Time to make C the COBOL of this century
Opinion Lions juggling chainsaws are fun to watch, but you wouldn't want them trimming your trees
CSO18 Feb 2025 | 222
Programming
How a good business deal made us underestimate BASIC
Feature A somewhat savvy hardware move may have hurt street cred of an important language
Software03 Jan 2025 | 286
Abstract, theoretical computing qualifications are turning teens off
BCS calls for digital literacy GCSE alongside Computer Science
Personal Tech28 Nov 2024 | 150
BASIC co-creator Thomas Kurtz hits END at 96
Obit Pioneering Dartmouth College mathematician died last week
Bootnotes20 Nov 2024 | 115
Rust haters, unite! Fil-C aims to Make C Great Again
It's memory-safe, with a few caveats
Software16 Nov 2024 | 104
Staff can't code? No prob. Singapore superapp's LLM whips up apps for them
NP-hard to NP at all
AI + ML06 Nov 2024 | 5
NARROWER TOPICS
Biz Daemon is too cool to respond to fans of his big screen work
BORK!BORK!BORK! If only all Android apps were so effortlessly stylish
Bootnotes26 Oct 2024 | 12
Oracle brews Java 23 for just-in-time delivery
Predictably paced programming language plods onward
Software17 Sep 2024 | 4
Who needs GitHub Copilot when you can roll your own AI code assistant at home
Hands on Here's how to get started with the open source tool Continue
AI + ML18 Aug 2024 | 28
Post-CrowdStrike, Microsoft to discourage use of kernel drivers by security tools
Updated Now there's an idea – parsing config data in user mode
OSes29 Jul 2024 | 49
Fragile Agile development model is a symptom, not a source, of project failure
Opinion Changing the fig leaf can't change what lies beneath ...
Software10 Jun 2024 | 84
Stack Overflow to charge LLM developers for access to its coding content
No more freebies – Google signs up to improve Gemini's programming abilities
AI + ML01 Mar 2024 | 13
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be coders, Jensen Huang warns
Maker of ML accelerators wants more people to use ML
AI + ML27 Feb 2024 | 131
Linus Torvalds flames Google kernel contributor over filesystem suggestion
Kernel 6.8-rc2 debuts after very robust discussion about 'inodes'
OSes29 Jan 2024 | 140
If you use AI to teach you how to code, remember you still need to think for yourself
Feature Computer science teachers, software experts share their advice on ML assistants
AI + ML27 Jan 2024 | 23
Linus Torvalds postpones Linux 6.8 merge window after being taken offline by storms
Roads are icy and drivers are dangerous. There will be no Starbucks run.
OSes15 Jan 2024 | 17
CLIs are simply wizard at character building. Let’s not keep them to ourselves
Opinion The magic that defied the iron will of Steve Jobs has a lot more to offer
OSes18 Dec 2023 | 176
40 years of Turbo Pascal, the coding dinosaur that revolutionized IDEs
The legacy can still be felt today
Software04 Dec 2023 | 111
It is 2023 and Excel's reign of date terror might finally be at an end
Data scientists to rejoice as spreadsheet's 'helpfulness' can be curbed
Software23 Oct 2023 | 56
ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam
Compiles learning and code to pass – but not necessarily with flying colors
AI + ML03 Oct 2023 | 17
Google reminds everyone it too can offer an AI code-suggestion bot
Replit after me
AI + ML28 Mar 2023 | 4
Time to study the classics: Vintage tech is the future of enterprise IT
Opinion Look back in wonder
Columnists16 Jan 2023 | 93
New research aims to analyze how widespread COBOL is
Stand up and be counted, ye ancient code wizards
Software14 Dec 2022 | 84
KmsdBot botnet is down after operator sends typo in command
Cashdollar: 'It’s not often we get this kind of story in security'
Cyber-crime06 Dec 2022 | 31
Jaguar Land Rover courts coders caught in big tech layoffs
Got the boot from Musk or Zuck? Automaker has 800 techie vacancies to fill
Devops22 Nov 2022 | 54
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
Girls Who Code books 'banned' in some US classrooms
Updated Culture wars may have come to gentle tales of tweens enjoying friends, fun, programming
Software26 Sep 2022 | 379
The next deep magic Linux program to change the world? Io_uring
Column Even Torvalds pronounces it 'fairly sane'
Software16 Sep 2022 | 55
No longer prepared to svn commit: WebKit migrates to GitHub
Apple's web engine to take advantage of Git’s distributed nature, GitHub’s large community
Devops01 Sep 2022 | 23
RubyGems now requires multi-factor auth for top package maintainers
Sign-on you crazy diamond
Security16 Aug 2022 | 1
FauxPilot: It's like GitHub Copilot but doesn't phone home to Microsoft
Updated And if you train your own AI model for it, you can worry less about licensing
Devops06 Aug 2022 | 20
Visual Studio Code Server untethers developers from their workstations
Install here, write code there without getting bogged down with SSH or HTTPS
Software08 Jul 2022 | 16
TypeScript joins 5 most used languages in 2022 lineup
Stackoverflow survey: JavaScript still in lead. Plus, you may hate COBOL, but users saw a salary jump
Software22 Jun 2022 | 15
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
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 | 146
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
Microsoft proposes type syntax for JavaScript
Long overdue innovation or an affront to all that developers hold dear?
