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GitHub launches Innovation Graph for interactive development insights

Ryan Daws — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 16:38:05 +0000

GitHub has unveiled its Innovation Graph, an open data and insights platform for measuring and understanding the global impact of developers. The ambitious initiative aims to address a longstanding challenge faced by policymakers and researchers: the lack of reliable and comprehensive data on trends in software development. Understanding the Innovation Graph The Innovation Graph is... Read more »

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Programming language Julia makes TIOBE Index top 20 debut

Ryan Daws — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 13:51:42 +0000

Programming language Julia has secured its place in the coveted TIOBE Index top 20 for the first time. The historic achievement marks a major milestone for Julia, a programming language that has been in existence for just over a decade. Known for its applications in data science and mathematical computation, Julia’s inclusion in the top... Read more »

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State of Rust: Increasing global adoption supports positive outlook

Ryan Daws — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 14:12:06 +0000

The Rust Survey Working Group has reported impressive growth and increasing global adoption of the much-loved programming language. The ‘State of Rust’ survey has been conducted for the past six years and provides valuable insights into the community’s sentiments and preferences regarding Rust. 9,433 “Rustaceans” completed the most recent survey, an impressive 82 percent completion... Read more »

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Play Store loses over 260K apps following Google’s quality push

Ryan Daws — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 11:25:22 +0000

Android’s app ecosystem has experienced a significant decline in the number of available apps in recent years, according to data from Statista and AppBrain. Three years ago, Android users had 295 million apps to choose from. However, by the end of 2021, that number had dropped drastically to 2.7 million, and the decline continued. In... Read more »

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Crypto developers plummet 22% despite increasing prices

Ryan Daws — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 08:55:06 +0000

Despite the positive price movement in recent weeks, the software development aspect of the crypto industry is trending in the opposite direction. According to a report by venture firm Electric Capital, the number of active developers working on open-source crypto projects has declined by 22 percent over the past year. In June, there were 21,300... Read more »

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ChatGPT-generated code is often insecure

Ryan Daws — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 13:42:38 +0000

OpenAI’s large language model, ChatGPT, is capable of generating code but produces insecure code without alerting users to its inadequacies, according to research by computer scientists from the Université du Québec in Canada. The researchers asked ChatGPT to generate 21 programs in five programming languages to illustrate specific security vulnerabilities such as memory corruption, denial... Read more »

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Go re-enters TIOBE’s top 10 programming languages

Ryan Daws — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 12:32:31 +0000

Programming language Go appears to be making a resurgence as it re-enters TIOBE’s top 10 list. TIOBE creates its programming language popularity list using search data across 25 different engines. The methodology has been regularly criticised but suffices as a rough guide of the interest in each language. Go was created by Google and often... Read more »

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Developer shortage remains the top challenge two years in a row

Duncan MacRae — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 14:02:32 +0000

Even amidst recent layoffs in the tech industry, recruiting developers with the right skills remains the top challenge for 2023, according to the new Reveal survey of 2,228 software developers and IT professionals released by Infragistics. More than a third of respondents (37.5%) indicated that they will continue to have trouble finding skilled developers in 2023 with... Read more »

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The most in-demand programming languages for 2023

Ryan Daws — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 13:01:13 +0000

Coding Dojo has released its list of the most in-demand programming languages for this year. The list uses the number of open full-time jobs to determine the skills that employers are desperately looking for. Notably, the top three most in-demand languages have been shaken up. Likely driven by the demand for machine learning solutions, Python... Read more »

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Visual Studio Marketplace is the latest supply chain attack vector

Ryan Daws — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 14:14:15 +0000

Aqua Security researchers have found that hackers are using Visual Studio Marketplace to conduct supply chain attacks. In a new report, the researchers uncovered that attackers could impersonate popular VS Code extensions to trick developers into downloading malicious versions. VS Code is the most popular IDE, with around 74.48 percent of developers using it. The... Read more »

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