Safe c plus plus proposal abandoned after community pushback
Tuesday, November 25, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
In the ever-evolving landscape of software development, a significant effort to overhaul the C++ programming language for enhanced safety has come to an abrupt halt. The Safe C++ proposal, which sought to introduce a memory-safe subset of the language inspired by the guarantees found in newer languages like Rust, has been abandoned by its lead author. This development o...
Introducing capn web a new javascript rpc protocol
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
A new Remote Procedure Call (RPC) protocol and implementation named Cap'n Web has been introduced, written entirely in TypeScript. Designed as a spiritual sibling to Cap'n Proto, this new system is engineered specifically for the modern web stack. Cap'n Web distinguishes itself by having no schemas and minimal boilerplate, which simplifies setup and integrat...
Developers leveraging AI generate more code, survey finds
Thursday, September 11, 2025 by Trey Abbe
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly influencing software development, and a recent survey suggests that developers leveraging AI are reshaping coding workflows. Cloud platform provider Fastly conducted a survey in July 2025 with 791 professional developers, revealing notable differences in AI usage between junior and senior developers.
How senior developers ...
Stack Overflow 2025 Developer Survey
Friday, August 29, 2025 by Austin Harris
The 2025 Developer Survey from Stack Overflow gathered input from over 49,000 developers in 177 countries. The survey covered 62 questions on 314 technologies, with new focus areas including AI agent tools, large language models (LLMs), and developer community platforms. Now in its fifteenth year, it provides a broad look at the state of software development worldwide.
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The CodeLogic CSI lands to reduce software breaking code
Thursday, July 14, 2022 by Richard Harris
CodeLogic, the Continuous Software Intelligence company, has launched the developer toolkit that scans post-compile binaries, runtime app behavior, and database connections to provide a complete and up-to-the-second picture of infrastructure-wide software connections and dependencies. CodeLogic says they address the unrelenting complexity that, according ...
CircleCI for Microsoft Windows is here
Wednesday, August 7, 2019 by Richard Harris
CircleCI launched the general availability of support for Windows jobs. Organizations such as Angular, Samsung NEXT are able to achieve further flexibility over their development pipelines with the addition of Windows.
According to Stack Overflow’s 2019 Developer Survey, nearly half of respondents reported building on Windows, yet no native Windo...
Stack Overflow for Teams launches
Monday, May 7, 2018 by Richard Harris
Stack Overflow has announced the launch of Stack Overflow for Teams, the new platform that allows development teams of any size to quickly find answers to questions without disrupting their workflow. Teams is a private, internal central knowledge source where team members can find answers to their questions quickly and efficiently. Stack Overflow for Teams presents a ne...
The most loved and hated programming languages
Tuesday, March 13, 2018 by Richard Harris
Stack Overflow has released the Stack Overflow Annual Developer Survey results. With more than 100,000 responses from coders in 184 countries and dependent territories, it is the most extensive survey of the programmer workforce to date.The 2018 survey offers vital insights for businesses looking to understand, hire, engage, and enable the world's developers - shedding ...
Bitcoin job skills are hot says latest report
Monday, February 12, 2018 by Richard Harris
Upwork has released its newest quarterly index of the hottest skills in the U.S. freelance job market. The Upwork Skills Index ranks the site’s 20 fastest-growing skills in a quarterly series that sheds light on new and emerging skills as an indication of hot freelance job market trends. According to a recent study, 57.3 million Americans (36 percent of the U.S. workfor...
5,000 developers and professionals responded in Skill Up 2017
Wednesday, July 19, 2017 by Richard Harris
Nearly 5,000 developers and tech professionals across the world responded to Packt’s third annual Skill Up survey to share their thoughts on the latest tech tools and trends, and how they work and learn. Skill Up 2017 also investigated wider questions about the tech industry - from its status and value in organizations and industry, through to urgent issues around diver...
A talk with Stack Overflow about their new app
Friday, June 2, 2017 by Richard Harris
Stack Overflow has recently released their new app to the mobile markets, allowing developers everywhere to seek the coding answers that they desire in an all new and stylish way. If you're anything like me, Stack Overflow is a necessity when it comes to troubleshooting and debugging any code language for any platform. Their website sports a robust community of knowledg...
Battery Venture ranks top OpenSource projects in new report
Wednesday, April 12, 2017 by Austin Harris
As enterprise-IT departments become more enamored with - and dependent on - open-source software, investment firm Battery Ventures has released a new index ranking open-source projects according to their user activity, popularity, ability to create jobs and traction among developers.The Battery Open-Source Software (BOSS) Index highlights the increasing reliance on free...
Scanning JavaScript for vulnerabilities: How the impossible is now possible
Friday, January 13, 2017 by Matt Howard
Javascript is everywhere, and it's awesome! But the world most popular language can be riddled with problems if you aren't a careful programmer.There is a saying that speaks to the incredible popularity of JavaScript as a programming language and it goes like this: “any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.” The we...
Views From the Front and Back Side of App Development Careers
Wednesday, June 8, 2016 by Steve Kinney
Interested in landing a job with Google as a back-end developer? Well, you best have working knowledge of Java, C++, or Python. How about Twitter? Might want to be familiar with Ruby on Rails, Scala, C++, or Java. What if you’re interested in a position working as a front-end engineer? The programming language is pretty universal - JavaScript. According to research...
