Category Archives: Programming

“After approximately seven years in development, the Eclipse Foundation’s Theia IDE project is now generally available,” writes ADT magazine, “emerging from beta to challenge Microsoft’s similar Visual Studio Code (VS Code) editor.”

The Eclipse Theia … Continue reading Eclipse Foundation Releases Open-Source Theia IDE – Compatible with VS Code Extensions→

USENIX, the long-running OS/networking research group, also publishes a magazine called ;login:. Today the magazine’s editor — security consultant Rik Farrow — stopped by Slashdot to share some new research. rikfarrow writes:
Caching means … Continue reading Caching Is Key, and SIEVE Is Better Than LRU→

Last month TIOBE announced its estimate that the four most popular programming languages were:
1. Python
2. C
3. C++
4. Java
But this month C++ “overtook” C for the first time, TIOBE announced, becoming (according to the same methodology) the #2 most… Continue reading Is C++ More Popular Than C?→

This week the Rust Foundation jointly announced “the Safety-Critical Rust Consortium” with industry partners including Arm, AdaCore, Lynx Software Technologies, and Toyota’s mobility tech subsidiary Woven. Its goal is supporting “responsible use” of Ru… Continue reading Rust’s Foundation Announces a New ‘Safety-Critical Rust Consortium’→

“Rust is the fastest-growing programming language, with its developer community doubling in size over the past two years,” writes The New Stack, “yet JavaScript remains the most popular language with 25.2 million active developers, according to the res… Continue reading Rust Growing Fastest, But JavaScript Reigns Supreme→

Mistral, the French AI startup backed by Microsoft and valued at $6 billion, has released its first generative AI model for coding, dubbed Codestral. From a report: Codestral, like other code-generating models, is designed to help developers write and … Continue reading Mistral Releases Codestral, Its First Generative AI Model For Code→

A Rust Foundation blog post begins by reminding readers that Rust programs “are unable to compile if memory management rules are violated, essentially eliminating the possibility of a memory issue at runtime.”

But then it goes on to explore “Unsafe R… Continue reading Rust Foundation Reports 20% of Rust Crates Use ‘Unsafe’ Keyword→

“The TIOBE Index sets out to reflect the relative popularity of computer languages,” writes i-Programmer, “so it comes as something of a surprise to see two languages dating from the 1950’s in this month’s Top 20.

Having broken into the the Top 20 in … Continue reading FORTRAN and COBOL Re-enter TIOBE’s Ranking of Programming Language Popularity→

Apple’s grudging accommodation of European law — allowing third-party browser engines on its mobile devices — apparently comes with a restriction that makes it difficult to develop and support third-party browser engines for the region. From a report… Continue reading Apple Geofences Third-Party Browser Engine Work for EU Devices→