Developers Stories for 2021

'A Quadrillion Mainframes On Your Lap' 101
Skillsoft To Acquire Codecademy For $525 Million 6
Second Ransomware Family Exploiting Log4j Spotted In US, Europe 16
Belgian Defense Ministry Confirms Cyberattack Through Log4j Exploitation 10
Inside Ubisoft's Unprecedented 'Exodus' of Developers 36
More Than 35,000 Java Packages Impacted by Log4j Vulnerabilities, Google Says 39
Oracle To Pay More Than $30 Billion Including Debt for Cerner 29
Ruby on Rails Creator Touts 7.0 as One-Person Framework, 'The Way It Used To Be' 62
Is Wolfram the Smartest Programming Language In the Room? 113
Security Firm Blumira Discovers Major New Log4j Attack Vector 91
Apple Releases Swift Playgrounds 4 8
At EA, It Can Take a Whole Day To Change 3 Lines of Code 145
The Linux Kernel's Second Language? Rust Gets Another Step Closer 116
New Zero-Day In the Log4j Java Library Is Already Being Exploited 122
Which Developers Were Paid the Most in 2021? 118
'Advent of Code' Has Begun - and Other Geeky Daily Programming Challenges 9
JetBrains Announces 'Fleet' IDE to Compete with Microsoft's Visual Studio Code 98
Stripe is On a Hiring Spree. But It's Also Rescinding Job Offers and Angering Engineers. 102
Addressing 'Bus Factor', PHP Gets a Foundation 69
Rust's Moderation Team Resigns to Protest 'Unaccountable' Core Team 265
GitHub Fixes a Private-Package-Names Leak and Serious Authorization Bug 21
GitHub's Annual Developer Survey Finds Remote Developers Aren't Returning to the Office 28
Pentagon Asks Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle for Bids on New Cloud Contracts 14
Tea and Coffee May Be Linked To Lower Risk of Stroke and Dementia, Study Finds 62
Tech Billionaires Auctioning Twitter 'Follows' To Advance K-12 CS Education 21
Microsoft Is Very Determined That Kids Will Learn To Code Using Minecraft 56
Microsoft Makes Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 6 Generally Available 36
New Book Warns CS Mindset and VC Industry are Ignoring Competing Values 116
New Study Finds the World's Most Popular Programming Language: JavaScript 112
Is Modern Software Development Too Complex? 273
Linux Foundation Adds Software Supply Chain Security To LFX 12
Code.org and Scratch Access Yanked By Chicago Schools Due To Student Privacy Law 76
Oracle's JDK 17 - Free Again for Commercial Use 62
COBOLing Together Unemployment Insurance Benefits: How Delays in Fiscal Stabilizers Impact Aggregate Consumption 116
Indie Dev Finds That Linux Users Generate More, Better Bug Reports 58
After Open Source Community Outcry, Microsoft Reverses Controversial .NET Change 56
Visual Studio for Browsers: Microsoft Unveils 'VSCode for the Web' 56
Apple Updates App Store Guidelines To Permit Devs To Contact Customers About Other Payment Methods 8
Intel Open-sources AI-powered Tool To Spot Bugs in Code 26
About 26% of All Malicious JavaScript Threats Are Obfuscated 18
Proposed Change Could Speed Python Dramatically 97
South Korea Targets Apple Over New App Store Regulation 9
Apple Joins Blender's Development Fund To Support 3D Graphics Tool 51
Python Core Developers Release Version 3.10 -- First Major Release Since Transition from Python 2 27
Beating C and Java, Python Becomes the #1 Most Popular Programming Language, Says TIOBE 115
Oracle Appeal Over JEDI Contract Turned Away by Supreme Court 14
Java's Enhancement Proposals Pursue Virtual Threads, Data Aggregate Types, and Better Communication with C Libraries 56
Linus Torvalds On Community, Rust and Linux's Longevity 33
Developers Are Quitting To Escape From Your Bad Code 160
