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 | 69
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 | 245
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 | 155
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