After 27 years, Tcl/Tk 9 finally arrives with 64-bit power and Zip file magic
Now that's the kind of stability we like
Software02 Oct 2024 | 17
Programming Language
Open source programming language R patches gnarly arbitrary code exec flaw
Updated An ACE in the hole for miscreants
Patches01 May 2024 | 1
Catch Java 22, available from Oracle for a limited time
Latest release of coffee-themed programming language aspires to simplicity with a dozen new features
Software19 Mar 2024 | 47
RIP: Software design pioneer and Pascal creator Niklaus Wirth
Obit Evangelist of lean software and devisor of 9 programming languages and an OS was 89
Software04 Jan 2024 | 130
40 years of Turbo Pascal, the coding dinosaur that revolutionized IDEs
The legacy can still be felt today
Software04 Dec 2023 | 110
Revival of Medley/Interlisp: Elegant weapon for a more civilized age sharpened up again
ANTIQUE CODE SHOW Restoration project described in BCS talk is gathering steam
OSes23 Nov 2023 | 90
NARROWER TOPICS
Fresh curl tomorrow will patch 'worst' security flaw in ages
Updated It’s bad, folks. Pair of CVEs incoming on October 11
Patches10 Oct 2023 | 11
Microsoft drops official support for Python 3.7 in Visual Studio Code
Should still work for the foreseeable future, but rely on it at your own risk
Software09 Oct 2023 | 25
IBM says GenAI can convert that old COBOL code to Java for you
Folks in the Z mainframe game can have a play soon... if they dare
Software22 Aug 2023 | 70
Inclusive Naming Initiative limps towards release of dangerous digital dictionary
Proposes a mere ten terms it feels should disappear from tech vocabularies
Offbeat22 Jun 2023 | 246
Flutter now has less stutter and plays nicer with the web
Version 3.7 shows Google's cross-platform, Dart-based UI framework maturing
Software25 Jan 2023 |
GCC 13 to support Modula-2: Follow-up to Pascal lives on in FOSS form
Niklaus Wirth's lesser known programming language still kicking around
Software16 Dec 2022 | 49
New research aims to analyze how widespread COBOL is
Stand up and be counted, ye ancient code wizards
Software14 Dec 2022 | 94
C++ zooms past Java in programming popularity contest
TIOBE or not TIOBE, that is the question
Software10 Dec 2022 | 59
Google's Dart language soon won't take null for an answer
Unavoidable variable safety coming in version 3
Software09 Dec 2022 | 78
NSA urges orgs to use memory-safe programming languages
C/C++ on the bench, as US snoop HQ puts its trust in Rust, C#, Go, Java, Ruby, Swift
Security11 Nov 2022 | 154
Google submits Go apps container project to Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Did we say donate? We meant submit. Megacorp swiftly KOs former blog title
Devops19 Oct 2022 | 2
Is it time to retire C and C++ for Rust in new programs?
Column Mark Russinovich, Microsoft Azure CTO, thinks so
Software28 Sep 2022 | 197
Python tops programming love list – but if you want a job, learn SQL
Don't ask us how this is decided, it probably involved a lot of Perl
Software24 Aug 2022 | 97
Wordle recreated in Pascal for the Multics operating system
Why? I had motivation problems and wanted to kill a few hours, says dev
Offbeat07 Jun 2022 | 9
Heresy: Hare programming language an alternative to C
Hare-brained. Bad Hare day. Hare no evil, say no evil ... At least it'll be a pun goldmine
Software26 Apr 2022 | 123
Google now requires two staff to sign off each Go change
Move is supposed to be double-plus good for supply-chain security
Devops05 Apr 2022 | 16
Any fool can write a language: It takes compilers to save the world
Opinion The language wars were fun, but they're done
Software04 Apr 2022 | 144
The wild world of non-C operating systems
You can't fool me, young man. It's C all the way down!
Software29 Mar 2022 | 220
C: Everyone's favourite programming language isn't a programming language
'It has completely distorted the way we speak to each other,' says Swift and Rust boffin
Software23 Mar 2022 | 405
Oracle releases Java JDK 18 with enhanced source code documentation
Short-term release includes Simple Web Server, pattern matching for switch expressions, and more
Software23 Mar 2022 | 13
What does Go-written malware look like? Here's a sample under the microscope
Arid Gopher sticks its head out from its burrow
Security22 Mar 2022 | 6
JavaScript library updated to wipe files from Russian computers
Package used by big apps now drops anti-war text files on desktops
Devops18 Mar 2022 | 56
An open-source COBOL contender emerges
An all-FOSS, direct-to-binary compiler for the 63-year-old programming language
Software16 Mar 2022 | 80
On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me... a coding puzzle and it's a doozy
2021 Advent of Code prepares for launch
Software01 Dec 2021 | 53
You loved running JavaScript in your web browser. Now, get ready for Python scripting
All thanks to CPython, WebAssembly, and some clever developers (And yes, there's Pyodide, too)
Software30 Nov 2021 | 36
Eight EXCELLENT languages for the fondleslab-friendly Intranet of Thingies
Stob Shifting software paradigms and so forth
Columnists20 Jan 2014 | 54
Oracle lowers the flag on Fortress language project
The latest ex-Sun effort to be felled by Larry's axe
Software23 Jul 2012 | 6
Python 3.0 appears, strangles 2.x compatibility
No more snake jokes. We promise
Software04 Dec 2008 | 24
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