within the Visual Studio IDE. Developers can prototype UWP...

   Databricks is joining the AI software vendors quietly admitting that old-fashioned deterministic methods can perform much better than generative AI’s probabilistic approach in many applications. Its new Instructed Retriever architecture combines old-fashioned database queries with the similarity...