JetBrains Launches AI Assistant Integrated in its 2023.3 Release IDEs

JetBrains refreshes all of its IDEs in the last release of the year and promotes its integrated AI Assistant out of preview into general availability for paying customers. Besides its strong integration with the IDEs, JetBrains AI Assistant tries to stand out thanks to its support for multiple LLMs.

Bazel 7 Released With New Dependency Management System and More

Recently announced at BazelCon 23, Bazel 7 materializes several new features that have been in development for multiple years, including the new modular external dependency management system Bzlmod, a new optimizing “Build without the Bytes” mode, improved multi-target build performance thanks to Project Skymeld, and more.

Apple Debuts Post-Quantum Cryptography Cipher PQ3 for iMessage Communication

Apple announced a new quantum-resistant encryption protocol that will be used to secure iMessage communications, PQ3 against attack scenarios known as “harvest now, decrypt later”.

Lapce Is a Native Open-Source Code Editor Written in Rust and Supporting Remote Development

Written in Rust, Lapce sports a native GUI leveraging GPU acceleration and an extensible plugin system based on WASI. It comes with support for syntax highlighting, code completion, and code diagnostics using any LSP-compliant server.

Erlang-Runtime Statically-Typed Functional Language Gleam Reaches 1.0

Gleam, an actor-based highly-concurrent functional language running on the Erlang virtual machine (BEAM), has reached version 1.0, which means it is now ready to be used in production systems with a guarantee of backward compatibility based on semantic versioning.