Tim Anderson
EU’s proposed CE mark for software could have dire impact on open source
The EU’s proposed Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), which aims to “bolster cybersecurity rules to ensure more secure hardware […]
Rust has no formal specification and it is time that was fixed, says team which ‘longs for formalized type system’
The Rust team will work on formalizing its type system under a process expected to be complete by […]
New Visual Studio preview has intent-based suggestions, spell check and Markdown editor but devs push for new designer
Microsoft has released preview 3 of Visual Studio 17.5, with new features including a spell checker for comments, […]
JetBrains survey: developers 91% male, 73% experience burnout, more liking Rust and Go
Tools vendor JetBrains has published its annual survey of development trends, this time based on responses from around […]
Application security: Survey finds JavaScript beats Java and .NET with fewer flaws, faster fixes
A survey of millions of applications submitted for analysis showed that nearly 75 percent have security flaws, that […]
CircleCI security incident report: customer secrets stolen, unauthorised access to GitHub repos and third-party systems
DevOps player CircleCI has published details of the security incident that forced it to warn cloud customers to […]
Swift will get a new Foundation framework with “no more wrapped C code”
Apple’s Swift language will get a new open source Foundation framework – used in almost all Swift projects […]
Swift will get a new Foundation framework with ‘no more wrapped C code’
Apple’s Swift language will get a new open source Foundation framework – used in almost all Swift projects […]
JavaScript survey shows enthusiasm for Tauri over Electron and Vite over Webpack
State of JavaScript, a survey of nearly 40,000 web developers (twice as many as last year), shows continuing […]
Improved Durable Functions coming to Microsoft’s Azure Functions service – but what about cold start?
Microsoft’s Anirudh Garg, who leads the engineering team for Azure Functions, has posted abut planned improvements to the […]