Developer tidbits for the weekend – smaller news of the week

In our delicious tidbit overview, we serve everything that didn't make it into the news, but that we still find exciting:

• React Native Windows 0.82 completely removes the old Paper architecture and forces all apps onto the new Fabric architecture as a unified base. At the same time, the update enables native XAML controls to be integrated directly into React Native components for the first time, significantly improving functionality, accessibility, and stability.
• PDL (Perl Data Language), an extension for Perl that enables efficient numerical computation with multidimensional arrays, has been completely reimplemented in Rust. The new version is intended to significantly improve performance and architecture and integrate seamlessly into a modern, JIT-capable (Just in Time) Perl runtime without C/XS dependencies.
• JSIR, a new high-level intermediate language for JavaScript in the LLVM ecosystem, introduces an IR (Intermediate Representation, i.e., an intermediate form of code for analysis and optimization) for the first time that fully preserves AST information and can apparently be losslessly converted back into source code. Also new are integrated control flow and data flow analyses based on MLIR.
• Microsoft announces that ASP.NET Core 2.3 will reach its end of support on April 7, 2027 and will no longer receive security updates, bug fixes, or support thereafter. Developers should therefore migrate to a current .NET version, as the old version will continue to run but poses increasing security risks.

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• The situation with AI in web development: The State of Web Dev AI survey is open. Interested web developers can participate until May 10 – regardless of their experience level or whether they use AI.
• The Microsoft Agent Framework has reached version 1.0 for .NET and Python. The open-source project for agentic AI applications allows, among other things, multi-agent orchestration and supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP). In the new, production-ready release, Microsoft promises stable APIs and long-term support.

• Pretty PHP Info replaces the standard function for displaying PHP configuration and offers a clean API as well as a searchable interface. Values have a unique hash and can be copied with one click.
• From the community Rust for CPython there is an update on the project's status: "We can now successfully compile CPython with Rust in our fork's CI on all tested platforms." Discussions are also underway with the Rust team about designing a Rust API for CPython. The project is then scheduled to be submitted as an official proposal for Python (Python Enhancement Proposal, PEP) in July.
• OpenJDK has issued a preliminary regulation on the use of AI tools for contributors, which largely prohibits AI-generated code. However, AI is permitted in peripheral areas such as reviews or spell checking. These guidelines are only provisional, as the main sponsor Oracle is working on comprehensive regulations.

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