Rust reached the milestone of Version 1.0 becoming generally available on May 15, 2015. Version 1.87 has just been released on the 10th anniversary with a celebratory event in Utrecht during Rust week, its annual developer conference.

Get up to speed on stuff that affects you as a developer with our weekly digest which summarizes the week's news together with links to the latest book review and our additions to Book Watch. This week's top feature is our second extract from Harry Fairhead's new book on using the Gpoi5 library with the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5, this time for controlling pulse width modulation.

We continue the lowdown of Java conferences that took place in the first half of 2025. Last week we explored three Voxxed sessions, this week it's Devoxx Greece, Devoxx UK and JavaOne.

NVIDIA adds native support to CUDA for Python, making it more accessible to developers at large.

Apollo GraphQL has announced the Apollo MCP Server, 

designed to connect GraphQL APIs to AI models such as Claude and ChatGPT using the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

Large Language Models are fascinating and are probably practically important, but if you know how they work what they manage to achieve is remarkable. Is it possible that a language model can both see and hear without further training?

CodeRabbit, an AI-powered code review tool designed to automate the code review process is now integrated in VS Code, the first tool to deliver full-context reviews both in the IDE and in Git, helping teams catch bugs earlier and ship faster.

Computer science and the theory of computation has much to say about philosophy and mathematics. In particular, what is computable is closely connected to what is provable and hence what is knowable in mathematics.

This month's TIOBE Index shows another jump up in Python's popularity, resulting in the widest ever gap between it and all other languages. Perl, R and Ada are also notable in terms of moving up the rankings.

Java is an intimidating language for the complete beginner, but now there is hope of simplification in the recently proposed JEP512. And the fact that it is 512 must count for something - right?

On May 12, 1941 Konrad Zuse completed his Z3 computer, the first program-controlled electromechanical digital computer. It followed in the footsteps of the Z1 - the world’s first binary digital computer which Zuse had developed in 1938 and its successor the Z2 the first relay-driven computer. 

LegoGPT is an AI model that creates physically stable Lego structures from text prompts. Not only does it design Lego models that match text-supplied descriptions, it also ensures they can be built brick by brick in the real world, either by hand or with robotic assistance.

The first of week's articles looks at one of the newest problems to crop up with Dmitry Reshetchenko exploring "Why Most AI Projects Fail Before They Start". The second looks back at the Altair 8080 which this week celebrated is 50th Anniversary. Plus the week's books and news.

Google has included an event dedicated to Android to take place one week before Google I/O 2025. It is a special edition of The Android Show on May 13th in which Sameer Samat, President of Android Ecosystem, and the Android team will preview the innovations and new experiences you can expect from Android16.

The last few months we've seen an increase in Java conferences. We'll try to not just enumerate, them but also mention the key talks in each of them.

JetBrains is extending its non-commercial licensing model to CLion, its IDE for C and C++ development on Linux, OS X and Windows. This means that if you are using CLion for hobby development, open-source project development, or for learning the language  you can now do so for free.

Now you can make MCP clients and servers with C# thanks to the release of the official SDK. Do note however that it is currently in preview and that breaking changes can be introduced without prior notice.

It could just be that Apple has made a big mistake and the longed for, or dreaded, dissolution of the App Store is upon us at last. Of course, Apple is appealing, but things don't look good for its position.