React.dev is a new website launched by the React team that serves as the new home for React and its documentation. The site teaches modern React with function components and Hooks, and includes diagrams, illustrations, challenges, and over 600 new interactive examples. 

As rumored last year, the Qt Company has announced that now that Qt 6 is released, Qt 5.15 LTS will move to a 'commercial-only' phase. 

Unhandled exceptions are a bit of a misnomer. In .NET, every exception is handled. By the time you access the specifics of an error in your Try-Catch block, the Framework has already analyzed the problem, built a structure to contain its details, examined the stack trace, and used reflection to pinpoint the location of the error, among other mundane tasks. In short, when errors occur, .NET serves them up to your code in a neatly packaged, highly examinable data block.

ReSharper 2017.2 understands .NET Core 2.0and C# 7.1, gets better at C# 7.0,provides more code inspections and context actions including new IEnumerableinspections, delivers many powerful navigation and search improvements, brings new C# typing assists, levels up support for TypeScript, JavaScript, JSON and Angular. 

This release contains the following improvements and enhancements:

• This release now installs Java™ Development Kit 8, Update 181 (JDK version 8u181). 

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.7.6:

• Visual C++ Redistributable 2017 does not report the install state in a specific registry location.
• In 15.7 users may see extensions load without all of their assets and cause VS to crash. This has been addressed for 15.7.6.
• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7.5 crashes when opening a solution. 

Ruby is, more or less, a dying language. It will probably take back off when Ruby 3.0 is released but right now, its popularity is on the decline.  

1. Introduction
2. Variables and Values
3. Expressions and Functions
4. Control Structures
5. Arrays and Lists
6. Other Collection Types
7. Classes and Objects
8. Pattern Matching
9. Closures
10. Conclusion 

Moq is a mocking library for .NET Unit Testing (cue the TDD folks reminding us mocks are unnecessary), and it is by far the most widely used mocking library in .NET (475 million downloads vs 87 million for the next largest, NSubstitute). Yesterday, its author released version 4.20.1; which added nagware and a backdoor to Moq, in a bid to drive up paid usages of Moq through ‘Sponsorships’. 

Oracle is seeking as much as $9.3 billion in damages in a long-running copyright lawsuit against Google over its use of Java in Android, court filings show. Oracle sued Google six years ago, claiming the search giant needs a license to use parts of the Java platform in Google's market-leading mobile OS.