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Slashdot readers damn_registrars and GFS666 share the news of the passing of Thomas E. Kurtz, co-inventor of the BASIC programming language back in the 1960s. He was 96. Hackaday reports: The origins of BASIC lie in the Dartmouth Timesharing System, li… Continue reading Thomas E. Kurtz, Co-Inventor of BASIC, Dies At 96
Go reached number seven on the index of most popular programming languages, while the top three stayed the same. Go will likely have a difficult fight ahead. Continue reading TIOBE Programming Index News November 2024: Go Reaches Its Highest-Ever Ranking
Mark Rainey: Engineers are currently debugging why the Voyager 1 spacecraft, which is 15 billions miles away, turned off its main radio and switched to a backup radio that hasn’t been used in over forty years!
I’ve had some tricky debugging issues in… Continue reading The Ultimate in Debugging
Paul Kinlan, who leads the Chrome and the Open Web Developer Relations team at Google, asks and answers the question (with a no.): Frameworks are abstractions over a platform designed for people and teams to accelerate their teams new work and maintena… Continue reading Will We Care About Frameworks in the Future?
Google’s head of research Yossi Matias maintains that learning to code remains “as important as ever” despite AI’s growing role in software development. While AI tools have reduced coding time for some developers — and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai notin… Continue reading Google Research Chief Says Learning To Code ‘as Important as Ever’
Nathan Sobo “joined GitHub in late 2011 to build the Atom text editor,” according to an online biography, “and he led the Atom team until 2018.” Max Brunsfeld joined the Atom team in 2013, and “While driving Atom towards its 1.0 launch during the day, … Continue reading The Team Behind GitHub’s ‘Atom’ IDE Build a Cross-Platform, AI-Optional ‘Zed Editor’
“The Rust trademark policy has been updated and a new draft is available to view,” announced the Rust Foundation this week.
The last proposed trademark policy (in April of 2023) was criticized by open source advocate Bruce Perens in The Register as “… Continue reading Rust Foundation Shares Draft of New, Simpler Trademark Policy
Although generative AI and large language models have been pushed as direct replacements for certain kinds of workers, plenty of businesses actually doing this have found that using this new …read more Continue reading Using AI To Help With Assembly
GitHub released its annual “State of the Octoverse” report this week. And while “Systems programming languages, like Rust, are also on the rise… Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Java remain the most widely used languages on GitHub.”
In fact, “In… Continue reading Python Overtakes JavaScript on GitHub, Annual Survey Finds
Sometimes, hardware projects get cancelled before they have a chance to make an impact, often due to politics or poor economic judgment. The Tsushin Booster for the PC Engine is …read more Continue reading The Tsushin Booster – A PC Engine Modem Add-on With a Twist