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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is officially becoming a supported Linux distribution for Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), a feature that allows Windows users to run a Linux environment natively, without the need for a virtual machine. This move, announced on November 19 by both Red Hat and Microsoft, represents a significant step forward in integrating enterprise-level Linux environments directly into the Windows ecosystem. Currently, users can run various Linux distributions on WSL, but with RHEL becoming an official option, Microsoft aims to simplify the process of discovering and installing RHEL for WSL users. In the coming months, Red…

For years, the Spring framework has been the go-to solution for back-end Java development, but a new generation of frameworks is beginning to challenge that dominance. Among these, Micronaut stands out as one of the most promising contenders. Developed by the same team behind the Grails framework, Micronaut is designed with modern cloud architectures in mind, offering a powerful, lightweight alternative to the established frameworks. In this hands-on introduction to Micronaut, we’ll dive into its core features and functionality. We’ll begin by building a simple RESTful API application, before refactoring it for reactive non-blocking I/O (NIO) to highlight Micronaut’s performance…

C# has experienced a notable surge in popularity, according to the latest Tiobe programming community index. While the language still holds steady at the fifth position in the Tiobe rankings for May 2022—unchanged from the previous year—its overall rating has seen a significant increase. The language now boasts a rating of 6.39%, a remarkable 1.98 percentage point increase from 4.41% in May 2021. This growth highlights the rising demand and adoption of C# within the programming community. Tiobe attributes C#’s continued success to its status as one of the most mature and versatile programming languages in use today. The language…

“Hope springs eternal in the human breast,” wrote Alexander Pope, and though he was a poet, not a programmer, he surely would have understood the excitement that comes with discovering a new programming language. Software developers, ever the optimists, hold out hope that the next language they encounter will be the one—a language so perfectly designed it could solve our coding challenges with ease. We dream of a syntax so intuitive that our ideas flow effortlessly into logical, elegant rules, producing code that feels as natural as breathing. There’s something thrilling about the thought of a new programming language—its potential…

Apache Kafka, the leading platform for distributed event streaming, is undergoing a significant architectural shift. The platform is phasing out Apache ZooKeeper, its long-standing metadata management tool, in favor of an internally developed alternative. This move is set to simplify Kafka’s architecture, improve scalability, and streamline cluster management for users. ZooKeeper has historically been used to store Kafka’s cluster metadata, manage dynamic configurations, and oversee topic partitions. However, as Colin McCabe, a member of Kafka’s project management committee and an engineer at Confluent, explains, ZooKeeper introduces an additional layer of complexity. Transitioning to an internal metadata management system will allow…

At the Appsilon-sponsored Shiny conference this week, RStudio’s Barret Schloerke introduced shinytest2, a new R package designed to enhance the testing capabilities for Shiny web applications. Now available on CRAN, shinytest2 version 0.1.0 enables automated testing of app interactivity using chromote, a headless Chrome browser. This tool aims to simplify the process of ensuring Shiny apps behave as expected across user interactions, significantly improving testing workflows for developers. One of the highlights of shinytest2 is its record_test() function, which Schloerke demonstrated during the conference. This function captures user interactions within the testing browser and converts them into code that can…

The developers behind Deno, the JavaScript and TypeScript runtime, are exploring the concept of JavaScript containers as a high-level alternative to traditional Linux containers. This initiative could reshape how developers think about containerization, offering a potentially simpler and more streamlined approach to running web services by leveraging the universality of JavaScript. According to Ryan Dahl, creator of both the Deno and Node.js runtimes, JavaScript’s position as a “universal scripting language” opens new possibilities for container-like abstractions that could redefine server-side development. In a recent blog post, Dahl highlighted the enduring utility of Linux containers, popularized by Docker, for distributing server…

Pulumi, a leading vendor in the infrastructure as code (IaC) space, has expanded its platform to support Java and YAML, providing developers with even more flexibility in managing and provisioning infrastructure. This move aligns with Pulumi’s commitment to enabling software developers to use their preferred programming languages rather than being confined to domain-specific languages or configuration formats. By integrating Java and improving YAML support, Pulumi continues to broaden its appeal among a diverse range of developers and enterprises. Pulumi’s open-source infrastructure as code SDK has always stood out for its ability to work with mainstream programming languages such as Python,…

JetBrains IDE users can now take advantage of cloud-based development through an exciting new integration with Gitpod. This collaboration, announced on April 27, allows developers to seamlessly access their source code hosted in temporary development environments directly from JetBrains IDEs running in the cloud. The integration leverages the capabilities of Gitpod’s platform alongside JetBrains Gateway, a remote development tool currently in beta, making it easier than ever for developers to work on their projects from virtually anywhere. Gitpod is an open-source platform designed to automate the provisioning and orchestration of developer environments. It allows developers to spin up cloud-based development…

Python is widely admired for its simplicity, versatility, and extensive ecosystem of libraries, but despite its many strengths, there are some features that many developers wish for that won’t be making their way into the language anytime soon. While Python continues to evolve and improve, a few commonly requested additions have been met with resistance or are simply not on the horizon. These are not necessarily bad ideas, but they highlight the trade-offs that come with Python’s design philosophy. One of the most frequently mentioned requests is the introduction of a statically typed, compiled version of Python. The idea of…