Tim Anderson

2 weeks ago | devclass.com | Tim Anderson

Sam Cox, co-founder and CTO of a start-up called Tracebit, spoke at QCon London about his decision to use C# as a contrarian choice – showing the problems Microsoft has in convincing the wider development community of the benefit of its .NET platform. Cox needed to develop Tracebit, a security product which works by creating canary services; if they get accessed, there may be an intrusion. The initial target was AWS, the database manager was PosgreSQL, but what should the programming language be?

2 weeks ago | devclass.com | Tim Anderson

One of those most pressing questions for developers right now is the future of coding. “The Anthropic CEO says that in three to six months, AI will be writing 90 percent of the code software developers were in charge of,” Birgitta Böckeler told attendees at her talk on AI Coding State of Play, to which attendees responded with nervous laughter. The QCon developer conference is under way in London in the UK this week, and there is a distinct AI flavor to the content.

2 weeks ago | devclass.com | Tim Anderson

Users of Cursor, an AI coding editor based on the same open source foundation as Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code (VS Code), are experiencing new problems with popular Microsoft extensions, such as for C and C++. A developer complained that the “C/C++ extension is broken” although this worked previously. Reports state that version 1.17.62 works but 1.18.21 and later do not.

2 weeks ago | devclass.com | Tim Anderson

The office Python team is adopting PEP 751, which specifies package dependencies for an application, enabling reproducible installs without on-the-fly dependency resolution. Python core developer Paul Moore stated that “this is full, final acceptance, not provisional,” with the hope of avoiding delay before the new standard is implemented and used. That said, not all existing package managers are likely to replace their existing native lock file formats, though they will have some support.

3 weeks ago | devclass.com | Tim Anderson

The State of Vue.js 2025 report, created with the support of the Vue and Nuxt teams, shows the maturity of this popular front-end framework. Meanwhile, Vue creator Evan You says that Vapor Mode, a big optimization feature, has been delayed by compatibility issues. Vue.js is a popular alternative to React which is enjoyed for its ease of getting started, though React still dominates.