When is a web browser not standards-based? When it's made by Apple. Is it right for a browser maker to decide which standards to implement? Apple is firmly of the opinion that it can pick and choose.

The co-founder of Redis, Salvatore Sanfilippo, aka antirez, has announced he's stepping down from his role as a maintainer of the open source project that provides a widely used  in-memory key–value database.

Firefox 78 includes a new RegExp evaluator, bringing it up to date with the requirements of ECMAScript 2018, and enhanced support for WebAssembly.

Visual Studio Code has a new extension to improve Python support. Pylance adds fast, static type checking, autocomplete, and live type information about symbols among other features to the existing Python extension in VSCode. 

This week the Udacity School of Cloud Computing is opening its classrooms for a third nanodegree. The new addition, which prepares you for the role of Cloud Architect, is at advanced level. Udacity's two existing cloud-related nanodegree programs restart on the same date.

After Perl 6's renaming to Raku, acknowledging that it really is another language, Perl can now use number 7 without fear. It already has claimed the newly freed territory with the announcement that Perl 5.32 with more modern and sensible defaults is to be Perl 7.

Festo builds some amazing things and it has just released information on its new Bionic Swift, which has to be seen to be believed.

Our weekly digest lists the week's news, new titles added to our Book Watch Archive and our weekly book review. This week's featured articles are an extract from Ian Elliot's JavaScript Graphics book and another chapter of Deep C# by Mike James.

JetBrains is hosting a Java Technology Day on Friday July 10th with ten hour-long sessions from industry leaders. Register now to get instructions to join this virtual event which will be using GoToWebinar as its streaming platform.

There's a new release of the scripting language Lua, five years after the previous update. Version 5.4 brings improved garbage collection, support for to-be-closed variables and a new implementation of math.random.

Amazon CodeGuru is a developer tool powered by machine learning that can reveal the most expensive lines of code in your application and provides recommendations for improving code quality. Amazon has announced its general availability to all AWS customers. 

Oracle has released an open source version of their Coherence in-memory data grid product. Coherence is a Java-based distributed cache and in-memory data grid designed to offer high availability, high scalability and low latency.

A new article in ACM Inroads describes all that is wrong with secondary school level CS education. Many of us outsiders probably knew this all along.

An analysis of almost ninety thousand App Inventor Projects reveals that while some reach over 60,000 blocks most are comparatively modest. Compared to Scratch projects, those based on App Inventor lack loops and conditionals and are predominantly event driven.

The results of the Eclipse Foundation's 2020 Jakarta EE Developer Survey shows significantly increased growth in the use of Jakarta EE 8 and interest in cloud-native Java overall.

GutHub has released Super Linter, with the intention of making it easier to prevent broken code getting into your master branches.

A  new microcredential program at postgraduate level will run for the first time in July on the FutureLearn platform. Created in collaboration with Amazon’s AWS Academy, it prepares students to sit the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification – the price of which is included in the cost of the course.

Apache Hudi has been adopted as a top-level project. The open source data lake technology for stream processing on top of Apache Hadoop is already being used at organizations including Alibaba, Tencent, and Uber, and is supported as part of Amazon EMR by Amazon Web Services.