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Pants Build System Adds Support for Java, Scala, and Go
In its upcoming release, now available to early adopters, build system Pants adds Java, Scala, and Go to previously supported Python. InfoQ has spoken with Benjy Weinberger, one of the creator of Pants alongside John Sirois, and currently CEO of Toolchain, Pants' main sponsor.
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Apache Spark Brings Pandas API with Version 3.2
The Apache Spark team has integrated the Pandas API in the product's latest 3.2 release. With this change, dataframe processing can be scaled to multiple clusters or multiple processors in a single machine using the PySpark execution engine.
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Comparative Study of 11 CSS-in-JS Libraries - Andrei Pfeiffer at React Finland 2021
Andrei Pfeiffer recently presented the results of a comparative study of 11 CSS-in-JS libraries. In his talk at React Finland 2021, Pfeiffer focused on the distinction between static and runtime CSS-in-JS libraries and further explained how each category and browser caching relate to performance.
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Grails 5.0 Updates Underlying Frameworks and Consolidates Features
Grails 5.0 has been released, featuring deprecation of the "dot"-Based Navigation to configuration, default autowire by type in Data Services, the decoupling of Grails Gradle Plugin from the grails-core and the Grails Gradle Publish plugin was removed from the Grails plugin applications. Also, this release includes Apache Groovy 3, Micronaut 3, Gradle 7, Spring Boot 2.5, Spring 5.3 and Spock 2.0.
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Gatsby 4 - More Than a Static Content Generator
Gatsby 4, the latest iteration of the popular static site generator, is now out, offering developers improved build speeds alongside new ways for delivering content.
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TensorFlow Similarity Supports Fast Query Search Index on Pre-trained Models
Francois Chollet and his team recently released a Python library for TensorFlow, called TensorFlow Similarity. Similarity learning is the process of finding similar items, from similar clothes in images to person identification using face pictures. Deep-learning models have used a method called contrastive learning to increase accuracy and efficiency in learning similarity between images.
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Streamlining the Handoff between Designers and Developers - Travis Arnold at React Finland 2021
Travis Arnold recently presented how JSX and compiler technologies can be used conjointly to make the handoff between designers and developers more efficient. While the ideas presented are not yet implemented in any publicly available tool or library, the ideas of Arnold, who describes himself as a designer/developer, may serve to illustrate possible avenues for improved collaboration.
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Ionic Portals Aims to Simplify the Integration of Web Apps into iOS and Android Native Code
Ionic describes its new web view component, Ionic Portals, as a "supercharged" version of the native web view controls available on iOS and Android. It aims to make it easier for developers to integrate web apps with native code in an efficient way.
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Scikit-learn 1.0 Supports Spline Transformers, Quantile Regression and Improved Plotting API
Scikit-learn, the popular Python-based machine learning (ML) library, has released version 1.0. Although the library has been stable for some time, and the release contains no breaking changes, the project maintainers opted for a major version revision to signal to users that the software is mature and production-ready.
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WICG Publishes New HTML Sanitizer API Proposal against mXSS Attacks
The Web Platform Incubator Community Group recently published the Draft Community Group Report for the HTML Sanitizer API. The HTML Sanitizer API lets developers take untrusted strings of HTML and sanitize those strings for safe insertion into a document’s DOM. The most common use case of HTML string sanitization is to prevent cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
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100,000+ Lines of Elm Code in Production: Rakuten Shares Lessons Learnt
E-commerce company Rakuten recently shared its experience using Elm in production for two years. Its codebase spans several applications totaling 100,000 lines of Elm code. Rakuten highly valued Elm’s Functional UI approach, its type system, and the absence of runtime exceptions. However, Elm not being a mainstream language, resulted in less reusable resources on Google search and Stack Overflow.
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Qwik, a Resumable Javascript Framework
Qwik is a DOM-centric JavaScript framework that aims to provide the quickest TTI (or time to interactive) by focusing on resumability for server-side rendering of HTML and optimized lazy loading of code.
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Flow Type Checker No Longer Just JavaScript with Types, Centers of Facebook Needs
Vladan Djeric, engineering manager supporting the Flow team at Facebook, announced that the Flow type checker will go beyond being just JavaScript with types and introduce new features based on Facebook’s internal user needs. In particular, Flow strives to deliver fast type-checking on large, complicated codebases. Flow’s vision is in contrast with TypeScript’s — JavaScript with syntax for types.
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Lit 2 Ships with New Custom Directives and Reactive APIs
The Lit Team recently released Lit 2.0, more than two years after Lit 1. Lit 2 features a new API for custom directives that include asynchronous directives. Lit 2 users will also be able to use reactive controllers to encapsulate reusable reactive logic.
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Parcel 2: Rust-Based 10x Faster JavaScript Compiler, Modular Configuration, Differential Bundling
The team behind the zero-config bundler Parcel recently announced the first Parcel 2 release candidate. Parcel 2 is a ground up rewrite of Parcel that has been two years in the making. Parcel’s new JavaScript compiler is written in Rust and boasts 10x build performance improvement. Parcel 2 is fully extensible, supports automatic differential bundling, and much more.