Aspire, Microsoft’s open source, cloud native development platform, now supports JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, and Java as first-class citizens.
“With Aspire 13, JavaScript and TypeScript developers get to join the party — and I’m not talking about some half-baked afterthought integration,” wrote Microsoft Senior Software Engineer David Pine on Microsoft’s developer blog. “This is first-class, full-featured support for orchestrating your JavaScript apps in distributed systems.”
The tool was previously called .Net Aspire, but .Net has been dropped since Aspire is a polyglot.
The code-first orchestration platform is used to build, debug, and deploy distributed applications, such as cloud native apps or microservices.
Aspire provides a set of curated components and tooling, including a developer dashboard. Its goal is to simplify starting, building, and running cloud native applications.
Pine explains how to run JavaScript code in three different scenarios, including Node and Vite.
Rust 1.93.0 upgrades musl C library
Rust released version 1.93.0 this week. The big news here is that it upgrades the version of the musl C library used when building certain Linux apps.
This ”should make portable Linux binaries that do networking more reliable, particularly in the face of large DNS records and recursive nameservers,” according to the Rust blog about version 1.93.0.
That translates into apps that will be more stable when running in Kubernetes, Docker, or complex cloud environments where DNS records are large and complex.
If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, you can update to 1.93.0 with:
$ rustup update stable
A hackathon for useful applications
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