It was a technically superior machine to the IBM PCs of the day, but somehow, the growing business market for computers couldn’t tell the difference, so whichever one (60×86 PCs with DOS then Windows) took the early lead in the market just kept growing by the network effect (every business Read more…
SlashData’s “State of the Developer Nation” surveyed more than 20,000 developers in 166 countries, taken from December 2021 to February 2022, reports InfoWorld. It found the most popular programming language is JavaScript — followed by Python (which apparently added 3.3 million new net developers in just the last six months). Read more…
A UCLA assistant professor of Information Studies just published a short history of software engineering in Logic magazine — titled “Agile and the Long Crisis of Software.” It begins by describing Agile’s history as “a long-running wrestling match between what managers want software development to be and what it really Read more…
An interesting tidbit from Mike Melanson’s column, “This Week in Programming.” “If a proposal unveiled this week gets its way, JavaScript developers will soon have something that many of them have long been asking for: a type system, of some sort at least.” A blog post by TypeScript senior program Read more…
Tech-bankrolled nonprofit Code.org is inviting kids to join the Coldplay Dance Party, explaining in a Medium post that “we’ve teamed up with award-winning band Coldplay to launch a global campaign that celebrates music and computer science.” Teachers and students are encouraged to “share your creations for Code.org and Coldplay to Read more…
Ransomware is driving developer interest in cybersecurity while the Internet of Things and games development has spurred more interest in 35-year-old programming language C++, according to O’Reilly Media’s 2021 learning platform analysis. However, it could the case that developers are looking at some newer languages to give them the edge. Read more…
“A team of researchers has finally created a long-sought locally testable code that can immediately betray whether it’s been corrupted…” reports Quanta magazine. “Many thought local testability would never be achieved in its ideal form.” Now, in a preprint released on November 8, the computer scientist Irit Dinur of the Read more…