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Here's what's new and happening within our programming languages community

By Chandni Dinani posted Mon March 21, 2022 10:20 AM

  

Let's begin with the biggest announcement: IBM Z and Cloud Modernization Stack. On 18th Jan, 2022, IBM announced the IBM Z and Cloud Modernization Stack. The new IBM Z and Cloud Modernization Stack is designed to help you jumpstart or accelerate application modernization by taking a more standardized approach to IT automation on IBM Z in order to innovate faster with greater productivity and a lower cost.  So how did we contribute to the stack? Read here. 
For deeper insights about the role of programming languages within the stack, watch our on-demand webinar by @Roland Koo @Chad McIntyre —watch here.

Our team strives to maintain a high level of currency with the releases from the open-source community. And it's no surprise that we made multiple announcements since 4Q 2021. 

IBM Semeru Runtime Certified Edition for z/OS IBM Semeru Runtime Certified Edition for z/OS, Version 11, formerly known as IBM 64-bit SDK for z/OS, Java Technology Edition, delivers a high-performance Java runtime and development kit that supports Java 11 Standard Edition long-term support specification. 

 Read more in the official announcement letter
IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Node.js Open Enterprise SDK for Node.js 16.0, formerly known as IBM® SDK for Node.js - z/OS® provides a standalone JavaScript runtime and server-side JavaScript solution for building Node.js native and JavaScript modules for the IBM Z® platform. 
Node.js 16 community updates:

  • V8 JavaScript engine updated to version 9.
  • npm is updated to version 8.
  • Timers Promises API is now a stable feature.
  • Node-API is updated to version 8.
 Read more in the official announcement blog
IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python

 IBM improvements to Open Enterprise SDK for Python 3.10 include the following and more:

  • Improvements in fork and multiprocessing usability on z/OS. This improves multiprocessing execution when using these functions in Open Enterprise SDK for Python 3.10.
  • Improved support for installing from wheels on z/OS. Fixes implemented to improve encoding and file tagging when you use the Python wheel package to install a package on z/OS.
  • Fixes in scenarios in which Python performed auto-conversion on ttys.
 Read more in the official announcement blog
IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Go

 IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Go 1.17 is now available! Except for numerous additional improvements and bug fixes, this release also has some key new features.
 
Open-source community features
IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Go 1.17 brings significant features from the open-source community:
  • Lazy module loading supported to avoid processing irrelevant dependencies.
  • New functions for safer pointer arithmetic introduced.
 Read more in the official announcement blog.
Podcast Alert!!

Also check out our Go team's latest podcast on TerminalTalk. 

 Listen to the podcast now


Check out our official media centre channel for demos and tutorials: Link.  

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Chandni Dinani
Tue March 22, 2022 01:19 PM

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