Welcome to Wednesday's Inside Dev!
In yesterday's poll, I asked if you thought Google is intentionally removing cookies and site data for Google.com and YouTube, as we reported on here. Here are the results:
- 83.37% of you all said "Yes, it's intentional."
- 16.67% of you all said "No, it's not intentional."
In other news, in today's issue, I've published an analysis of developer trends over the past two years using the data from Stack Overflow surveys to help readers find out what skills, tools, and trends they need to know to stay ahead of the game.
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The Node.js team released Node.js v15.0.0. Click here to download the new release.
Notable Node.js v15.0.0 changes include:
- The release of npm 7, which comes with new features such as npm workspaces, support for yarn.lock files, and a new package-lock.json format, while peer dependencies are now installed automatically
- An experimental implementation of AbortController, describe as a global utility class based on the AbortController Web API you can use to signal cancelation in Promise-based APIs you choose.
- The new N-API 7, which comes with additional methods for working with ArrayBuffers
- The default mode for unhandledRejection has been changed to throw (from warn)
- Experimental support for QUIC, which can be enabled by compiling Node.js with the
--experimental-quic configuration flag
- V8 JavaScript engine has been updated to V8 8.6
- The ability to kick off CI runs and land commits by adding a GitHub label
More:
- The Node.js team also announced the Next 10 Years of Node.js effort, which aims to reflect on the past decade of Node.js and plan for its future based on what has worked, and has so far resulted in the Technical Values document.
- Click here for a full list of new changes in Node.js v15.0.0.
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Important Node.js Dates You Should Know To Avoid Breaking Changes:
- Node.js 14 is due to be promoted to LTS...
- Node.js 10...
To read this feature, where we routinely spotlight important upcoming data for major web development languages and tools, start your free 14-day trial of Inside Dev Premium today. When you do, you'll also be able to check out other exclusive past content, such as:
- The October 2020 calendar, listing out virtual events and hackathons by each week to help you stay ahead of the game as a part of the monthly and weekly calendar series.
- "What's Going At..." Series: Uncover the secrets behind the best engineering teams at the top companies in the world like FAANG and catch up with they are up to in seconds.
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Firefox 82 is now available. Some highlights from the new release:
- DevTools now displays server sent events in the Network panel, making it possible for a server to send new data to a web page at any time
- Support for the Media Session API, which allows developers to offer custom behaviors for standard media playback interactions
- New CSS pseudo-selector behaviors, such as the standard
::file-selector-button pseudo-element, which allows you to select and style the file selection button inside <input type=”file”> elements.
For a detailed list of changes, click here.
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React v17.0.0 is now available. Unlike previous releases, the new version doesn't come with any new developer-facing features, but rather improvements making it easier to upgrade React. As a result, it will now be possible to upgrade your app to future React versions either all at one, or piece by piece.
More:
- To enable gradual upgrades, React changed how React attaches events to the DOM under the hood. Event handlers will be attached to the root DOM container into which a React tree is rendered.
- View a full list of new changes in this release here.
- The release comes a week after the React team also revealed the new JSX transform feature will be supported by React 17, as well as React 16.14.0, 15.7.0, and 0.14.10.
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Deep Dive: Find out what skills, tools, and trends you need to know to stay ahead of the game through today's analysis of developer trends over the past two years (and some of 2020 so far) based on Stack Overflow survey data.
Demographics:
- There's been a significant in the "Others" category over the past two years, which includes those from the LGBT community. However...
- Responses from those in the U.S. and Germany have increased from 2018 to 2019, with the USA having almost double the respondents compared to India. India, meanwhile, has...
Languages:
- As a result of the pandemic, some new tools have become...
Education:
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IBM's cloud revenue grew by more than 60%, while IBM subsidiary Red Hat’s revenue increased by 17% for Q3 2020. IBM overall announced revenue of $17.6b for Q3 2020 with a YoY decrease of 2.6%, as well as a net income of $1.7b, similar to the same period last year.
More:
- On Oct. 8, the company announced that it would spin-off its managed infrastructures unit as a separate company to focus on its cloud platform led by Red Hat and in growing markets like AI and hybrid cloud. IBM acquired Red Hat in a $34b deal last year.
- The company’s Global Technology Division accounts for the largest part of its revenue. The division generated revenue of $6.5b, down 4% YoY.
- IBM’s share prices are down 12% since the beginning of the year, while the S&P 500 index is up 6% for the same period.
A version of this story first appeared in Inside Business.
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Quick Hits:
- Microsoft is partnering with SpaceX to take on Amazon Web Services, with Microsoft connecting its Azure cloud computing software into SpaceX's satellites.
- The OpenStack Foundation has rebranded itself as the Open Infrastructure Foundation to reflects the fact the Foundation now covers a variety of open-source cloud and container technologies beyond the IaaS cloud.
- Chargebee’s Change Summit gathers the world’s leading champions of change, including Guy Kawasaki, David Cancel (Drift), and Bill Macaitis (ex Slack). Save your seat.*
*This is a sponsored post.
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