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Software Development News 17 July 2025 - 24 July 2025

Python’s Game-Changer, AI’s Big Letdown & Ada’s Surprise Comeback – Programming News Roundup (July 23-24, 2025)

Python’s Game-Changer, AI’s Big Letdown & Ada’s Surprise Comeback – Programming News Roundup (July 23-24, 2025)

Python 3.14 RC1 introduces an opt-in no-GIL build and an experimental JIT compiler, plus a smarter Windows installer, with single-thread performance in free-threaded mode about 5–10% slower. Java JDK 25 enters Rampdown Phase Two with no new JEPs ahead of its September release. Spring Framework 7.0 reaches its 7th milestone, aligning with JDK 21+ and Jakarta EE 10. .NET 10 Preview 6 debuts with runtime JIT optimizations and JSON serialization improvements, but no new C# or F# features in this preview. TypeScript 5.9 enters beta, and TypeScript 7.0 will introduce a Go-written native compiler for 10x performance, with the first
AWS Kiro AI: Amazon’s Bold New Agentic IDE Turning ‘Vibe Coding’ into Viable Software

AWS Kiro AI: Amazon’s Bold New Agentic IDE Turning ‘Vibe Coding’ into Viable Software

AWS unveiled Kiro AI in mid-July 2025 as a specification-driven agentic IDE, available in a free public preview on kiro.dev, and powered by Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4 (with Claude 3.7 as a fallback) while built on a VS Code (Code-OSS) core. Kiro converts plain English prompts into full project specs—requirements.md, design.md, and tasks.md—before writing code, and keeps these specs in sync with the evolving codebase. The platform uses autonomous coding agents that coordinate across multiple files to implement requirements and update documentation, with Agent Hooks that trigger tests and maintenance tasks on file saves. Kiro includes an Agentic Chat panel
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