Oracle Loses Appeal Against $3 Billion Payment To HPE Over Withdrawal of Itanium Support 47
April Fools' Copy-Paste Button For Lazy Programmers Now Actually For Sale 83
Is Python About to Become the Most Popular Programming Language? 176
Richard Stallman Shares His Concerns About GitHub's Copilot -- and About GitHub 45
In Finland, Scientists Are Growing Coffee In a Lab 44
Online Coding School Treehouse Lays Off Most of Its Staff 55
Torvalds Merges Support for Microsoft's NTFS File System, Complains GitHub 'Creates Absolutely Useless Garbage Merges' 77
Can a Code-Writing AI Be Good News For Humans? 90
Code.org, Tech Giants Enlist Teachers To Sell Kids and Parents On 'CS Journeys' 89
McDonald's Leaks Password For Monopoly VIP Database To Winners 33
Developer Returns To Game After Four Decades, Discovers and Fixes Typo So It Works 98
GitHub Files Court Brief Criticizing 'Vague Infringement Allegations' 24
Microsoft Previews Free Visual Studio Code for the Web 33
Google Play App Store Revenue Hit $11.2 Billion in 2019, Lawsuit Says 9
40% of GitHub's Copilot's Suggestions Had Security Vulnerabilties, Study Finds 24
Apple Will Now let App Store Developers Talk To Their Customers About Buying Direct 19
Alphabet's Drones Delivered 10,000 Cups of Coffee, 1,200 Roast Chickens In the Last Year 30
Turns Out The Hardest Part of Making a Game is Everything 88
A Decade Later, .NET Developers Still Fear Being 'Silverlighted' By Microsoft 125
Secret Terrorist Watchlist With 2 Million Records Exposed Online 87
Report: Java 'Surges' Back Up in Programming Language Popularity 60
OpenAI's Codex Turns Written Language Into Computer Code 69
Microsoft is Recruiting US Teens To Be Influencers on Social Media for Its Educational Coding Platform 33
Rust is the Most Loved Language For the 6th Year in a Row in Stack Overflow Study 95
Are Python Libraries Riddled With Security Holes? 68
Free Software Foundation Will Fund Papers on Issues Around Microsoft's 'GitHub Copilot' 111
Texas Instruments' New Calculator Will Run Programs Written in Python 126
After YouTube-dl Incident, GitHub's DMCA Process Now Includes Free Legal Help 30
Software Downloaded 30,000 Times From PyPI Ransacked Developers' Machines 26
'Programming Is Hard' Considered Harmful 526
Researchers Found a Malicious NPM Package Using Chrome's Password-Recovery Tools 13
Audacity's New Owner Is In Another Fight With the Open Source Community 48
The Case Against SQL 297
New Study Verifies Safety of Rust 132
Apple's IDFA Change Has Triggered 15% To 20% Revenue Drops For iOS Developers 120
Tor Project Hopes to Replace 'Complex', 'Fragile' C Code With Rust 107
Developers Finally Moving Away from Java 8 to Java 11 61
Could Python Overtake C and Java as the Most Popular Programming Language? 170
Mixed Reactions to GitHub's AI-Powered Pair Programmer 'Copilot' 39
PlayStation Is Hard To Work With, Devs Say 42
Python Implementation Pyston Aims To Speed Up the Programming Language's Code for Web Applications 55
Microsoft and OpenAI Have a New AI Tool That Will Give Coding Suggestions To Software Developers 39
Drinking Coffee May Cut Risk of Chronic Liver Disease, Study Suggests 74
Why Google is Funding Linux Kernel Development in Rust 80
Microsoft's GitHub Releases 'Visual Studio Code' Extension Allowing Editing Without Cloning Repositories 41
Swift Playgrounds For iPadOS 15 Lets You Build Apps On the iPad, Submit Them To the App Store 28
How Steve Jobs Wrote 'the Most Important Email in the History of Business' 88
GitHub Honors Class of 2021 with 'GitHub Yearbook' and 'GitHub Graduation' Ceremony 8
