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The web development world is vast, and it’s easy to feel lost in the constant stream of new technologies emerging every day. Most of these new technologies are built using JavaScript or TypeScript. However, in this article, author will introduce you to web development using native Swift, directly inside your browser. By Mikhail Isaev.

For Swift to work natively on the web page it needs to be compiled to WebAssembly byte-code first and then JavaScript could load that code onto the page. The whole process of compilation is a bit tricky since we need to use the special toolchain and build helper files, that’s why there are helper CLI-tools available: Carton and Webber.

Carton is made by the SwiftWasm community and can be used for Tokamak projects, which is a framework that gives you the ability to write websites using SwiftUI. Webber is made for SwifWeb projects. SwifWeb is different in that it wraps the entire HTML and CSS standards, as well as all of the web APIs.

The article then walks you through every step of building web application. The source code is also provided. Nice one!

Akka-http is the foundation of many Scala and Java web services that have been successfully running on production for quite some time now. It’s powered by Akka, a concurrency toolkit that had a big impact on Scala’s hype taking off. By Paweł Kiersznowski.

Tha author then diffuse some misconceptins:

• Akka-http is dead due to license changes
• The routing is unreadable
• The internals are not purely functional, therefore it’s unsafe
• It’s tied to scala.concurrent.Future
• It’s too complicated to use
• It’s better off wrapped by another HTTP library

Over the years, akka-http has been frequently the center of heated discussions, which created a lot of interesting viewpoints in the Scala community. Some of them usually weren’t confronted with what akka-http is actually capable of, and they are the main focus of this article. I hope I provided some balance with my thoughts on this library. Nice one!

Businesses that previously dabbled in AI are now rushing to adopt and deploy the latest applications. Generative AI - the ability of algorithms to create new text, images, sounds, animations, 3D models and even computer code — is moving at warp speed, transforming the way people work and play. By Cliff Edwards.

Early adopters across industries — from drug discovery, financial services, retail and telecommunications to energy, higher education and the public sector — are combining accelerated computing with generative AI to transform business operations, service offerings and productivity. Article then delves into:

• Generative AI for drug discovery
• Generative AI for financial services
• Generative AI for retail
• Generative AI for telecommunications
• Generative AI for energy
• Generative AI for higher education and research
• Generative AI for the public sector
• Generative AI – A key ingredient for business success

Across every field, organizations are transforming employee productivity, improving products and delivering higher-quality services with generative AI. Interesting read!

Although Node.js remains the most-used server-side JavaScript runtime by a huge margin, alternative runtimes like Deno and Bun have garnered attention as they attempt to improve upon the Node.js concept. By Jeremy Holcombe.

Deno, the more popular of the two newer runtimes, addresses some security issues inherent in Node.js and provides more comprehensive support for technologies like TypeScript and WebAssembly. Further in the article you will learn:

• What Is Deno?
• What Does Deno Do?
• Deno vs Node
• Deno vs Bun
• Getting Started with Deno

Ryan Dahl developed Node.js for this purpose and, later, created Deno to address some of the issues he encountered with the original Node.js design. Some notable flaws include its reliance on a centralized package manager like npm, the lack of a standard library, and lax-by-default security settings. Deno aims to follow the same APIs as browsers do, which means that code written for browsers is easily translatable to the runtime. Nice one!

Use Google Bard for making your everyday tasks easier and more organized. ChatGPT and Google Bard are the best AI tools that are devised and designed to help humans with their curiosities and enhance the output of their work.

Before we move to how you can use Google AI technology in 10 ways, one very interesting thing about the AI tool is that it is fed on multiple layers of datasets and can derive information in real time from the internet. Thus, you can aim for updated and upgraded answers from the Bard AI chatbot use.

The use cases discussed:

• Bard makes complex answers simple
• Multiple languages: Translating with Bard
• Bard is a creative outlet
• Summarize articles with Bard
• The SEO Doctor: SEO analysis
• Single prompt, multiple drafts
• Drafting and managing emails
• Bard helps with content ideas
• Assistant for everything else

Bard is laced with plugins that help perform needful tasks like buying groceries online, reservations, or planning your monthly bills, groceries, trips, and expenses. However, these are still in beta mode in the USA and are not available throughout the world as of now. Good read!

