Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is set to become an official Linux distribution for Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), a Windows feature that allows users to run Linux environments on Windows without a separate virtual machine. The move was announced by Red Hat and Microsoft on November 19. While users already can run any…
As much as we love them, programming languages can often feel like straitjackets. They’re a complex bundle of syntactic rules, and if we break them–even once–the compiler starts screaming out error messages. There are conventions to define every little thing, such as the best way to name variables or how to indent your code. The…
Every enterprise today is looking to get as much as possible out of its data and AI investments. But when building in-house apps, developers can struggle with infrastructure constraints and maintenance, security, data governance, compliance, and other issues. “Companies want to build custom experiences,” Shanku Niyogi, VP of product at Databricks, told InfoWorld. However, “as…
The Clojure-based Humble UI is being developed as a framework for building high-quality desktop UIs. Humble UI’s GitHub page says the framework lets developers build better apps quickly while staying cross-platform. Humble’s principal developer, Nikita Prokopov, said work on Humble UI began in 2020. There is no set date for its completion, and it could…