Software14 Mar 2022 | 85
Spruce up your CV or just bin it? Survey finds recruiters are considering alternatives
Shock: Nobody likes whiteboard interviews either
Personal Tech10 Jan 2022 | 70
Microsoft rang in the new year with a cutesy tweet in C#. Just one problem: The code sucked
When marketing meets coding
Applications04 Jan 2022 | 86
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
Turing Award winner Barbara Liskov on CLU and why programming is still cool
Interview Error handling and encapsulation remain the name of the game
Software16 Sep 2021 | 13
What's the top programming language? It's not JavaScript but Python, says IEEE survey
Sounds sus to us – most talked about maybe
Devops25 Aug 2021 | 61
Perl Foundation faces more departures after pausing Community Affairs Team
People just won't quit quitting
Software13 Aug 2021 | 21
Perl's Community Affairs Team chair quits as org put on ice by code language's foundation
Previous statements yanked while charter is 'formalized'
Software09 Aug 2021 | 76
Realizing this is getting out of hand, Coq mulls new name for programming language
Community to think outside the pants
Devops15 Jun 2021 | 219
Google proposes Logica data language for building more manageable SQL code
COBOL-inspired caps lock English just don't add up when dealing with large SQL codebases
Databases15 Apr 2021 | 93
Key Perl Core developer quits, says he was bullied for daring to suggest programming language contained 'cruft'
'After saying this, I immediately received hostile messages' says pumpking of version 5.x
Devops13 Apr 2021 | 68
Not an off-by-one error: Java 16 brings 17 enhancements to Oracle's JDK. We chat to Big Red about what's new
'Other languages may claim that they're vying for the top dog position, but at the end of the day Java is just so prevalent'
Software16 Mar 2021 | 17
This developer created the fake programming language MOVA to catch out naughty recruiters, résumé padders
Multiple Object Versionless Architecture is as popular now as it was two decades ago
Devops10 Mar 2021 | 51
Name True, iCloud access false: Exceptional problem locks online storage account, stumps Apple customer service
You're naming yourself wrong?
Software08 Mar 2021 | 80
Perl.com theft blamed on social engineering attack: Registrar 'convinced' to alter DNS records by miscreants
Network Solutions hasn't confirmed what happened, though
Security02 Mar 2021 | 20
Happy birthday, Python, you're 30 years old this week: Easy to learn, and the right tool at the right time
Feature Popular programming language, at the top of its game, still struggles to please everyone
Devops20 Feb 2021 | 78
Apple, Microsoft, PayPal among 35 organizations compromised by evil twin dependencies attack
Security researcher finds it's easy to confuse build systems with malicious versions of private software libraries
Devops10 Feb 2021 | 33
Foundation thrillogy: Rust programming language gets new home and million-dollar spending account
Mozilla moves Rust under a non-profit foundation
Devops08 Feb 2021 | 42
In Rust we trust: Shoring up Apache, ISRG ditches C, turns to wunderkind lang for new TLS crypto module
Elder server httpd to be revitalized with Google-funded memory-safe add-on
Devops02 Feb 2021 | 121
Perl-clutching hijackers appear to have seized control of 33-year-old programming language's .com domain
Got a few (thousand) dollars to spare?
Devops28 Jan 2021 | 60
A new take on programming trends: You know what's not a bunch of JS? Devs learning Python and Java ahead of JavaScript
O'Reilly's opinionated survey says low-code on the up and modern web dev is 'chilling'
Devops26 Jan 2021 | 27
Marmite of scripting languages PHP emits version 8.0, complete with named arguments and other goodies
Hallucinate, Desegregate, Mediate, Try not to hate: INXS of 25 years on, PHP liberates the number eight
Devops26 Nov 2020 | 74
Python swallows Java to become second-most popular programming language... according to this index
Coincidentally, Python creator Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft
Devops12 Nov 2020 | 147
Microsoft would love to hear about 'critical bugs' in .NET 5.0 ahead of the 'unified' platform's November launch
Dare ye use RC2 in production?
Devops15 Oct 2020 |
We won't leave you hanging any longer: Tool strips freeze-inducing bugs from Java bytecode while in production
Nothing like servicing an engine mid-flight, huh?
Devops13 Oct 2020 | 13
Biting the hand that feeds IT
