Rust 2018 Will Focus on Productivity, WebAssembly, Embedded, and More

The Rust core team has announced the official roadmap for Rust in 2018, which brings productivity to the fore and targets four main domains: Web services, WebAssembly, CLI apps, and embedded devices.

GitHub Licensed Aims to Make it Easier to Comply with OSS Licenses

GitHub Licensed is an open-source tool that aims to simplify the chore of ensuring license soundness and documentation for all dependencies of a GitHub project.

GitHub Security Alerts Detected over Four Million Vulnerabilities

Launched last October, GitHub security alerts significantly reduced the time it takes for developers to remove vulnerabilities from their Ruby and JavaScript projects, says GitHub.

Rust 1.25 Moves to LLVM 6

Rust 1.25 upgrades its LLVM to LLVM 6, adds support for nested import groups in use statements, custom struct alignment, and library stabilizations. This latest Rust release does not include, though, much awaited features such as impl Trait, stable SIMD support, and 128-bit integers.

Git 2.17 Improves Moved Code Diffs and Object Search

Git latest release, version 2.17, brings a multiplicity of improvements and minor new features, including better moved code coloring, finding objects in history, and more.