Most programming languages follow a familiar trajectory: early experimental releases, rapid iteration, and then – at some point – a 1.0 version that signals stability and the potential for serious adoption. Zig hasn’t followed that well-trodden path. What could be the reason? Andrew Kelley quit his job in 2018 to build …

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A fresh edition of Java Annotated Monthly has landed! The world of software development keeps moving at full speed, and this month’s selection helps you keep up without drowning in tabs. Inside, you’ll find hand-picked articles, podcasts, videos, and thought-provoking reads covering Java, Kotlin, AI, and the …

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We’ve just released IntelliJ IDEA 2026.1.3. You can update to this version from inside the IDE, using the Toolbox App, or using snaps if you are a Ubuntu user. You can also download it from our website. The latest update brings the following improvements: For a comprehensive overview of the fixes, see the release …

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Some plugin code follows this pattern: Historically, it was reasonable to assume that once the save finishes, the file on disk already contains the latest editor text. That is no longer guaranteed. The IntelliJ Platform can now update the VFS first and finish the disk write in the background a bit later. Code that …

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IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3.6 is now available with the latest Oracle critical patch update for Java 21. The update includes the corresponding JetBrains Runtime changes and fixes the issue [IDEA-389015], providing improved reliability and security. You can update to this version from inside the IDE, using the Toolbox App, or …

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RustWeek 2026 brought more than 900 Rust developers, educators, and maintainers to Utrecht, Netherlands, for a few days of talks, hallway conversations, community meetups, hackathons, and workshops about all things Rust. As a Gold sponsor for the third year in a row, the RustRover team joined the event to support the …

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The Kotlin 2.4.0 release is out! Here are the main highlights: For the complete list of changes, refer to What’s new in Kotlin 2.4.0 or the release notes on GitHub. How to install Kotlin 2.4.0 The latest version of Kotlin is included in the latest versions of IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio. To update to […] Link to …

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WPF Hot Reload is now available in Rider, starting with the 2026.2 EAP 2 build. You can edit your XAML while your app is running under the debugger and see the changes immediately, with no rebuild, no restart, and no losing your place in the application. Together with the C# Hot Reload support that’s already […] Link …

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Toolbox App 3.5 focuses on making daily work smoother and managed development environments easier to monitor. The app now supports interface zooming with familiar shortcuts, provides OpenTelemetry metrics for enterprise remote development connections, and handles several long-standing reliability issues more …

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In 2026, the world of AI is changing at a serious pace. The days of AI systems dealing solely in single-prompt interactions are coming to an end. Instead, these models are evolving into agentic systems – long-running, goal-driven software enabled by agentic frameworks that are becoming a critical layer in modern …

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The moment a plugin needs account data, a simple API call turns into an authentication problem. The bad shortcut is familiar: ask the user to create a personal access token (PAT), make them paste it into settings, and hope it never leaks. For a JetBrains IDE plugin, use this flow instead: the user clicks the […] Link …

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Trained from scratch and designed for practical deployment, Mellum2 is built for routing, Q&A, sub-agents, and private AI use in software engineering systems. Today, we’re open-sourcing Mellum2, a 12B model engineered to solve the hardest parts of production AI: latency, throughput, and cost. Built from scratch and …

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Most TypeScript projects already run ESLint with @typescript-eslint. That covers a lot: explicit any, floating promises, non-null assertions, and more. If your linting setup is solid, you’re catching the obvious issues in the editor before code review. ESLint rules can’t produce cross-file findings. Each rule runs …

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