On January 30th, 2021 with 109 comments
Visual Studio Magazine reports:
Microsoft, which calls its Excel spreadsheet a programming language, reports that an effort called LAMBDA to make it even more...
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On January 25th, 2021 with 72 comments
Camel Pilot writes: Pyston 2.1, a closed-source but faster and highly-compatible implementation of the Python programming language, significantly outperforms...
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On January 24th, 2021 with 32 comments
"A two-episode series which debuted on Chinese streaming platforms last week has been described as the first reality competition to focus on programmers,"...
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On January 23rd, 2021 with 48 comments
We have learned that Brad Cox, computer scientist known mostly for creating the Objective-C programming language with his business partner Tom Love, died on...
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On January 17th, 2021 with 118 comments
TechRepublic shares a remarkable calculation by the not-for-profit IT leadership group the Consortium for Information and Software Security:
CISQ's 2020...
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On January 10th, 2021 with 75 comments
Programming columnist Mike Melanson describes the announcement of this year's programming language of the year:
The TIOBE Index, the somewhat dubious ranking...
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On January 3rd, 2021 with 88 comments
"When you do computer programming, what sort of mental work are you doing?" asks science/tech journalist Clive Thompson:
For a long time, folks have...
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On January 3rd, 2021 with 286 comments
Long-time programmer/researcher/former MIT research fellow Jonathan Edwards writes a blog called "Alarming Development: Dispatches from the User Liberation...
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On December 23rd, 2020 with 51 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: With great fanfare last week, 44 attorneys general hit Google with two antitrust complaints, following a...
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On December 20th, 2020 with 92 comments
Application-security company Veracode "has released the 11th volume of its annual State of Software Security report, and its findings reveal that flawed...
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On December 19th, 2020 with 53 comments
i-programmer reports:
The Jakarta EE Working Group has announced that javax is now officially and finally renamed as jakarta with the release of the Jakarta EE...
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On December 17th, 2020 with 69 comments
Last week, some Goodreads users received a disappointing message: The popular book tracking website is disabling access to its API for users who haven't used...
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On December 12th, 2020 with 24 comments
An anonymous Slashdot reader writes:
For the past year, hackers have been breaking into MySQL databases, downloading tables, deleting the originals, and...
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On December 11th, 2020 with 111 comments
Oracle said on Friday it's moving its headquarters from the Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas. CNBC reports: "Oracle is implementing a more flexible employee...
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On December 9th, 2020 with 103 comments
theodp writes: As the 8th annual Hour of Code kicked off this week, the College Board released 2020 AP national and state score breakouts for AP CS program...
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On December 8th, 2020 with 11 comments
Amazon.com, American Express, Daimler AG and Stripe are among those joining a new GitHub program that will let companies directly fund open-source projects and...
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On December 5th, 2020 with 54 comments
This week the Microsoft-owned code repository site GitHub released its annual report with statistics about its community, writes programming columnist Mike...
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On December 4th, 2020 with 50 comments
The programming language JavaScript emerged 25 years ago and has grown to become one of the most important pieces of the web and browser applications we use...
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On December 3rd, 2020 with 50 comments
GitHub has released its annual Octoverse report, revealing trends in one of the largest developer communities on the planet, including a spike in open source...
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On December 1st, 2020 with 26 comments
"Need a vacation from 2020? Why not go on an adventure and learn programming at the same time?" asks developer Eric Wastl on Twitter, announcing this year's...
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On November 28th, 2020 with 21 comments
47 of Python's core developers participated in this year's Core Development Sprint, according to this report — "but what's more important is the very...
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On November 28th, 2020 with 85 comments
"PHP version 8.0 has arrived, bringing with it a major update to the 25-year-old programming language..." writes Tech Republic.
New language features include...
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On November 23rd, 2020 with 70 comments
Romello Goodman, a software engineer at The New York Times, writing at Increment: Like a sourdough starter passed through the hands of many bakers -- some...
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On November 23rd, 2020 with 44 comments
A partner at an early-stage investment firm argues that "in the 2000s everyone was learning HTML and making a website. In the 2010s everyone was learning to...
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On November 17th, 2020 with 54 comments
Unity Technologies hopes to groom 80,000 people for game jobs over three years with an education initiative aimed at helping people learn how to program and...
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On November 15th, 2020 with 113 comments
"Earlier this week Apple announced their new, ARM-based 'Apple Silicon' machines to the world in a slick marketing event that had many of us reaching for our...
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On November 14th, 2020 with 108 comments
Programming columnist Mike Melanson assesses the news that Guido Van Rossum, the creator of the Python programming language, has come out of retirement to join...
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On November 13th, 2020 with 107 comments
The origins of C++ date back 40 years, yet it remains one of the most widely used programming languages today. TechRepublic spoke to C++ creator, Bjarne...
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On November 12th, 2020 with 77 comments
Guido van Rossum, the creator of the Python programming language, today announced that he has unretired and joined Microsoft's Developer Division. From a...
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On November 8th, 2020 with 233 comments
Appearing on ABC, former Chicago Mayor and Obama White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel on Friday volunteered some suggestions for an economic recovery plan...
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If graphics hackers are so smart, why can't they get the bugs out of fresh paint?
