Claude Code, right now in research beta, is an Agentic
coding assistant addressing the CLI Warriors.But it is well worth knowing about.

In March, over 1,000 developers and technologists responded to a survey conducted by Stack Overflow to discover developers' feelings about open-source AI. The results reveal a generational  divide.

The official Microsoft Azure SDK for Rust is a collection of libraries that make Rust developers' life that little bit easier in accessing various Azure services.

Camunda has announced new agentic orchestration capabilities that companies can use to model, deploy, and manage AI agents in their end-to-end processes. Camunda is also introducing AI-powered features for dynamic, intelligent decision making and process generation.

Django 5.2 has been released with the addition of support for composite primary keys, and the automatic importing of all models in the shell by default.

The surprise new entry, or rather re-entry, to the TIOBE index this month is Perl, which has jumped up from #24 last month to #19, replacing Kotlin which has tumbled to #25.

To celebrate Microsoft's 50th Anniversary, Bill Gates has shared the original Altair BASIC Source Code. However it's not been open-sourced in a GitHub repo - instead it's available as a 157-page pdf of scanned fan-fold paper! It makes for a fascinating read.

This week on IProgrammer we have an extract from JavaScript Jems in which Mike James presents the Revealing Constructor Pattern. Harry Fairhead introduces Gpio5, an open source library of C functions, specifically for the Raspberry Pi 5 and CM5 for gaining direct access to the GPIO lines, SPI, PWM and I2C now that libraries such as Wiring Pi, bcm2835, pigpio cannot be used.

LeetGPU is a platform where you can write and test CUDA code.
Now it adds Challenges to foster competition, asking you to put your GPU programming skills to the test by writing the fastest programs.

Torsten Hoefler, a professor at ETH Zurich and Chief Architect for AI and Machine Learning at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, has been awarded the 2024 ACM Prize in Computing.

Microsoft has another free, self-paced AI course, intended for beginners. This one comprises 10 lessons that cover the fundamentals of building AI Agents.

Apple has announced the first stable release of Swiftly, a Swift version manager for installing, managing and updating Swift toolchains.

C++ guru Herb Sutter has a new take on taming the UB monsters in C++, but there is a sense in which the monster is of our own creation and slaying it isn't essential - just tell it to begone.

The findings of RevenueCat's State of Subscription Apps Report show wide discrepancies in revenue potential between the top percentile of apps and the rest. Travel and photo apps are best earners.

Microsoft has released Hyperlight Wasm, a Hyperlight virtual machine (VM) "micro-guest" that can run Wasm component workloads written in many programming languages.

MotherDuck, DuckDB's makers, having listened to its users, has
released a local GUI for easier interaction with the database.

Microsoft has announced the second preview release of .NET 10 with enhancements across the .NET Runtime, SDK, libraries, C#, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and .NET MAUI. 

Google has added a new tool to Gemini. Canvas is a new interactive space within Gemini that can be used to create and refine documents or code.