Apple Has a Major Developer-Relations Problem 82
Google To Warn of Chrome Extensions From New or Untrusted Developers 13
Software Developer Community Stack Overflow Sold To Tech Giant Prosus for $1.8 Billion 106
Coalition Including Microsoft, Linux Foundation, GitHub Urge Green Software Development 136
Now Generally Available: Microsoft's Open Source Java Distribution, 'Microsoft Build of OpenJDK' 71
Freenode Apologizes as Prominent Open Source Projects Switch to Libera Chat 122
AI Could Soon Write Code Based On Ordinary Language 57
Epic Games Launches Unreal Engine 5 Early Access, Shows Massive 3D Scenes 25
Scammy iOS App Discovered That Refuses To Open Unless You Give it a Good Review 49
Oracle Debuts Its First Arm-based Cloud Instances 22
Microsoft Uses GPT-3 To Let You Code in Natural Language 37
Microsoft and Qualcomm Team Up To Create a Windows on ARM Developer PC 60
What Python Creator Guido van Rossum Thinks of Rust, Go, Julia, and TypeScript 103
How Spam Flooded the Official Python Software Package Repository PyPI 41
Computer Coding Could Count For Foreign Language Credit Under Bill 144
Microsoft Funds a Team with Guido van Rossum to Double the Speed of Python 153
Apple Confronts Critics in Letter To Congress 41
Apple Gave Zoom Access To Special API to Use iPad Camera During Split View Multitasking 85
IBM's CodeNet Dataset Can Teach AI To Translate Computer Languages 40
Game Developers Break Silence Around Salaries 89
Apple Offered Special App Store API Access To Hulu and Other Developers 12
Witcher Game Developer Quits Company Over Bullying Claims 62
Survey Confirms Popularity of JavaScript, Python, C/C++, While C# Overtakes PHP 68
Bytecode Alliance Expands as Microsoft, Google, Intel Promote Fast, Secure Development with WebAssembly 54
Rust Programming Language: We Want To Take It Into the Mainstream, Says Facebook 74
JavaScript Developers Left in the Dark After DroidScript Software Shut Down by Google Over Ad Fraud Allegations 40
Microsoft Previews 'Rust for Windows' 70
'Not Even Student Work': MyPillow CEO's Social Media Site Botches Rollout 191
Tech Giants Support Code.org's Amazon-Bankrolled Java-Based AP CS Curriculum 39
How Often Do People Actually Copy and Paste From Stack Overflow? 124
Student's First Academic Paper Solves Decades-Old Quantum Computing Problem 96
Linus Torvalds Says Rust Closer for Linux Kernel Development, Calls C++ 'A Crap Language' 270
Git.PHP.net Not Compromised in Supply Chain Attack, but User Database Leak Possible 18
Microsoft Previews Its Open Source Java Distribution, Microsoft Build of OpenJDK 145
Google Now Supports Rust for Underlying Android OS Development 28
LexisNexis To Provide Giant Database of Personal Information To ICE 64
Google Wins Oracle Copyright Fight as Top Court Overturns Ruling 155
GitHub is Investigating Crypto-mining Campaign Abusing Its Server Infrastructure 27
Node.js Rival Deno Gets Seed Capital For Full-time Deno Engineers 74
Turing Award Goes To Creators of Computer Programming Building Blocks 48
SEGA Lawyers Demand 'Immediate Suspension' of Steam Database Over Alleged Piracy 66
Apple's WWDC Stays Online-Only, Kicking Off June 7 17
PHP's Git Server Hacked To Add Backdoors To PHP Source Code 87
'Incompetent Developers' Blamed For NZ Patient Privacy Breach of COVID-19 Vaccine Booking Systems 54
On cURL's 23rd Anniversary, Creator Daniel Stenberg Celebrated With 3D-Printed 'GitHub Steel' Contribution Graph 25
Will Programming by Voice Be the Next Frontier in Software Development? 119
