Tim Anderson

2 weeks ago | devclass.com | Tim Anderson

Apple has introduced VM-based Containerization at its WWDC (Worldwide Developer Conference), along with Container – an open-source CLI (command-line interface) – however it has yet to fix a problem which prevents the latest dev builds of Podman from using the Rosetta translation layer, needed for high performance amd64 performance within Linux VMs. The company’s main target here is developer tooling for server-side Linux applications, and the new features will be welcome, though full support...

2 weeks ago | devclass.com | Tim Anderson

Software engineer and app developer Ashish Bhatia cites multiple reasons why Android development is hard work, winning agreement from many developers who encounter challenges developing apps and keeping them current. Bhatia once worked at Google on Android security, and now develops an Android app called MusicSync.

3 weeks ago | devclass.com | Tim Anderson

Anysphere has released version 1.0 of its AI editor, Cursor, along with new features including previews of a BugBot that automatically reviews pull requests (PRs) and finds issues, a Background Agent that edits code in a remote environment, and a Memories feature which stores and references facts from previous AI chats. BugBot connects to GitHub and inspects the content of code commits.

3 weeks ago | devclass.com | Tim Anderson

An internal Apple developer team revealed in a new case study that “Java’s memory management approach no longer aligns with our growing demands and efficiency goals.”The team is now looking for more efficient languages, and in this example chose Swift, achieving a claimed 50 percent reduction in hardware utilization, 90 percent less memory, and 40 percent more throughput. The service is for password monitoring, checking user passwords against a list of those that have leaked.

3 weeks ago | devclass.com | Tim Anderson

The Angular team has released version 20, with key changes including further stabilized reactivity based on its Signals API, a developer preview of doing without ZoneJS to improve performance, and experimental support for the vitest testing framework as a replacement for the deprecated Karma test runner. Sponsored by Google, Angular is an open-source web framework with both client-side and optional server-side rendering.