Developer Snapshots: Programmer news in one or two sentences

Here is the quite subjective selection of smaller news items from the past few days:

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• The provider Parasoft, which specializes in testing tools for embedded software, has C/C++test 2023.2 submitted. The new version enables developers to ensure compliance with the MISRA C++ 2023 standard for their code. In addition, the update promises additional analysis and reporting options as well as support for additional compilers – including IAR BX ARM, Qualcomm Hexagon, Tasking SmartCode, GNU GCC and Clang for various platforms.
• According to CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) the final version of the GitOps tool Flux 2.2.0 officially ready. The most important innovations are Priyanka “Pinky” Ravi and Max Werner on December 18th as part of a demo before. Among other things, the helmet controller and its voting model. In addition, the Flux CLI now allows bootstrapping Gitea repositories.
• With regular updates, JetBrains has its development environment based on ReSharper and IntelliJ Rider adapted to the .NET SDK 8.0 in version 2023.3. The AI ​​Assistant introduced in the previous release has now left the preview phase. Developers can also use the extended features of C# 12 provided by ReSharper 2023.3.
• version 3.3 of the Ruby programming language is entering the home stretch with the first release candidate. The most important innovation is the integration of the Prism parser. The final release can be expected around Christmas, like every year.
• The tool deadcode finds dead code in Go programs, i.e. code that is not accessible because it is never called or used. About the parameter whylive It also shows the chained calls to a function.

• As a tool for integration testing with Docker, the Java library Testcontainers has gained a permanent place in the developer community in recent years. After the project became one of the fastest growing on Docker Hub in the current year, according to those responsible for Docker, Docker announced its acquisition of AtomicJar – the company behind Testcontainers.
• In the second preview for Visual Studio 2022 version 17.9 Among other things, Microsoft worked on development with C++ and .NET MAUI (Multi-Platform App UI). This means you can now run unit tests for C++ projects that target Linux or Windows Subsystem for Linux.
• The Kubernetes team points this outthat it is the old directories hosted on Google apt.kubernetes.io and yum.kubernetes.io for Linux packages is finally decommissioned. In the future, new Debian and RPM packages will only be found at pkgs.k8s.io.
• The W3C Advisory Committee has elected five new memberswhich will be available from February 1, 2024 W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG): Daniel Appelquist, Matthew Atkinson, Peter Linss, Dapeng Liu and Martin Thomson.
• According to the report “The State of Web Development | 2023” Composable Web Architecture, as an alternative to monolithic approaches, is becoming increasingly popular among web developers. For the report, Netlify surveyed around 6,500 participants worldwide and presents the complete results freely available after registration.

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