Programming news bulletin - Thursday 26 April

Welcome to this week's programming news bulletin. There's some interesting news about Qt, and just weeks after the release of Java 10, you can check out the upcoming specs for Java 11.

Programming news from the Packt Hub

• JetBrains ReSharper Ultimate 2018.1 is now available for download

Programming news from across the the web

• Java 11 Specifications out for public review. Java's new release cycle is bringing updates and changes at an impressive pace. You can now review what's going to be coming in Java 11.
• Oracle tell Java SE 8 users that they need to buy a licence from 2019.
• Introducing Quart, a Python web microframework based on Asyncio. Quart is a bit like Flask. But it's been built to tackle one of Flask's few weaknesses - the fact that it is incompatible with Asyncio.
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• Qt comes to the browser. The popular UI tool is now interoperable with WebAssembly. That should help Qt become more popular with JavaScript developers. It hasn't yet captured the web development market, but perhaps this is a step in that direction.
• GitLab 10.7 has been released.
• Vcpkg: Microsoft's C++ library manager is now available on Linux, macOS and Windows.
• Warehouse is the next generation Package Manager for Python.
• Scala 2.1.4 and Scala 3 roadmap out.
• Kotlin 1.2.40 is out!