Sharon Machlis

Director, Editorial Data and Analytics at Foundry

No longer active here for tech news. Check Mastodon or LinkedIn for that! Author of Practical R for Mass Communication & Journalism. A bit #rstats obsessed.

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Deno 1.46 simplifies CLI

Aug 26, 2024 | infoworld.com | Paul Krill |Isaac Sacolick |Matt Asay |Sharon Machlis

Deno Land has released Deno 1.46, which the company says is the final 1.x release of the JavaScript/TypeScript runtime. The upgrade simplifies the command-line interface, improves dependency management and Node.js/npm compatibility, and enables multi-threaded web servers with a new --parallel flag for the deno serve command. Deno 1.46 was announced August 22. To upgrade to Deno 1.46 developers can run the deno upgrade command in their terminal.
JDK 24 preps for restrictions on JNI use

Aug 23, 2024 | infoworld.com | Paul Krill |Evan Schuman |Sharon Machlis

With Java Development Kit (JDK) 23 due to arrive September 17, work already has begun on JDK 24, with the first feature, restricting the use of JNI (Java Native Interface), targeted for the release. A multitude of other features, including many already in preview in JDK 23, also are possible for inclusion. Likely to arrive in March 2025, JDK 24 has been designated as non-long-term support (LTS) release, meaning that like JDK 23, it will only get six months of Premier-level support from Oracle.
The reality of AI-centric coding

Aug 22, 2024 | infoworld.com | Evan Schuman |Simon Bisson |Paul Krill |Sharon Machlis

Credit: The KonG / Shutterstock When Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman told his developers in June that they may no longer be in the coding business in as little as two years, it was a heads up to change-resistant coders that they had better embrace the new AI-centric reality.
Why you’ll love dev containers

Aug 21, 2024 | infoworld.com | Simon Bisson |Paul Krill |Joydip Kanjilal |Sharon Machlis

Containers are a key component of the modern application platform, providing isolation between applications and, at the same time, turning userland into a portable runtime environment. Containers give us a place to both package and run all the necessary dependencies for our code while managing resources and scaling applications and services up and down. Outside of tools like GitHub’s Codespaces, there has been very little focus on using containers as a development tool.
Visual Studio boosts C++ development

Aug 21, 2024 | infoworld.com | Paul Krill |Simon Bisson |Joydip Kanjilal |Sharon Machlis

Microsoft has rolled out improvements for C++ development in the latest version of the Visual Studio IDE, including enhancements for the standard library and significantly faster breakpoint performance. The release, Visual Studio 2022 v17.11, was unveiled August 13. The company has followed that release with two blog posts pertaining to C++ support in the IDE, one on August 21 and another on August 13.
GitHub survey finds nearly all developers using AI coding tools

Aug 21, 2024 | infoworld.com | Paul Krill |Anirban Ghoshal |Matthew Tyson |Sharon Machlis

More than 97% of respondents to GitHub’s AI in software development 2024 survey said they had used AI coding tools at work, but only 38% of US-based developers said their organizations actively encouraged adoption. The survey report was released on August 20. Of the four countries featured—the USA, Brazil, Germany, and India—only the United States found a shortage of organizations actively encouraging adoption. The survey polled 2,000 non-student, enterprise respondents, with 500 from each country.
Meta working on a Self-Taught Evaluator for LLMs

Aug 21, 2024 | infoworld.com | Anirban Ghoshal |Kyle Crum |Sharon Machlis

Facebook parent Meta’s AI research team is working on developing what it calls a Self-Taught Evaluator for large language models (LLMs) that could help enterprises reduce their time and human resource requirements while developing custom LLMs. Earlier this month, the social media giant’s AI research team, dubbed Meta FAIR, published a paper on the technology, which claims that these evaluators could help an LLM create its own training data — synthetic data — for evaluation purposes.
Microsoft .NET 9 previews C#, runtime, SDK improvements

Aug 19, 2024 | infoworld.com | Paul Krill |Bob Violino |Travis Van |Sharon Machlis

Credit: ABB Photo / Shutterstock Microsoft has released a seventh preview of its forthcoming .NET 9 software development platform, with enhancements to C# for API authors. The .NET runtime, SDK, and other areas also are improved. Accessible from dotnet.microsoft.com, .NET 9 Preview 7 was unveiled August 15.
GitHub rolls out AI-powered fixes for code vulnerabilities

Aug 15, 2024 | infoworld.com | Paul Krill |Lynn Greiner |Chandini Jain |Sharon Machlis

Credit: SkillUp / Shutterstock GitHub has unveiled Copilot Autofix, an AI-powered software vulnerability remediation service as part of its GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) service. GitHub introduced Copilot Autofix in production on August 14.
Anthropic adds prompt caching to Claude, cutting costs for developers

Aug 15, 2024 | infoworld.com | Lynn Greiner |Chandini Jain |Simon Bisson |Sharon Machlis

Anthropic announced Wednesday that it is introducing prompt caching in the application programming interface (API) to its Claude family of generative AI models, which will allow developers to save frequently used prompts between API calls. Prompt caching allows customers to provide Claude with long prompts that can then be referred to in subsequent requests without having to send the prompt again.