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JetBrains IDEs have worked with WSL for many years, and over time, several ways of using it have emerged across our products. Depending on the entry point, the IDE could rely on a different underlying architecture,…
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the 5.4.0 release of the Spring Tools for Visual Studio Code, Cursor, Eclipse, Theia - and Claude Code. Hightlights New Validations &…
Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter for the latest updates from the Spring Ecosystem. In this episode, Dan and DaShaun broadcast live from the Kansas City Developer Conference, one of the largest community driven developer…
Somewhere in every coding agent there is an HTTP client. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Cline, OpenCode: strip away the terminal UI or the editor pane and each of them serializes a conversation into JSON, POSTs it to a…
What gets preserved and what gets lost when you compile a language that was designed, from its first line of syntax, to be dynamic. Open a Crystal file next to a Ruby file and for the first ten lines you might not be…
When multiple threads access and modify the same variable, unexpected results can occur due to race conditions. A simple int variable is not thread-safe when it is updated concurrently. Java provides the AtomicInteger…
Virtual Threads are one of the most important improvements to Java concurrency in recent years. They make it possible to run a very large number of concurrent tasks without creating the same number of expensive…
A few weeks ago I posted on r/java about detecting virtual thread pinning from a plain thread dump. The technical discussion was fine. The comment that stuck with me had nothing to do with pinning: "the problem isn't…
Neil Gunther’s Universal Scalability Law adds a second penalty term to Amdahl’s Law, and that one term explains a failure mode Amdahl’s original model cannot: throughput that goes down as you add more concurrency, not…
