The latest survey data assessing the JavaScript ecosystem is in, with a heady mix of winners and losers – but a continuing stream of innovation in features and libraries.
The 2019 State of JavaScript study, published at the end of last month, saw more than 21,000 respondents – albeit more than 91% were male – with two thirds (64%) having between two and 10 years’ experience with...
The Apple September event may not be as important for developers as the WWDC back in June, but there is still plenty for folks to be getting on with, from updates to OS app development, gaming, and more.
First of all, developers are now invited to submit updated applications for iOS 13, arriving this time next week. A post on the Apple developer page noted that by April 2020, all new apps and app updates...
Edge computing is being spoken of more and more – but predominantly from the hardware side. What does it mean from a software and development standpoint?
According to new research from MobiledgeX, multi-player and cloud gaming, V2X communications and Industrial IoT are the most viable short-term edge use cases.
The company has released its research...
Intel is putting together a new programming language aimed at simplifying development across workloads and architectures as part of its ‘One API’ initiative.
Data Parallel C++ (DPC++), naturally based on C++ but also incorporating elements of SYCL from The Khronos Group, is touted as being an ‘open, cross-industry alternative to single architecture proprietary languages.’
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) will collaborate on developing a single version of the HTML and DOM specifications – in a move which may help bring the two factions closer together.
The memorandum of understanding means both parties will endeavour to pursue the following path:
W3C and WHATWG will work together on HTML and...
A new study from crowdsourced QA testers Global App Testing has explored developers’ biggest pain points, with Python dethroning JavaScript as Stack Overflow’s most questioned programming language.
The research focused on JavaScript, Python, R, Ruby, C#, C++, Java, Objective-C, Swift, PHP and SQL – not so much 11 languages but 10 languages and a database – and went through a...
If you want to get on board with machine learning, then there may be good news from Amazon Web Services (AWS). The cloud giant has opened up its machine learning courses previously used to train Amazon engineers to all developers.
There are more than 30 digital courses totalling more than 45 hours of material, focusing on four key groups: developers, data scientists, data platform engineers, and business...
Uber has joined the Linux Foundation as a gold member, firming up a long-standing commitment to open source technologies.
The ridesharing firm, which is working on more than 300 open source projects, said it was looking forward to collaborate with other open source leaders to solve problems and further promote open source adoption globally.
One of the...
It is an endearing image for anyone who falls in love with the idea of open source technologies. You have an idea, work hard at it and then eventually give it life, making sure anyone can build with it – and more importantly, build upon it and improve it. Yet, ultimately, bills still need to be paid and mouths fed.
This may have entered the minds of some developers as the news of Red Hat’s...
Everyone wants to do and be agile – but with greater maturation, are there issues in how it comes about? A few noises of late suggest structural changes need to be made.
In April, software provider CollabNet released its latest State of Agile Report, noting as one of its three themes that agile adoption is growing within organisations both more widely and deeply. This publication duly reported on it,...
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