Developer Snapshot: The little news from last week

Here’s a little overview of everything for the weekend that didn’t make it into the news, but we still think is exciting:

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• Software Providers JetBrains has free online clubs announced for students. These will run from October 2024 to the end of May 2025 and revolve around mathematics, artificial intelligence and coding. Among other things, the coding club will host weekly competitions and the AI ​​club will offer weekly lectures and live sessions. In the math club, participants will receive a set of 15 problems each week with an increasing level of difficulty.
• Devographics is the team behind developer surveys on JavaScript, React, and CSS, among others Started current survey on HTML. Anyone who wants to participate can do so until October 1, 2024. The survey should take about 10 to 15 minutes.
• Qt Tools for Android Studio Available in version 3.0. The new major version of the software can be used to integrate the QML (Qt Modeling Language) language into Android Studio projects Qt 6.8 The bypass, which is scheduled to appear on October 3, 2024.
• Torch-TensorRT provides version 2.4 Official C++ runtime support under Windows, which applies only to the Dynamo frontend. This means that Windows users can now use these in addition to the Python runtime. Use of Python 3.12 is possible for the first time with this release. Torch-TensorRT is a PyTorch, TorchScript, and FX compiler for Nvidia’s TensorRT framework.

• Microsoft is designing it Blog Sites for Developers New: The revised design gives more space to content and makes navigation more intuitive. The color scheme is more modern and subtle. Now all pages show breadcrumbs (short keywords) at the top, which improves orientation. There are also reading recommendations and the most important keywords for each article.

• Corretto 23, Amazon version of OpenJDK 23has appeared. According to AWS, Corretto is free, open source, multiplatform, and production-ready. Support runs until April 2025.
• GitHub has it Copilot Extension Advanced to public beta status. Anyone interested can now develop extensions for the AI ​​coding assistant for whatever purpose A special toolkit Available. Visual Studio, VS Code and GitHub.com are supported, while JetBrains has yet to follow.
• There’s now one for the Couchbase database Object Relational Mapper (ORM) for Ruby. and Ruby on Rails. The mapper facilitates interactions between the framework and the database as developers use Ruby objects such as data.
• GitLab Updates OpenSSL in Linux packages to version 17.5 For OpenSSL 3. This makes TLS 1.2 the minimum requirement for SSL connections. If you require a lower TLS standard, you should stick with GitLab 17.4.

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