Visual Studio Code Server Now Available in Private Preview

Microsoft has announced a private preview of the backend service that powers its Visual Studio Code editor, along with a specific CLI to manage it. Visual Studio Code Server can be installed everywhere and easily used through VS Code for the Web running in a browser.

Go 1.19 Improves Generics Performance and Refines its Memory Model

Go 1.19 focuses on improving the implementation of the toolchain, runtime, and libraries, especially for generics performance, the language memory model, and garbage collection.

Baidu Announces Superconducting Quantum Computer and Integration Solution

Baidu, the company behind the homonymous search engine, has announced its first quantum computing processor, named Qian Shi, along with an “all-platform” integration solution aimed to simplify access to quantum hardware resources via mobile, desktop, and the Cloud.

Rust 1.65 Brings Generic Associated Types in a Step Towards Higher-Kinded Types

The latest release of Rust introduces a powerful new language feature, called generic associated types, that allows developers to specify generics on associated types in traits. Other notable new features include the let-else statement, and support for breaking out of labeled blocks.

JetBrains Previews Aqua, New Test Automation-Oriented IDE

JetBrains Aqua, now available in preview, is a new IDE focusing on test automation and integrating a number of distinct tools that are at the core of an automation engineer’s daily routine, says JetBrains. Its features include multi-language support, an HTTP client and a Web inspector, database management, integrated Docker support, and more.