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Did you know? Ever wondered why C# uses the semicolon to terminate a statement? Obviously it comes from the C/C++ heritage it shares with other languages like Java, but where did C get it from? That would be Algol, where the semicolon was used to separate statements. But why the semicolon? In natural language grammar, …
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It’s no secret that agentic development is changing how developers build software. As agents take on more and more of the implementation work, developers spend less and less time manually editing code. For this manual work, they might only need a basic, narrow set of features that IDEs provide, like navigating to …
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Hi everyone! July gave me plenty to celebrate: Kotlin turned 15, got its first public benchmark for AI coding agents, became available in BlueJ, and shipped its 2.4.10 release. Developers can also demonstrate their skills at RevenueCat Shipaton 2026 by building a Kotlin Multiplatform app and competing for the Ship …
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Let’s talk about the elephant in every data scientist’s room (or in this case, the panda). You’ve probably touched pandas before, even if nobody introduced you two properly. Ever opened a CSV file in Python and tried to make sense of it? Sorted a column, dropped some junk rows, and prayed a merge would work? […] Link …
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Over the past six months at JetBrains, our AI development expenses have increased roughly 10x. When the costs started rising, of course we noticed – and realized that we simply didn’t know how to control them systematically. We didn’t know because our developers don’t just use the AI tools we build. They decide for …
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Somewhere in your notes there’s an app idea waiting for a free weekend that never comes. Consider this its official deadline: RevenueCat Shipaton 2026, the world’s biggest mobile hackathon, runs August 1 to September 30. If you know Kotlin, that idea is closer to the App Store than you think. Join the Shipaton The Ship …
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As .NET developers, we need to iterate on our applications while building, and part of that developer inner loop is the debugging experience. The rise of multi-platform code editors further requires developers to have all the functionality they need to build and debug their application out of the box, wherever they’re …
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This is a guest post from Naa Ashiorkor, a data scientist and tech community builder. Building intelligent systems that can see, hear, understand language, and make decisions was previously the domain of specialized researchers with massive computing resources only – today, deep learning has made this accessible to …
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Qodana 2026.2 makes it easier for development teams to act on code quality, security, and compliance findings throughout the development workflow. This release introduces clearer code coverage insights for pull requests, highlights uncovered new lines directly in the IDE, and automatically detects coverage reports in …
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This tutorial was written by an external contributor. APIs are frequent targets for bad actors since they expose data and functionality. Securing them while maintaining usability is often one of the most challenging and time-consuming parts of API development. OAuth 2.0 and JSON Web Tokens (JWT) help make these …
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