Collaborate Disseminate
The creators of four programming languages will appear together onstage for a historic conversation on September 19th.
– Adele Goldberg — Smalltalk
– Guido Van Rossum — Python
– Anders Hejlsberg — Turbo Pascal, C#, TypeScript
– Jame… Continue reading Creators of Python, Java, TypeScript, and SmallTalk Will Make a Joint Apperance for Charity
The creators of four programming languages will appear together onstage for a historic conversation on September 19th.
– Adele Goldberg — Smalltalk
– Guido Van Rossum — Python
– Anders Hejlsberg — Turbo Pascal, C#, TypeScript
– Jame… Continue reading Creators of Python, Java, TypeScript, and SmallTalk Will Make a Joint Appearance for Charity
“Amazon launches cloud service to help non-coders build apps,” read the 2020 headline at CNBC — both mobile and web applications.
But long-time Slashdot reader theodp has the rest of the story:
Customers have told us that the need for custom… Continue reading Amazon’s Honeycode No-Code App Builder Is No-More
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes:
During the U.S. presidential campaign of 1928, a circular published by the Republican Party claimed that if Herbert Hoover won there would be “a chicken in every pot”. Times change. When talk turned to educat… Continue reading Is ‘CS In Every School’ the 2024 Presidential Campaign’s ‘Chicken In Every Pot’?
72-year-old Bjarne Stroustrup invented C++ (first released in 1985). 38 years later, he gave a short interview for Honeypot.io (which calls itself “Europe’s largest tech-focused job platform”) offering his own advice for life:
Don’t overspecialize. D… Continue reading 72-Year-Old C++ Creator Bjarne Stroustrup Shares Life Advice
In this Help Net Security video, Andy Hornegold, Product Lead at Intruder, dives into API security and explores how several recent high-profile breaches were caused by simple failings – which didn’t require sophisticated security to prevent. The number… Continue reading Understanding how attackers exploit APIs is more important than ever
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Measuring, tracking, and benchmarking developer productivity has long been considered a black box. It doesn’t have to be that way.” So begins global management consulting firm McKinsey in Yes, You Can Measure So… Continue reading Can You Measure Software Developer Productivity?
“Serde, a popular Rust (de)serialization project, has decided to ship its serde_derive macro as a precompiled binary,” reports Bleeping Computer.
“The move has generated a fair amount of push back among developers who worry about its future legal and… Continue reading Rust Users Push Back as Popular ‘Serde’ Project Ships Precompiled Binaries
Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a prototype pipeline for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that can “distill” binary executables into human-intelligible code so that it can be updated and deployed in “weeks, days, or hour… Continue reading Why DARPA Hopes To ‘Distill’ Old Binaries Into Readable Code
Canonical engineering manager Ben Hoyt believes that a variable’s name is more important than its type, so “the name should be more prominent and come first in declarations.”
In many popular programming languages, including C, C++, Java, and C#, when … Continue reading Should a Variable’s Type Come After Its Name?