FreeBSD's Close Call: How Flawed Code Almost Made It Into the Kernel 60
Progress Continues On Recreating the Babbage Programmable Computer 12
Apple Says iOS Developers Have 'Multiple' Ways of Reaching Users and Are 'Far From Limited' To Using Only the App Store 98
Rust Takes 'Tentative First Step' Toward Linux Kernel 120
iOS Developer Who Drew Attention To App Store Scams is Now Suing Apple 6
Google Play Drops Commissions To 15% from 30%, Following Apple's Move Last Year 50
WeLeakInfo Leaked Customer Payment Info 14
Tinder Users Will Soon Be Able To Access a Background Check Database 69
After 20 Years, Have We Achieved the Vision of the Agile Manifesto? 205
7-Zip Developer Releases the First Official Linux Version 87
Uber and Lyft Create a Shared Database of Drivers Banned For Assault 124
iCloud Allegedly Locked Out User Whose Last Name is a Boolean Value 208
How a Malicious Actor Targeted a Go Package On GitHub 26
JavaScript- (Not Python-) Defined Neutral Networks? Deno 1.8 Supports WebGPU 51
The One-Week Hijacking of Perl.com - Explained 10
Visual Studio Code Now Runs Natively On M1 Macs 66
Flutter 2: Google's Toolkit For Developers Takes a Big Step Forward 22
Rookie Coding Mistake Prior To Gab Hack Came From Site's CTO 164
Microsoft Launches Power Fx, a New Open Source Low-Code Language 86
Do Python Developers Want Static Typing? 151
Valve Has To Provide Some Steam Sales Data To Apple, Judge Says 100
Amazon Gives Code.org $15 Million To 'Reimagine' Advanced Placement CSA 65
Why Discord Is Switching From Go To Rust 256
Node.js/Deno Creator Discusses Rust, C++, TypeScript, and Vim 87
Python Turns 30. A Steering Council Member Reflects 83
Google Launches the First Developer Preview of Android 12 34
How Oracle Sells Repression in China 97
C Passed Java to Take #1 Spot on TIOBE's Index 102
Golang Approves Generics, While Python Accepts Pattern-Matching Proposals 84
Terraria Port To Google Stadia Cancelled After Creator's Google Account Locked 166
The Rust Programming Language Finds a New Home in a Nonprofit Foundation 62
Developer Exposes Multiple Scam Apps on the App Store, Some Bringing in Millions of Dollars in Revenue 26
As VS Code Gains in Popularity, Microsoft Praises 'Inner Source' Development 169
Pakistan Forced Down Apps Made By a Persecuted Religious Minority 95
Are We Overestimating the Number of COBOL Transactions Each Day? 90
Perl.com Domain Stolen, Now Using IP Address of Past Malware Campaigns 93
With New User-Defined Functions, Microsoft Excel is Now Turing Complete 109
Facebook Looks To Take its Fight With Apple To Court 83
Pyston 2.1 Is Blowing Past Python 3 Performance 72
Ant Group Sponsors Reality Competition Show About Programmers 32
Can You Tell a Programming Language Inventor From a Serial Killer? 61
The Ethical Source Movement Launches a New Kind of Open-Source Organization 258
GitHub Reverses Takedown of Code for Anime Torrent Site Despite Film Group's DMCA 35
Brad Cox, Creator of Objective-C Programming Language, Dies At 76 48
In Hidden Message on White House Website, Biden Calls For Coders 145
Estimated Cost of Poor Software Quality in the U.S. in 2020: $2.1 Trillion 118
Python Named Programming Language of the Year by 'Somewhat Dubious' TIOBE Index 75
Wasmer 1.0 Can Run WebAssembly 'Universal Binaries' on Linux, MacOS, Windows, Android, and iOS 72
Apple's App Store Had Gross Sales Around $64 Billion Last Year and It's Growing Strongly Again 48
GitHub Secures License To Operate In Iran 26
Study Finds Brain Activity of Coders Isn't Like Language or Math 88
Are We Experiencing a Great Software Stagnation? 286