Sebastien Julliand
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VS Code Will Be The Heart Of The Modern IBM i Platform
June 23, 2025 Sebastien Julliand
For application programmers, the workspace is not a place to sit with a screen, a keyboard, a chair, but rather is an integrated development environment within which code can be created, shared, compiled, and managed either inside the tool itself or through plug-in extensions that link it to other tools. IDEs have been around for decades and are not anything new. What is new is how suddenly popular one particular IDE – VS Code – has become.
For the past several years, nearly three quarters of the programmers in the world polled for the Stack Overflow Developer Survey say that …
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The All-Knowing, Benevolent Dictator Of Code
November 6, 2019 Sebastien Julliand
Not every software project can have an all-knowing benevolent dictator looking through every line of code, and even all projects could have such a person to oversee the quality of the code, there is no reason to not automate as much of this very important code review job as is possible.
Luckily for IBM i shops, there is such a tool to help with code review, and in that sense, we suppose, you can install rather than hire that all-knowing benevolent dictator of application code. It’s called, appropriately enough, CodeChecker, and it has been available from ARCAD Software for quite …
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