Updates and features announced in 2021: GitHub: - GitHub released Enterprise Server 3.0 with code scanning to detect vulnerabilities and secret scanning to detect credentials before production.
- GitHub added new features to enable developers to upload videos to comments and gists.
- GitHub removed a proof-of-concept exploit for critical ProxyLogon bugs in Microsoft Exchange that affected around 100,000 servers.
- In April, GitHub started supporting one-time payments and custom sponsorship amounts.
- GitHub introduced new Light Default, Dark Default, and Dark Dimmed themes to its classic VS Code themes.
- GitHub launched The ReadME podcast on Spotify.
- GitHub’s Codespaces was made available to Team and Enterprise Cloud plans in August.
- In October, GitHub announced the general availability of GitHub Enterprise 3.2.
- GitHub announced code review limits and a new feature to its mobile app to triage notifications.
- GitHub announced it will enforce two-factor authentication.
GitLab: - In February, GitLab 13.9 was released with over 60 new features, including Security Alert Dashboard.
- GitLab 14.0 included Epic Boards to see and update all epics in a central location.
Google: - Chrome stable versions from 88 to 96 were released, and the beta of 97 was released recently.
- Chrome announced its plan to launch new versions every four weeks instead of six.
- Flutter 2 is an open-source cross-platform UI toolkit.
- At its developer conference, Google introduced App Check to Firebase, released Flutter 2.2 and a beta of Arctic Fox, and new password tools and updates.
- In September, Google released Flutter 2.5 and Dart 2.14.
- Google introduced Dev Library, an open-source platform for developers.
- Android announced a series of updates and new features to Android Enterprise for users to balance their needs and achieve mobility goals.
- At Android Dev Summit, Google announced the developer preview of Android 12L, updates to Jetpack Compose, and a new Google Play Certification.
- Google launched the first beta of 12L in December.
Firefox: - Versions 85 to 95 of the Mozilla Firefox browser were released this year.
- New features introduced this year include upgrades to HTTPS, support for the AVIF image format, and RLBox, a new technology to protect against security vulnerabilities in third-party libraries.
Java: - Microsoft launched OpenJDK Build, an open-source LTS OpenJDK distribution that can be deployed anywhere.
- Microsoft’s plan for Java in Visual Studio Code included improving code completion and navigation and better support for build tools.
- Oracle announced Java Management Service to accelerate Java adoption in cloud settings.
- In September, the long-term support release Java 17 was released.
JavaScript: - jQuery 3.6.0 was released with bug fixes, improvements, and new features.
- Facebook launched Relay Hooks, a set of improved React Hooks API for Relay.
- Ember 4.0 was released with support for evergreen and non-evergreen browsers, including Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari on desktop and mobile.
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Updates & features announced in 2021 cont.: TypeScript: - In January, the beta of TypeScript 4.2 was released, and in November, version 4.5 was released.
- TypeScript 4.3 was released with the ability to specify types for reading and writing to properties and import statement completions.
Angular: - Angular v11.2 included native support for TailwindCSS, 12 included View Engine, and version 13 included support for View Engine.
- Angular launched Angular DevTools, a ChromeDevTools extension, to inspect the structure of applications and profile their performance.
Vue: - Vue released Vite 2.0, a new form of build tool for front-end development.
- Vue.js 3.1.0 was released with several bug fixes.
- Vue 3.2 was released with a new defineCustomElement method to create native custom elements with Vue component APIs.
Python: - Google became the Python Software Foundation’s first Visionary Sponsor.
- Arrow v1.0, a library for creating and editing dates, times, and timestamps, was released with support for Python 3.9.
- PyTorch was released with AMD ROCm support, code optimization, and more.
- Microsoft increased its contributions to the Python Software Foundation to focus on improving PyPi and the packaging ecosystem.
- Python web framework 2.0 was released by The Pallets project.
- Replit launched replit.web, a framework helping developers build hosted apps with data persistence.
- Python released version 3.10, making it easy to debug code.
Kotlin: - Kotlin 1.5.0 was released with sealed interfaces and inline classes.
- Kotlin v1.5.30 offered language updates and improvements in platform support and tooling.
- In November, Kotlin 1.6.0 was released with new language features, optimizations, and improvements.
- Jet Brains announced the release of kotlinx.coroutines 1.6.0.
Rust: - The Rust Foundation, an independent foundation dedicated to the Rust programming language, was launched.
- Rust 1.51 was released with stabilization of the const generics features and more.
- In May, Facebook joined the Rust Foundation to provide support for the highest member tier.
- In July, Rust 1.54.0 was released with support for invoking function-like macros inside attributes, stabilization of several intrinsics for the wasm32 platform, and more.
Other platforms: - OpenAI introduced two neural networks to convert text into images.
- Adobe released Adobe Experience Manager that simplified combining AEM Content Management System with AEM Digital Asset Management.
- Cloudflare launched its Browser Isolation, support for malware detection and prevention, Magic WAN, and Magic Firewall at its Cloudflare Security week.
- In March, WordPress announced it will drop support for Internet Explorer 11.
- JetBrains unveiled Jetpack Compose for the web to build reactive user interfaces using Google’s toolkit.
- MongoDB launched version 5.0 at its MongoDB.Live conference.
- Twilio launched Developer Toolkit, offering tools to customize and extend the Twilio Segment platform.
- Xcode 13 was released with SDKs for iOS 15, iPadOS 15, tvOS 15, watchOS 8, and macOS Big Sur 11.3.
- Apple released Swift programming language version 5.5.
- PostgreSQL 14 was released with improved high performance, advanced connection concurrency, complex data types, and much more.
