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Darryl Taft

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News Editor at The New Stack

Tech journo. News Editor at The New Stack @thenewstack covering #DevOps, #appdev, #cloud, #programminglanguages, #devtools and stuff like that.

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  • Code in Your Native Tongue: Amazon Q Developer Goes Global

    2 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | Darryl Taft

    In a significant move toward AI democratization, Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week announced that Amazon Q Developer — its AI-powered coding assistant — now supports multiple spoken languages beyond English. Developers can now interact with the tool in languages including Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, French, Japanese, and Korean, opening generative AI (GenAI) capabilities to a much broader global audience.

  • From BASIC to Vibes: Microsoft's 50-Year Code Evolution

    2 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | Darryl Taft

    In honor of its 50th anniversary, Microsoft has released its very own vibe coding kit — GitHub Copilot agent mode and Model Context Protocol (MCP) support.

  • EngFlow Makes C++ Builds 21x Faster and Software a Lot Safer

    3 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | Darryl Taft

    EngFlow, a build acceleration company created by former Google engineers behind the open source Bazel project for remote build execution for developers, recently launched the public beta of CMake RE, a remote execution service for users of the CMake software build system. EngFlow also recently acquired a company called tipi.build to bolster its build acceleration product line. Tipitipi.build provides fast remote C, C++, and Rust builds with caching technology based on CMake and Git.

  • Rust Gets Its Missing Piece: Official Spec Finally Arrives

    3 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | Darryl Taft

    The Rust Foundation this week announced that Ferrous Systems is donating its Ferrocene Language Specification (FLS) to the Rust Project. According to the foundation, this donation addresses a critical gap in Rust’s documentation ecosystem — the lack of an official language specification.

  • Eclipse Theia: The ‘DeepSeek’ of AI Tooling?

    1 month ago | thenewstack.io | Darryl Taft

    Can the Eclipse Foundation’s recently released Theia AI platform become the “DeepSeek” of AI tooling? Well, it’s possible that the vision of Foundation Executive Director Mike Milinkovich will come to be. Eclipse last week launched a production release of its platform for building AI-enabled tools — Theia AI, plus an alpha release of an AI-powered IDE (Theia IDE) that demonstrates the platform’s capabilities.

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Darryl Taft
Darryl Taft @darrylktaft
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