Golang was first released by Google in 2009 and, and since then, has gained widespread acceptance among developers due to its simplicity, concurrency, and performance. However, many years later, Go was suddenly forgotten as many users chose other languages like Java or Python for their projects. By Vy Le.

In this article, we provide you with all the necessary information about Golang through exciting facts and a detailed comparison between Go and other popular programming languages to help you make the right choice for your future project.

The article then reads about:

• Facts of Go programming language
• Golang performance: Why Golang?
• Go vs. Rust
• Go vs. Python
• Go vs. Java
• Go vs. C++

It’s no coincidence that we have so many programming languages to choose from. If taken as a whole, there is no win over language because each of them has distinct strengths and weaknesses, and the development team’s needs vary. Interesting read!

Phantom types is an interesting feature of the Scala programming language. While extremely useful for library authors, they have a reputation of being too confusing, complex and unnecessary, especially for programmers coming from different backgrounds - weakly typed languages. By Jaroslav Regec.

The idea behind phantom types is quite simple and various use cases turn out to be very powerful. So in the blog post we’ll take a closer look at what phantom types are and how they can be useful even for day to day programming on client projects. Then we’ll deep dive into more advanced use cases that are to be found in ZIO SQL library and at the end we’ll peek into how they power up ZIO’s environment type.

Tha article then mentions:

• Phantom types 101
• Phantom types and correct SQL queries
• Reader monad
• Environment type R

Phantom type is a type without a value. Its purpose is to bring more type safety to your scala code. Whether it is a library’s DSL or any API at your client project, phantom types can bring a lot of power and correctness to the codebase. Good read!

Python has taken over the development space and Python is definitely for AI as well as many other application arenas. In fact, it’s everywhere. Ask any coder, and they’ll tell you that it’s easy to learn and it’s often the right tool for the job. By Intersog.

This means that beginners and seasoned veterans will have access to millions of lines of code that can be easily borrowed from the best programmers (in the world) and used by anyone. The article then describes what are some of the amazing things you can do with Python:

• AI and Machine Learning (ML) Python
• Python code for web development
• Scientific and numeric computing
• Function decorators for enhanced functionality
• Browser web application automation
• Python makes robotics possible

These six cool things made possible by this programming language is just a fraction of what you can do with it. Python’s latest release has new features in the asyncio module (which is no longer provisional with a surprisingly stable API), formatted string literals, and the addition of a file system path protocol. Good read!

Testing is essential to ensure that your software application performs as expected. No doubt about it. But even if your application runs smoothly in a testing environment, unexpected incidents can occur in production, such as a crashed database or a lost connection to a third-party service. By Donald Le and Tomas Fernandez.

In this article, we’ll explore how to implement chaos testing using k6 for two backend services, to help you ensure the resilience of your application. Also in the article:

• What is chaos testing?
• Why implement chaos testing?
• What is k6?
• How the xk6-disruptor works
• Pod disruptor
• Service disruptor
• An example of chaos testing

k6 is a load-testing tool for checking that your application can withstand the expected workload. Besides a load testing tool, k6 provides experimental features to apply chaos testing using xk6-disruptor extension. To do that, you write chaos testing scenarios in JavaScript. Good read!

Elixir builds on top of Erlang and shares the same abstractions for building distributed, fault-tolerant applications. Since then, it’s been gaining popularity because it’s highly scalable, reliable, and great for Microservices and Cloud Computing. By Alex Pedchenko.

The article then explains:

• What is Elixir programming language?
• Pros and cons of Elixir programming
• What is the advantage of Elixir?
• Who uses Elixir?
• Elixir vs competitors performance: Golang, Python, Java
• Examples: TOP repositories on GitHub

Elixir lang is a functional programming language that is easy to read and easy to use. It utilizes simple expressions to transform data in a safe and efficient manner. This is yet another reason that so many developers are currently choosing Elixir and why many programmers are learning the language. Good read!