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🛠️ You Tool
🚜 RustRover, A JetBrains offering to Rust Devs
JetBrains has announced a Standalone IDE for Rust, The Rust Rover. However, it is in the Early Access Program (EAP). So try it out and give them feedback.
Before you jump to it, let me clear this for you. It is Free during Public Preview only and will be a Commercial Product afterward similar to other JetBrains products.
Source: Introducing RustRover
💪 Work with Framework
🏎️ The 1st Release Candidate for .NET 8 is Out
IC: Microsft
Microsft has recently released the first Release Candidate (RC) for .NET 8. It will be the first of two release candidates.
This release includes a new AOT mode for both Android and WASM, System.Text.Json improvements, and Azure Managed Identity support for containers. Now is a great time to pick up and test .NET 8 if you haven’t yet.
Source: Announcing .NET 8 RC1
😈 Server Maniac
😳 It’s Real that Surreal DB Released 1.0.0
SurrealDB is a new Cloud Native database. The team has released its version 1.0.0 on GitHub yesterday. They will officially announce them in their official event.
SurrealDb is a NoSQL database at the core but can be used as a traditional database as well. A few notable features of SurrealDB among many others are:
- Single Node: Can be run as memory only or on-disk storage
- Can run on Distributed TiKV
- Multitenancy Support
- And much more
Source: SurrealDB
💁♂️ On the other hand
😡 Unity Game Devs Furious after “Unity Runtime Fee”
The game development using Unity as a game engine will be costlier after the latest announcements from the company behind the Unity Game Engine.
Starting in January 2024, the company will charge what it’s calling a “Unity Runtime Fee”. This “Fee” will be based on the number of users installing games based on the stated engine. The company provided a list of various fees based on different counts.
However, the company also announced that they will add cloud-based asset storage, Unity DevOps tools, and AI at runtime at no extra cost to Unity subscription plans this Novembe r.