programming-languages

Rust 1.96.0, released May 28, resolves a decade-old ergonomics gap with Copy-implementing range types from RFC 3550, stabilizes assert_matches!, tightens WebAssembly linking, and patches medium and low Cargo vulnerabilities affecting third-party registry users.

Multikernel Technologies releases KernelScript, an Apache 2.0-licensed DSL that generates eBPF, userspace, and kernel module code from a single source file.

Modular ships Mojo v1.0.0b1 on May 7, 2026, deprecating the fn keyword, enabling default CPU bounds checking, and expanding GPU support to AMD MI250X and NVIDIA B300.

The May 2026 major release hardens the BEAM runtime's security posture with quantum-resistant cryptography defaults and disabled SSH shell access, while adding experimental native records to the language for the first time.

JetBrains unveiled an official Kotlin extension for VS Code in alpha, previewed Kotlin 2.4-RC feature stabilizations, and published research showing Kotlin development cycles are 15–20% shorter than Java.

Flutter 3.44 and Dart 3.12 ship at Google I/O 2026 with agentic hot reload, Flutter GenUI on the A2UI protocol, Swift Package Manager as the iOS/macOS default, and Hybrid Composition++ for Android.

Zig 0.16.0 released April 14 with a mandatory I/O interface that eliminates function coloring, a 30,000-line type resolution redesign, and millisecond incremental builds.

R hit #8 in the TIOBE Index — matching its all-time high — as Python and R emerge as the two survivors in a rapidly consolidating statistical language market, while Go fell to #16 and Zig crept toward the top 30.

Microsoft ships TypeScript 7.0 Beta featuring a native Go port of the compiler and language service, delivering often 10x faster builds, reduced memory use, and parallelized type-checking for large codebases.

Python's fifth 3.14 maintenance release, shipped May 10, restores the generational garbage collector from 3.13 after operators saw memory regressions up to 5x; the revert also reaches into Python 3.15.

Release manager Hugo van Kemenade postponed Python 3.15.0 beta 1 by two days to May 7, 2026, marking the feature freeze for one of the language's largest releases in years.

The fourth release candidate for Elixir 1.20 lands ahead of a planned May 2026 final, capping the largest type-system milestone in the language's history with whole-function inference, cross-clause analysis, and a roughly 10% compiler speedup.