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Google’s decision to write new code into Android’s codebase in Rust, a memory-safe programming language, has resulted in a significant drop in memory safety vulnerabilities, despite old code (written in C/C++) not having been rewritten. The… Continue reading The number of Android memory safety vulnerabilities has tumbled, and here’s why
Have you wanted to get into GPU programming with CUDA but found the usual textbooks and guides a bit too intense? Well, help is at hand in the form of …read more Continue reading Learn GPU Programming With Simple Puzzles
The JavaScript runtime Bun is a Node.js/Deno alternative (that’s also a bundler/test runner/package manager).
And Bun 1.1.28 now includes experimental support for “>compiling and running native C from JavaScript, according to this report from The … Continue reading ‘Compile and Run C in JavaScript’, Promises Bun
Lisp is one of those programming languages that seems to keep taunting us for not learning it properly. It is still used for teaching functional languages today. [Adam McDaniel] has …read more Continue reading Get Your Lisp On With The Dune Shell
The Rust foundation is making “considerable progress” on a complete security audit of the Rust ecosystem, according to the coding news site I Programmer, citing a newly-released report from the nonprofit Rust foundation:
The foundation is investigatin… Continue reading The Rust Foundation is Reviewing and Improving Rust’s Security
Redmonk’s latest programming language ranking (attempting to gauge “potential future adoption trends”) has found evidence of “a landscape resistant to change.”
Outside of CSS moving down a spot and C++ moving up one, the Top 10 was unchanged. And even… Continue reading JavaScript, Python, Java: Redmonk’s Programming Language Ranking Sees Lack of Change
The Register reports that Google “recently rewrote the firmware for protected virtual machines in its Android Virtualization Framework using the Rust programming language.” And they add that Google “wants you to do the same, assuming you deal with firm… Continue reading Two Android Engineers Explain How They Extended Rust In Android’s Firmware
GitHub Actions let developers “automate software builds and tests,” writes CSO Online, “by setting up workflows that trigger when specific events are detected, such as when new code is committed to the repository.”
They also “can be reused and shared… Continue reading GitHub Actions Typosquatting: a High-Impact Supply Chain Attack-in-Waiting?
Unlike the today’s consumer computer market, the 1980s were the wild west in comparison. There were all kinds of different, incompatible operating systems, hardware, and programs, all competing against one …read more Continue reading It’s Spreadsheets All The Way Down for This 80s Handheld
Pundits aggregate results from multiple pollsters to minimize biases. So ZDNet tried the same approach, but aggregating rankings for the popularity of 19 top programming languages. Senior contributing editor David Gewirtz combined results from nine pop… Continue reading Python, JavaScript, Java: ZDNet Calculates The Most Popular Programming Languages