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.

GitLab 8.15 Introduces Auto Deploy and Web Terminal

The latest GitLab version, 8.15, provides new CD/CI features aimed to automate deployments on a variety of platforms and to make it easier to reach your staging or production deployments through a command line interface.