ESLint, the widely adopted JavaScript and TypeScript linter, released version 10, marking its most significant breaking-change milestone since the flat config system was introduced. The release finalises years of incremental architectural work, removes long-deprecated APIs, and ships a set of developer experience improvements aimed squarely at plugin authors and monorepo teams. The most consequential change … Read more
The new, experimental Web Install API is now in Origin Trial in Microsoft Edge and Chrome. The API allows developers to programmatically trigger a PWA installation prompt from in-app user interactions. The API aims to simplify software discovery and distribution, particularly for users who are unaware of the install icon in the browser’s address bar … Read more
At QCon London 2026, James Hall presented Running AI at the Edge: Running Real Workloads Directly in the Browser demonstrating how browser-native inference using tools like Transformers.js, WebLLM, and WebGPU can deliver practical AI workloads without sending data to third-party cloud providers. Hall is the founder and tech director at Parallax and creator of jsPDF. … Read more
Google has added a full-stack coding environment to Google AI Studio, centred on a new coding agent called Antigravity. The update is designed to turn text prompts into working web applications within the same interface. It adds built-in Firebase services for database storage and user authentication, and expands framework support to include Next.js alongside React … Read more
The HTML Invoker Commands API has achieved baseline support across all major browsers, with Safari 26.2 completing the rollout following earlier releases in Chrome 135 and Firefox 144. The feature introduces declarative button controls that eliminate the need for JavaScript when working with popovers, dialogs, and other interactive elements. The Invoker Commands API adds two … Read more
VoidZero has announced the alpha version of Oxfmt, a Rust-based code formatter designed to bring significant performance improvements to JavaScript and TypeScript projects. The formatter, which is part of VoidZero’s broader Oxc toolchain initiative, delivers formatting speeds more than 30 times faster than Prettier while maintaining over 95% compatibility with Prettier’s output. Oxfmt addresses a … Read more
At its Build 2025 conference, Microsoft announced plans to open source over the next few months the code behind the GitHub Copilot Chat extension under the MIT license and refactor core AI capabilities directly into the main VS Code codebase. The move, if completed, may affect the ability of current for-pay AI code editors to … Read more
At its Build 2025 conference, Microsoft announced plans to open source over the next few months the code behind the GitHub Copilot Chat extension under the MIT license and refactor core AI capabilities directly into the main VS Code codebase. The move, if completed, may affect the ability of current for-pay AI code editors to … Read more
At its Build 2025 conference, Microsoft announced Edit, a new open-source command-line text editor, to be distributed in the future as part of Windows 11. Edit aims to provide a lightweight native, modern command-line editing experience similar to Nano and Vim. Microsoft explained developing Edit because 64-bit Windows lacked a default command-line text editor, a … Read more
Transcript Ene: We’re going to talk about how we rebuilt a Prime Video UI for living room devices with Rust and WebAssembly, and the journey that got us there. I’m Alex. I’ve been a principal engineer with Amazon for about eight years. We’ve been working with Rust for a while actually in our tech stack … Read more