Day: April 4, 2020

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GitHub for mobile is now available

At Universe, we announced GitHub for mobile as a fully-native GitHub experience on iOS and Android. Now, you can stay in touch with your team, triage issues, and even merge code, right from your mobile device, anywhere.

Your response to the beta has been incredible—beta testers have commented on, reviewed, and merged nearly one hundred thousand pull requests in the last few weeks alone. And there’s been tens of thousands of team interactions since we first released the beta for download. Today, both the iOS and Android versions of GitHub for mobile are out of beta and generally available. Get the app from the Google Play or App Store.
Read more here.

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Windows Subsystem for Linux

Last week, Microsoft and Canonical (the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution) were scheduled to host a developer conference focused on the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) at Microsoft’s Redmond campus. Ars was invited, and I had plane tickets in hand—but the physical conference was canceled at the last minute due to the coronavirus…. Read more here.

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Java 14 new features

Oracle ships Java 14 with new preview, productivity features

With Java 14, Oracle delivers features to the Java language and platform that enhance the productivity of developers building new enterprise applications. Read more here.

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Theia

The new open-source Cloud & Desktop IDE alternative to Visual Studio Code from Eclipse Foundation. Read more here.

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McKinsey : Plan-ahead teams: Getting ahead of the next stage of the crisis

Close on the heels of the coronavirus outbreak, the next wave of disruption—the biggest economic shock since World War II—is headed our way. And it isn’t just an economic shock: it is a shock to customer behaviors and business models too. The challenges associated with it will be orders of magnitude bigger than what we are used to dealing with. To handle them, you need to adopt an operating model that accommodates the extreme level of uncertainty facing your business. Read the post here.