Collaborate Disseminate
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
theodp writes: Typos happen to the best of us, but spelling still counts when it comes to software development. So, it’s kind of surprising to see that both Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and former AWS CEO Adam Selipsky failed to notice an embarrassing typo in… Continue reading Amazon and AWS Developers May Not Want To Invite Their CEOs To Java Code Reviews
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp shared this anecdote about Amazon’s GenAI assistant for software development, Amazon Q:
On Thursday, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy took to Twitter to boast that using Amazon Q to do Java upgrades has already saved Amazon from … Continue reading Amazon CEO: AI-Assisted Code Transformation Saved Us 4,500 Years of Developer Work