Ryan Dahl, creator of Node.js and Deno, gave a new interview this week to the IT outsourcing company Evrone: Evrone: You have hands-on experience with lots of programming languages: C, Rust, Ruby, JavaScript, TypeScript. Which one do you enjoy the most to work with? Ryan: I have the most fun writing Rust these days. It has a steep learning curve and…
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C Passed Java to Take #1 Spot on TIOBE’s Index
“C is at the top of the list of TIOBE’S Index for February 2021 with Java in second place,” reports TechRepublic: Those two languages swapped positions on the list as compared to 2020, but the rest of the list is almost exactly the same as a year ago. Python is in the No. 3 spot followed by C++, C#, Visual Basic,…
The Ethical Source Movement Launches a New Kind of Open-Source Organization
ZDNet takes a look at a new nonprofit group called the Organization for Ethical Source (OES): The OES is devoted to the idea that the free software and open-source concept of “Freedom Zero” are outdated. Freedom Zero is “the freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose.” It’s fundamental to how open-source software is made and used… They…
Are We Experiencing a Great Software Stagnation?
Long-time programmer/researcher/former MIT research fellow Jonathan Edwards writes a blog called “Alarming Development: Dispatches from the User Liberation Front.” He began the new year by arguing that software “is eating the world. But progress in software technology itself largely stalled around 1996.” Slashdot reader tonique summarizes Edwards’ argument:
In 1996 there were “LISP, Algol, Basic, APL, Unix, C, Oracle, Smalltalk, Windows, C++,…
Basecamp Releases Hotwire for Building Web Applications Using ‘HTML Over the Wire’
Basecamp’s David Heinemeier Hansson (the creator of Ruby on Rails) announced on Twitter this week that “all the tricks and tooling we used to build the front-end for Hey.com” have now been released as Hotwire (also known as New Magic), “an alternative approach to building modern web applications without using much JavaScript by sending HTML instead of JSON over the wire.”…
What’s the birthstone for October?
If you were born in October, your birth month has 2 birthstones: opal and tourmaline. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/october-birthstone-opal-tourmaline…
Ruby Wax interview: We are addicted to bad news but we can break free
There is plenty to worry about right now, but that doesn’t mean we should forget about the reasons for optimism, says comedian and mental health advocate Ruby Wax Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24833020-700-ruby-wax-interview-we-are-addicted-to-bad-news-but-we-can-break-free/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Survey Finds Only 3% of Ruby on Rails Developers Use Windows
This week saw the release of the 2020 Ruby on Rails Community Survey Results:
2,049 members of the Rails community from 92 countries kindly contributed their thoughts on tools, frameworks, and workflows in their day to day development lives. From these responses we hope to get an understanding of where Rails stands as a framework in 2020. Some of these questions have…
Microsoft Launches New Web Site Describing How It’s Embracing Open Source
Microsoft just launched a new website “to showcase how it’s embracing open source to ‘bring choice, technology and community to our customers,'” reports ZDNet: Microsoft, under CEO Satya Nadella, has said and done a lot to shed its image as a pariah of Linux and open-source software communities. With a Linux kernel for Windows 10, GitHub, a new Android Surface Duo,…
TIOBE’s Surprisingly Popular Programming Languages: R, Go, Perl, Scratch, Rust, and Visual Basic 6
The R programming language is experiencing a surge in popularity “in the slipstream of Python,” according to this month’s TIOBE index, leaping into the top ten. “For historical context, we wrote of R’s spot in TIOBE nearly two years ago, and it had just made the leap from #50 to #39,” writes programming columnist Mike Melanson. ZDNet writes: In May, when…