For the second time in six months, Perl has re-entered the Top 10 of the TIOBE index, causing people to ask why a language that seemed to have been sidelined for a long time is experiencing a resurgence. Here are some reasons for its enduring appeal. 

Wing Python IDE version 11.0.4 has been released. It adds debugger and code analysis support for Python 3.14, improves Python code analysis and code warnings, and makes a number of other minor improvements.

It's "Back To School" time and whether or not you are currently in education you may be feeling the urge to enrol in a course to deepen your knowledge, to gain certificates to validate your skills or even just for fun. So it's a good time to take up the current Coursera Plus offer of 30% discount on an annual subscription.

Neo4j has launched Infinigraph, a new distributed graph architecture that means Neo4j's graph database can run both operational and analytical graph workloads in a single system.  

The latest update to JetBrains ReSharper has been reworked so that code analysis runs in a separate 64-bit worker, meaning long analyses no longer stall Visual Studio's UI thread. The JetBrains team says the change cuts Visual Studio startup UI freezes by 61 percent. 

Microsoft has announced that DocumentDB, its fully-permissive, PostgreSQL-backed, open-source document database project, has joined the Linux Foundation. 

A joint team from Google DeepMind Robotics, Intrinsic, and University College London has published research showing an AI model that uses reinforcement learning and graph neural networks (GNNs) to control multiple robots in shared workspaces. Titled RoboBallet, the research used AI to avoid collisions between multiple robots moving in a shared space.

If you've not visited I Programmer before, this Weekly Digest gives you a taster. It has links to our wide ranging news with its mix of analysis and comment and the week's additions to Book Watch. This week's top featured articles is the first extract from the newly published Master the Raspberry Pi Pico in C: WiFi with LwIP, MbedTLS and FreeRTOS, looking at installing FreeRTOS on the Pico.

Microsoft has released the source code of Basic 1.1 for the 6502 microprocessor on GitHub. The page with the code says the assembly language source code represents one of the most historically significant pieces of software from the early personal computer era.

Two great PostgreSQL conferences, PGConf.dev and Posette, took place during May and June this year. We take a look at the key talks of each of them.

The release candidate of jQuery 4.0 has been released, with a slim build option that excludes the ajax and effects modules as well as excluding Deferreds and Callbacks.

Memobase is a user profile-based memory system designed to bring long-term user memory to your LLM applications.
What does that mean?

ChatGPT stands head and shoulders above all other AI Chatbots, but users engage for longest with Claude. These findings come from the "AI Big Bang Study" conducted by OneLittleWeb.

Despite realizing and ruling that Google was and is a monopoly in search and advertising, Judge Amit Mehta has decided that Google can keep control of one of the biggest tools in maintaining that monopoly, the Chrome browser. How do devs feel about this?

Oracle adds MCP support to two of its flagship tools, SQLcl and
SQL Developer for VS Code, in an attempt to simplify user interaction with the database.

Microsoft has added a new diagnostics toolset for .NET development in Visual Studio. The Copilot Diagnostics for .NET is integrated with GitHub Copilot and aims to cut out the repetitive, tedious work so you can focus on what really matters: solving problems and shipping features.