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…
ZDNet reports: JavaScript is now used by more than 16.4 million developers globally, says a survey of more than 19,000 coders — making it the world’s most popular programming language “by a wide margin”. SlashData’s 21st State of the Developer Nation Report examined global software developer trends across 160 countries Read more…
“It has never been more difficult to be a software developer than it is today,” says Nigel Simpson, a former director of enterprise technology strategy at Walt Disney. And they’re not the only one who thinks so, writes the U.K. Group editor of InfoWorld: “Complexity kills,” Lotus Notes creator and Read more…