Tailwind Labs lays off 75 percent of its engineers thanks to 'brutal impact' of AI

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Updated: Tailwind Labs CEO Adam Wathan, inventor of the popular open source Tailwind CSS framework, this week confirmed that "75…

Microsoft open sources XAML Studio amid developer discontent with Visual Studio designers

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In another twist to Visual Studio's long-running designer drought, the near-forgotten XAML Studio has been open sourced - though this…

Rust boosted by permanent adoption for Linux kernel code

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Use of the Rust programming language in the Linux kernel is no longer experimental, following a decision at the 2025…

VS Code update brings agent overload, TypeScript 7 preview, and the end of IntelliCode

AI/ML Tim Anderson -
Microsoft has updated Visual Studio Code (VS Code), the most popular programmer’s editor, with Agent HQ alongside numerous agentic coding…

Research: AI can help or hinder software development, and old-style best practices make the difference

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Generative AI can write lots of code but its overall impact on developer productivity is more nuanced. Research from Atlassian’s…

JetBrains abandons Fleet IDE, pins hopes on forthcoming Air agentic development tool

AI/ML Tim Anderson -
Developer tools company JetBrains is discontinuing its Fleet IDE, which was introduced in 2021 but never made it out of…

AWS shows Rust love at re:Invent: 10 times faster than Kotlin, one tenth the latency of Go

Development Tim Anderson -
At its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas last week, AWS described how it now uses Rust by default for certain…

Akamai buys Fermyon for Wasm-based serverless functions – a possible answer to Cloudflare workers

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Akamai, a long-established content delivery network (CDN) company, has acquired WebAssembly start-up Fermyon, with the aim of attracting more developers…

Bun JavaScript runtime acquired by Anthropic, tying its future to AI coding

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The Bun JavaScript runtime has been acquired by Anthropic, which already uses the product for deploying Claude Code. Anthropic said…

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