It’s that time of year again! The 2018 Packt Skill Up Report is out and loud! With 8000 respondents and 6 focus tracks, it gives a detailed picture of the tools and trends that define how software developers work today. In this article, we take a closer look at web development: What technologies are currently number one and what does the future hold?

The GitLab Web IDE is hardly new considering that it was introduced with the beta version in GitLab 10.4. Nonetheless, it was only a couple of days ago that Dimitrie Hoekstra, UX Designer at GitLab, shared some insights into the thought process behind the creation of the Web IDE. Here, we have a closer look at the IDE and the most interesting facts behind its creation.

Every Monday we take a step back and take a look at all the cool stuff that went down during the previous week. Last week was packed with news about OpenJFX 11 and JDK 11, we had a look at Kotlin 1.2.50 and Angular v6.1.0 beta.1, and more!

Playtime never ends in the Go world; there’s something new you can play with every day! This time, it’s an experimental superset for Go. Ladies and Gentlemen, meet Fo!

Previously, we had a close look at the results of the 2018 JetBrains’ State of Developer Ecosystem survey with a focus on Java. Here, we present you the most interesting and fun highlights on a number of languages and technologies.

What is sharding? And how can we use it to change the future of payment scalability? In this article, Delton Rhodes gives us an overview of sharding and its implementations, limitation, and future.

It’s new; it’s fresh: it’s friendly! Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Jetpack, a package manager for R and the newest arrival among package managers!

JetBrains polled 6,000 developers to identify the State of Developer Ecosystem and now the results are here. This time we’re focusing solely on Java and what Java developers prefer to use these days. Let’s dig in!

Cuteness overload! Corgi, the CLI workflow manager is here to make your life easier by providing a list of features for creating and managing reusable snippets.

The second WildFly Final release, after the initiation of the new quarterly delivery model, is here and it has quite a list of new features and improvements!

It has been a crazy couple of days for the programming community. GitHub’s acquisition by Microsoft has dropped like an atomic bomb creating panic and/or excitement for the new era that rises for not only GitHub, but all the git-based platforms. GitLab appears to be the first to make the most out of this interesting turn of events.

The 2018 Node.js User Survey results are online! The survey provides data on a wide range of topics with extremely interesting results. What is the expected change in the use of Node.js? What are the most used languages in addition to Node? Let’s find out!

The “parent” of social coding, GitHub, was acquired by Microsoft for an eye-popping $7.5 billion. Here’s what we know so far.

The veteran of the JVM languages is here with a brand new release stuffed with groundbreaking enhancements and a promising roadmap! Here, we have a look at the highlights of the latest release and we go over some remaining issues.