V8 7.2 Beta releases with support for public class fields, well-formed JSON.stringify, and more
Google’s JavaScript and WebAssembly engine, V8 has hit V8 7.2 yesterday and is currently in beta. The stable version of this release will be...
Key trends in software development in 2019: cloud native and the shrinking stack
Bill Gates is quoted as saying that we tend to overestimate the pace of change over a period of 2 years, but underestimate change...
Chromium-based Brave browser shows 22% faster page load time than its Muon-based counterpart
Back in March this year, the Brave team shared their plans of replacing their desktop Muon runtime, with a more comprehensive Chromium stack for...
Introducing Basilisk, an open source XUL based browser and “close twin” to pre-Servo Firefox
Yesterday, the team behind Pale Moon, an open-source web browser introduced Basilisk, which is supposedly a “close twin to Mozilla's Firefox”. Basilisk is an...
Drupal 9 will be released in 2020, shares Dries Buytaert, Drupal’s founder
At Drupal Europe 2018, Dries Buytaert, the founder and lead developer of the Drupal content management system announced that Drupal 9 will be released...
Google’s V8 7.2 and Chrome 72 gets public class fields syntax; private class...
Yesterday, Google announced that they are introducing the public class fields in V8 7.2 and Chrome 72 and will be shipping the private class...
Facebook retires its open source contribution to Nuclide, Atom IDE, and other associated repos
Yesterday, the Facebook Open Source team announced that they will no longer be able to contribute to the open source development of the Nuclide...
Mozilla releases Firefox 64 and Firefox 65 beta
After releasing Firefox 63 in October this year, Mozilla announced the availability of Firefox 64, yesterday. This release comes with support for multiple tab...
dav1d 0.1.0, the AV1 decoder by VideoLAN, is here
Yesterday, Jean-Baptiste Kempf, VideoLAN president announced dav1d 0.1.0. dav1d is an AV1 decoder from VideoLAN, the same company that offers the popular VLC Media...
GitHub plans to deprecate GitHub services and move to Webhooks in 2019
On April 25, this year, GitHub announced that it will be shutting down GitHub Services in order to focus on other areas of the...
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Thunderbird welcomes the new year with better UI, Gmail support and...
The year 2018 proved to be interesting for the team at Thunderbird, a free email application, as they released the latest ESR, Thunderbird 60,...
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