Swift 3.1 Enters its Final Development Stage

Apple’s Swift team has made public their release plan for Swift 3.1, expected to be available in the Spring of 2017 and source-compatible with Swift 3.0, writes Apple’s language and runtimes manager Ted Kremenek.

Visual Studio Code 1.8 Adds Hot Exit, Zen Mode, More Debugging Options

The newly released Visual Studio 1.8 brings many improvements and new features, including Hot Exit to prevent losing any edits, Zen Mode to make focusing on code easier, new debugging features, more accessible settings, etc.

Idris Getting Close to Version 1.0

Dependent types-based language Idris will soon reach version 0.99, which can be viewed as an alpha release of 1.0, according to the Idris team. Idris 1.0 is expected sometime around February 2017.

Rust 1.14 Brings Experimental WebAssembly Support and Rustup 1.0

Rust 1.14 introduces WebAssembly as a new experimental target and extends the .. syntax for pattern matching, writes the Rust core team. Additionally, rustup is now stable and is the recommended way to build Rust from sources.

Google’s Brotli Compression Algorithm Lands to Windows Edge

Microsoft has announced that its Edge browser has started using Brotli, the compression algorithm that Google open-sourced last year.