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Ruby on Rails creator deplores ‘open-source hooliganism’

Ryan Daws — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 11:23:42 +0000

Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson has expressed his concerns about what he called “open-source hooliganism.” Hansson recounted a recent incident involving the TypeScript community and their reaction to a decision made by the team behind Turbo. Hansson began by acknowledging the passion that many developers have for their preferred programming languages and tools.... Read more »

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TypeScript 5: A look at the major changes

Ryan Daws — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 10:03:10 +0000

In this article, we’ll take a look at some of the major changes in TypeScript 5. TypeScript 5 was released earlier this month. The latest version features numerous improvements to make the language smaller, simpler, and faster. Here are the biggest changes in the latest release: Variadic tuple types Variadic tuple types allow developers to... Read more »

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The most in-demand programming languages for 2023

Ryan Daws — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 13:01:13 +0000

Coding Dojo has released its list of the most in-demand programming languages for this year. The list uses the number of open full-time jobs to determine the skills that employers are desperately looking for. Notably, the top three most in-demand languages have been shaken up. Likely driven by the demand for machine learning solutions, Python... Read more »

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These programming languages were most in-demand in 2021

Ryan Daws — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 14:55:07 +0000

Coding Dojo has released its annual review of the programming language skills most sought after from employers. For its research, Coding Dojo scours jobs listing site Indeed. The company looks at what languages appear most in job descriptions and compares their prevalence with previous years to identify trends that could give you an advantage. Python... Read more »

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State of APIs 2021: ‘Great Resignation’ leading challenge, security remains a top focus

Ryan Daws — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 16:24:46 +0000

RapidAPI’s latest State of APIs developer survey finds the cross-industry “Great Resignation” is the leading challenge facing the industry, while security remains a top focus. Employees are leaving their current jobs in record numbers as part of the so-called Great Resignation due to burnout, income stagnation, poor treatment, and low satisfaction. Almost half of the... Read more »

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2021 Stack Overflow Survey: React.js takes the web framework crown, Python is in-demand, and devs still love Rust

Ryan Daws — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 12:42:58 +0000

The 2021 edition of Stack Overflow’s developer survey features both substantial changes in the landscape while other elements have remained stubbornly resilient. In a blog post, Stack Overflow’s Ben Popper and David Gibson wrote: “This year’s survey was a little different than ones in years past. We opened our 2020 survey in February, and by... Read more »

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SlashData: JavaScript and Python boast largest developer communities

Ryan Daws — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 14:29:57 +0000

A new report from SlashData highlights the huge growth in the global developer community over the past six months. The developer economy research specialists estimate there are now 24.3 million global developers, as of Q1 2021. This has increased by around 14 percent from 21.3 million in October 2020. JavaScript continues to attract new developers... Read more »

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Brain activity while coding differs from processing language or doing maths

Ryan Daws — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 17:35:31 +0000

Neuroscientists from MIT have discovered that brain activity while coding differs from processing language or doing mathematics. Coding is often likened to learning a new foreign language—and there are certainly many similarities. To the brain itself, however, it seems to be quite different. The researchers took fMRI brain scans of young adults taking part in... Read more »

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Python: Is it right for my business?

Lukasz Koczwara — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 17:30:44 +0000

There is a plethora of choice when it comes to different programming languages. Python is just one of many widely used, but boasts the likes of Google, Youtube, Instagram and Spotify as some of the household names adopting it. So, why should a business choose Python over the likes of Java for its programming language... Read more »

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State of the Octoverse 2020: Devs increase productivity despite pandemic

Ryan Daws — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 16:35:19 +0000

GitHub’s latest State of the Octoverse has been released, offering developer insights for a year which has been unlike any other. Fortunately, software development is one industry which could adapt quickly to the unique circumstances brought about by the pandemic. Many developers already work remotely so, for some, minimal-to-no changes were required to their working... Read more »

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