IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation 7.0 now Supports Cloudant, REST, oAuth

Version 7 of IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation introduces many new features and enhancements to “enable enterprises to accelerate the delivery of their mobile strategy” by making development more efficient, supporting continuous delivery, and improving user experience, says IBM.

Xamarin.Studio 5.9 Now Supports C# 6

The recently released Xamarin.Studio 5.9 adds support for C# 6, improvements to Sketches, new debugger’s visualizers, and more.

Build iOS/Android Libraries in Common Lisp with LispWorks

LispWorks 7.0 adds new runtime systems for both the Android and iOS platform to allow the creation of UI-less libraries that can be used in native mobile apps.

Cling Aims to Provide a High-performance C++ REPL

Cling is an interactive C++ interpreter that is built on top of LLVM and Clang and promises to provide a leap in productivity by going beyond the usual code-compile-run-debug C++ workflow.

Multi-repository Development at Google

Oftentimes, complex software projects span across multiple repositories on account of external dependencies. This can be a challenge in itself, explains Google WebRTC engineer Patrik Höglund, who also described Google’s approach to developing software that uses dozens of third-party libraries such as Chrome.