Tim Anderson
Little sign of migration from C or C++ to Rust in latest dev survey – but PostgreSQL is winning against MySQL
Stack Overflow has published its 2024 developer survey, showing little change in programming language popularity despite calls for […]
Security audit finds issues with ‘misuse-prone’ Homebrew package manager for macOS, most are fixed
A security audit of the Homebrew package manager, widely used by developers on macOS and also available on […]
AWS quietly freezes CodeCommit, Cloud9, SimpleDB and more, customers complain about lack of notice
AWS appears to be backtracking on its efforts to provide a complete DevOps service to its customers, with the CodeCommit source code repository service now closed to new customers.
Stack Exchange restricts access to dump of user-contributed data, critics complain this contradicts license
Stack Exchange, whose best-known site is the developer question and answer resource Stack Overflow, will restrict access to […]
Node.js adds experimental TypeScript support, as it ‘simply cannot be ignored’
The Node.js project has added TypeScript support – behind an “experimental” flag – with Technical Steering Committee member […]
Uno Platform 5.3 released with full JetBrains Rider support and ‘350 enhancements’
The Uno Platform team has released version 5.3 of its cross-platform framework for .NET, with full support for […]
PHP 8.4 is coming in November with HTML 5 extension, new array functions, and more
The PHP team has released Alpha 2 of PHP 8.4 – an update of this popular language planned […]
React community splitting into full-stack and client-only camps, suggests survey
The latest “State of React” survey suggests that while some developers are racing ahead with major recent features […]
Executives have more confidence in software supply chain security than their developers
A report sponsored by DevOps company JFrog suggests that executives over-estimate the extent to which developers within their […]
Why Facebook does not use Git – and why most other devs do
Facebook internal development started out on Subversion with a Git mirror but switched to Mercurial for source code […]