Tim Anderson
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What's the top programming language? It's not JavaScript but Python, says IEEE survey
Python is the "de facto platform for new technologies," according to research by the IEEE in its Spectrum publication. The new survey places Python, Java, C, and C++ as the top four programming languages. JavaScript, which typically tops such surveys, is in fifth place. By contrast, StackOverflow reported earlier this month that JavaScript was the most used language by some margin, with 65 per… → Read More
The killing of CentOS Linux: 'The CentOS board doesn't get to decide what Red Hat engineering teams do'
Brian Exelbierd, Red Hat Liaison and CentOS board member, gives the company perspective → Read More
Buggy chkdsk in Windows update that caused boot failures and damaged file systems has been fixed
Improving Windows' quality by making it not boot? → Read More
Got $50k spare? Then you can crack SHA-1 – so OpenSSH is deprecating flawed hashing algo in a 'near-future release'
The maintainers of OpenSSH, widely used for connecting securely to servers and devices over networks, have warned that the SHA-1 algorithm will be disabled in a "near-future release". SHA stands for Secure Hash Algorithm. The SHA-1 implementation has been known to be vulnerable since 2005 though still requiring reassuringly non-trivial amounts of computation to break. More powerful attacks have… → Read More
Embrace and kill? AppGet dev claims Microsoft reeled him in with talk of help and a job – then released remarkably similar package manager
Keivan Beigi, developer of AppGet, has described how Microsoft nearly hired him to work on the open-source Windows package manager as an official feature, then went quiet for six months before announcing WinGet, which Beigi says is "very inspired by AppGet". Microsoft unveiled WinGet at its Build virtual event earlier this month. At the time, Senior program manager Demitrius Nelon said: "What… → Read More
Ardour goes harder: v6.0 brings 'huge engineering changes' to open-source digital audio workstation
Dev sticks with elderly GTK+2 GUI toolkit because 'we would gain nothing' by upgrading → Read More
'I wrote Task Manager': Former Microsoft programmer Dave Plummer spills the beans
'There should be nothing that TaskMgr can't kill' – sadly no longer the case → Read More
eBay users spot the online auction house port-scanning their PCs. Um... is that OK?
Fraud is a big issue for etailer, but there are privacy and consent concerns too → Read More
Microsoft brings WinUI to desktop apps: It's a landmark for Windows development, but it has taken far too long
Hands On Microsoft has pushed out a preview of WinUI for desktop applications, making it possible for developers to adopt the look and feel of UWP (Universal Windows Platform) without having to adopt the UWP application model. WinUI is Microsoft’s GUI framework for Universal Windows Platform (UWP), and the big news at the recent virtual Build event was the release of WinUI Preview 1 which also… → Read More
Unlucky for some, GitLab 13.0 is DevSecOps in a box, but will it play nicely with others?
GitLab version 13.0, the company's major release of 2020, is out today. Rival GitHub is the biggest player in online code repositories, with Atlassian's Bitbucket and GitLab also popular. GitLab is a distinctive proposition, though, aiming to be the only platform you need for DevSecOps, whereas GitHub and Bitbucket have a narrower focus. GitLab covers a suite of applications including… → Read More
Document? Library? A new kind of component? Microsoft had a hard time explaining what its Fluid Framework is
Real-time collaboration in Office 365 but .NET developers sidelined in favour of JavaScript → Read More
Hands up who wants to listen to Google blather on about cloud stuff? OK, a few of you. How about for nine weeks?
More than you could ever want to NOA about Google Cloud Platform → Read More
Microsoft announces official Windows package manager. 'Not a package manager' users snap back
Linux envy? And why not use existing ones like Chocolatey? → Read More
Microsoft aims to spread JAMstack through Azure App Service via GitHub and Visual Studio Code
Developers, get ready to hook into Windows giant's cloud → Read More
Project Reunion: Microsoft's attempt to tear down all those barriers it's built for Windows developers over the years
Plus: Bye-bye Xamarin Forms, hello Multi-Platform App UI, for when Universal is not universal enough → Read More
Podcast Addict Play Store ban: Android chief says soz for incorrect removal, developers aren't impressed
Chorus of 'what about my app' protests follow executive intervention → Read More
Azure-hosted AI for finding code defects emitted – but does it work?
How many defects has it found? Never mind that, check out the architecture flow chart → Read More
Podcast Addict banned from Google Play Store because heaven forbid app somehow references COVID-19
Meanwhile, Pushbullet pushes back after Chrome extension pulled → Read More
Node.js creator delivers Deno 1.0, a new runtime that fixes 'design mistakes in Node'
Please help us rewrite the TypeScript compiler in Rust → Read More
AWS pulls its Red Hat on with managed OpenShift collab
Plus: AWS tool for defining Kubernetes apps without having to write YAML → Read More