- Adobe introduced Adobe Developer App Builder, a tool to extend and integrate Adobe’s enterprise applications.
- Microsoft announced that it will re-enable Hot Reload in the general availability build of the .NET SDK.
- In October, Vercel launched Next.js 12 during its Next.js annual conference.
- Flutter v2.8 was released with the aim to refine the web and mobile development experience.
- Facebook announced the release of Create React APP version 5.0.0.
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Tools launched in 2021: - Amplify Flutter was launched by Amazon for building cross-platform apps.
- Google released SQL Insights for understanding and solving database performance issues on Cloud SQL.
- Htmx 1.2.0, a tool to build user interfaces with hypertext, was made available.
- Electron 12.0.0, a framework for creating cross-platform apps with web technologies, was launched.
- WebOS released WebOS Open Source Edition 2.10.
- Cloudflare released Cloudflare Pages for deploying and hosting static websites.
- Hackerearth automates interview summaries and comes with a real-time code editor to help prep for interviews.
- Firefox is a GUI tool for Firebase Cloud Firestone.
- NaturalyCode explains what code is doing in English.
- PWA Builder enables developers to quickly create and package Progressive Web Apps.
- SolidJS offers developers a reactive and precompiled JSX without using a Virtual DOM.
- FrontWork component marketplace sells prebuilt frontend components.
- Flowbite is an open-source library for web components.
- Refine is a React-based framework for building data-intensive applications like admin panels, B2B applications, and dashboards.
- Sizze Figma plugin exports design in Figma to React Native code, and Figkit is a wireframe library to design UI.
- Designstripe is a customizable illustration creator for website developers.
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2021 Surveys and Reports: - DevSkiller’s 2021 IT skills report:
- 75% of companies wanted to hire a JavaScript developer.
- Windows 10 was the most popular OS among developers (54%).
- React, MySQL, Spring, ASP .NET, HTML, and Laravel were the popular technologies used.
- Snyk’s JVM Ecosystem Report 2021:
- 44% of respondents use the free AdoptOpenJDK distribution in production, followed by OpenJDK build (28%) and commercial Oracle JDK (23%).
- The survey found developers moving away from Java 8 to Java 11.
- Java (90%) was the most used JVM language, followed by Kotlin (18%).
- JetBrains State of Developer Ecosystem 2021
- The top five languages developers planned to adopt or migrate were Go, Kotlin, TypeScript, Python, and Rust.
- The top five languages developers were learning in 2021 were JavaScript, Python, TypeScript, Java, and Go.
- The five fastest-growing languages are Python, TypeScript, Kotlin, SQL, and Go.
- Kotlin Multiplatform Survey
- The majority of respondents (57%) were mobile developers using Kotlin Multiplatform to share data between Android and iOS.
- The percentage of developers with more than five years of experience using KMM decreased by 10% to 51%.
- 81% of respondents used KMM to maintain consistency across iOS and Android apps.
- GitHub’s 2021 State of the Octoverse
- JavaScript and Python continued to be the top programming languages for the third consecutive year.
- Only 10.7% of developers wanted to return to the office after the end of the pandemic.
- Developers saw a 50% productivity boost with easy-to-source documentation in both open-source and enterprise projects.
- The State of CSS 2021
- The usage of CSS Grid increased remarkably from 55% in 2019 to 83% in 2021.
- Prettier is the most extensively used tool, followed by Autoprefixer, Stylelint, and PurgeCSS.
- Browser compatibility is the major pain point with CSS, and Container Queries is the most missed feature.
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Important announcements made in 2021: - GitLab phased out its Starter and Bronze subscription plans and transitioned to a new three-tier payment model.
- Google and Microsoft partnered with other tech giants to launch the Open Web Docs to finance and contribute to Mozilla Developer Network Web Docs initiative.
- Microsoft announced that Excel is Turing-complete.
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- Panic Inc. stopped selling its Code Editor app.
- Microsoft announced it will shut down the IE 11 desktop application for Windows 10 versions in June 2022 to focus on its Edge browser.
- Google, Apple, Mozilla, and Microsoft launched the WebExtensions Community Group to build a common architecture for browser plug-ins.
- GitHub’s supply chain security features were made available to Go modules.
- Google announced that it will retire the Google Platform Library based on JavaScript from March 31, 2023.
- Google announced that it is decreasing the service fee for all subscriptions on Google Play from 30% to 15%.
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Investment rounds in 2021: - Stripe raised a $600M Series H round with a valuation of $95B.
- Tel Aviv-based startup Incredibuild, a software development acceleration platform, raised $140M from Insight Partners.
- Wasabi raised a $112M Series C round led by Fidelity Management & Research Company.
- Graph representation platform for interrelated systems Neo4j raised $325M in a funding round led by Eurazeo.
- BrowserStack raised a $200M Series B round.
- Figma raised a $200M Series E round led by Durable Capital Partners.
- Vercel raised a $102M Series C round.
- Apollo GraphQL raised $130M in Series D funding in a round led by Insight Partners.
- API platform Postman raised a $225M Series D round.
- Cybersecurity platform Corelight raised a $75 Series D round to fuel its acceleration to global market presence.
- Canva raised $200M at a valuation of $40B.
- Lightricks, developer of Facetune, raised a $130M Series D at a valuation of $1.8B.
- Netify raised a $105M Series D round led by Bessemer Venture Partners.
- Next.js maker Vercel raised a $150M Series D round at a valuation of $2.5B.
- The company behind Cockroach DB, Cockroach Labs, raised a $278M Series F round at a $5B valuation.
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- AWS purchased Wickr for an undisclosed amount.
- The Department of Defense canceled the $10B JEDI cloud contract it awarded to Microsoft Azure over AWS.
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