Darryl Taft

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

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Code Wars: Rust vs. C in the Battle for Billion-Device Safety

1 week ago | thenewstack.io | Darryl Taft

A recent experiment by a Dutch Rust engineering consultancy, Tweede golf, demonstrates exactly why Rust is rapidly gaining adoption in safety-critical applications. Software vulnerabilities can affect billions of devices, from ultrasound machines to critical avionics systems, so the programming languages we choose matter more than ever.
Ship Fast, Break Nothing: LaunchDarkly's Winning Formula

2 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | Darryl Taft

In today’s rapidly evolving software landscape, the ability to deliver code quickly while maintaining stability has become a critical competitive advantage. LaunchDarkly, founded in 2014, has emerged as the leader in the feature management space, transforming how companies deploy software by separating deployment from release. The company celebrated its 10th anniversary last July and will hold its next annual Galaxy user conference in mid-May. What’s in a Name?
.NET Modernization: GitHub Copilot Upgrade Eases Migrations

2 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | Darryl Taft

During the .NET Conf Focus on Modernization event, Microsoft demonstrated a powerful new tool: GitHub Copilot Upgrade for .NET with Agent Mode. Unlike previous solutions, this tool applies AI to comprehensively manage the entire upgrade process across multiple interdependent projects.
Vibing Dangerously: The Hidden Risks of AI-Generated Code

4 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | Darryl Taft

Vibe coding has rapidly emerged as a revolutionary approach to software development. This methodology relies on large language models (LLMs) and natural language prompts to create code quickly, enabling developers — and increasingly non-developers — to build applications at unprecedented speeds. Yet, while this approach offers big benefits for rapid prototyping and idea validation, it also casts a significant security shadow that many users may overlook in their rush to embrace this new paradigm.
Code in Your Native Tongue: Amazon Q Developer Goes Global

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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.
Oracle Ships Java 24: 'AI Is So Yesterday' Says VP

1 month ago | thenewstack.io | Darryl Taft

Oracle has released Java 24, which delivers 24 JDK Enhancement Proposals (JEPs) to help developers improve productivity and enhance the Java language. The release comes as Java approaches its 30th anniversary later this year. In a briefing with members of Oracle’s Java team, the group spoke about Java 24’s numerous enhancements, including better support for AI integration, post-quantum cryptography, and performance optimizations.