February 16, 2026
State of Databases 2026
Databricks bought Neon for $1B, AI agents created 80% of its databases, PostgreSQL hit 55.6%, and Valkey beat Redis 3x.
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February 10, 2026
State of Scala 2026
Scala 3.8 requires JDK 17, Akka reverts to Apache 2.0, 43% struggle to hire developers, Metals MCP lets AI compile code.
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February 9, 2026
State of Ruby 2026
Ruby 4.0 shipped ZJIT and Ruby::Box, Rails 8 ditched Redis for Solid Trifecta, and a RubyGems crisis forced Matz to act.
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February 5, 2026
State of Flutter 2026
Shader jank gone on mobile, web hot reload matched native parity, and LLMs started generating Flutter UIs via GenUI SDK.
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February 2, 2026
State of WebAssembly 2026
Wasm 3.0 brought GC and Memory64, hit 5.5% Chrome page loads, and edge computing broke out as Akamai acquired Fermyon.
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January 29, 2026
State of C++ 2026
C++26 shipped reflection and contracts, WG21 rejected borrow checking for Profiles, and Herb Sutter stepped down.
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January 17, 2026
State of C 2026
Half a century of C: GCC 15 made C23 default as DRM becomes the first kernel subsystem to mandate Rust over C by 2027.
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January 15, 2026
State of TypeScript 2026
Python trains, TypeScript ships: TS became #1 on GitHub, compiler ported to Go for 10x builds, and Node ran TS natively.
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January 13, 2026
State of Kotlin 2026
K2 became default with 40% faster builds, Compose iOS reached stable, and JetBrains killed Fleet to pivot to agentic AI.
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January 12, 2026
State of Swift 2026
Swift 6.2 shipped Approachable Concurrency with WebAssembly, and Android SDK preview officially brought Swift to Android.
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January 10, 2026
State of PHP 2026
PHP turned 30, shipped the pipe operator in 8.5, Laravel 12 shipped zero breaking changes, Symfony released 7.4 and 8.0.
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January 9, 2026
State of .NET 2026
.NET 10 LTS shipped with C# 14 as Agent Framework unified Semantic Kernel and AutoGen, and C# won TIOBE Language Year.
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January 8, 2026
State of Java 2026
JDK 25 LTS shipped as Java turned 30, Spring Boot 4.0 arrived on Framework 7, and Java became AI infrastructure via MCP.
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January 6, 2026
State of Go 2026
Go 1.24 Swiss Tables made maps 60% faster, Go 1.25 Green Tea GC cut overhead 40%, and the official MCP SDK v1.0 shipped.
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January 4, 2026
State of Rust 2026
Linux declared Rust permanent, Microsoft and Google went all-in, but governance conflicts tested community resilience.
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January 3, 2026
State of Agentic AI 2026
The pivot from tool calling to computer use defined the year as OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic shipped agents to millions.
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January 2, 2026
State of DevOps 2026
IBM bought HashiCorp for $6.4B, HPE bought Juniper for $14B, and IngressNightmare exposed 43% of Kubernetes environments.
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January 2, 2026
State of JavaScript 2026
TypeScript 7 native port promised 10x speedup, Vite+ unified Rust tooling, and React2Shell exposed 39% of cloud systems.
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January 2, 2026
State of OpenAI 2026
GPT-5, 5.1, and 5.2 shipped as Code Red answered Gemini 3. OpenAI hit $500B, 800M users, and 8+ product liability suits.
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January 1, 2026
State of Python 2026
Python 3.14 hit 3.1x speedups with GIL-optional builds, uv overtook pip in CI at 66%, and PSF rejected $1.5M NSF grant.
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