Articles by Paul Krill

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has formed a public AWS COVID-19 data lake, a centralized repository of datasets related to the spread of the novel coronavirus and associated illnesses.AWS on April 8 said it was working with partners to make the growing c…

Version 2.1 of the CheerpJ Java-to-WebAssembly-and-JavaScript compiler, released April 6, brings optimizations to exception handling and native methods.Described as a maintenance release, CheerpJ 2.1 introduces optimizations for exception handling, …

Version 2.1 of the CheerpJ Java-to-WebAssembly-and-JavaScript compiler, released April 6, brings optimizations to exception handling and native methods.Described as a maintenance release, CheerpJ 2.1 introduces optimizations for exception handling, …

With Java 14 having reached general availability March 17, work has begun on the successor, Java 15, due September 15, 2020. Thus far eight official changes have been slated for the release. Three proposals were added in early May, including replacing …

With Java 14 having reached general availability March 17, work has begun on the successor, Java 15, due September 15, 2020. Thus far eight official changes have been slated for the release. Three proposals were added in early May, including replacing …

Eclipse Theia, an “IDE platform” for building multi-language desktop and web-based IDEs from the same codebase, has reached version 1.0 status.The Eclipse Foundation describes Theia as a “true” open source answer to Microsoft’s popular Visual Studio…

Eclipse Theia, an “IDE platform” for building multi-language desktop and web-based IDEs from the same codebase, has reached version 1.0 status.The Eclipse Foundation describes Theia as a “true” open source answer to Microsoft’s popular Visual Studio…

TypeScript 3.9, the next version of the popular typed superset of JavaScript from Microsoft, has arrived as a beta release, with fixes to address extremely poor editing and compilation speeds associated with some packages.The TypeScript team had obs…

TypeScript 3.9, the next version of the popular typed superset of JavaScript from Microsoft, has arrived as a beta release, with fixes to address extremely poor editing and compilation speeds associated with some packages.The TypeScript team had obs…

With the recent release of Git 2.26, the open source distributed version control system uses version 2 of Git’s network fetch protocol by default.This protocol, introduced in 2018, addresses a problem with the old protocol, whereby a server would im…