Developers Stories for 2022

AI-Powered Software Delivery Company Predicts 'The End of Programming' 150
MIT's Newest fMRI Study: 'This is Your Brain on Code' 9
Systemd's Growth Over 2022 236
Code-Generating AI Can Introduce Security Vulnerabilities, Study Finds 37
Archer Maclean, Commodore 64 Developer, Dies At 60 22
Developer Uses iOS 16 Exploit To Change System Font Without Jailbreak 22
Study Finds AI Assistants Help Developers Produce Code That's More Likely To Be Buggy 50
Stack Overflow Survey Finds More Developers Now Use Linux Than MacOS 195
Rust-GPU Project Now Supports SPIR-V Ray-tracing 17
Microsoft Spooks Windows Desktop Developers By Calling WPF a 'Community Run Project' 81
Stack Overflow Survey Finds 74% of Developers are 'Actively' Looking or 'Open to' a New Job 54
GitHub To Offer Coders Free Scanning For Leaked Keys, Tokens, and Other Secrets 4
As GitHub Retires 'Atom', Open Source 'Pulsar' Continues Its Legacy 24
IBM To Create 24-Core Power Chip So Customers Can Exploit Oracle Database License 70
Apple To Allow Outside App Stores in Overhaul Spurred by EU Laws 82
C++ Zooms Past Java in Programming Language Popularity Contest 108
Linux 6.1 Released With Initial Support for Rust-Based Kernel Development 65
Google's Dart Programming Language Soon Won't Take 'Null' For an Answer 43
AI Learns To Write Computer Code In 'Stunning' Advance 153
Apple Loosens Grip On App Store Pricing With 700 New Price Points 24
2022's Geeky 'Advent Calendars' Tempt Programmers with Coding Challenges and Tips 11
Over 50 Programmers Generate 50,000-Word Novels For 9th Annual 'Nanogenmo' Event 12
Using Rust at a Startup: A Cautionary Tale 141
Military Sim Developer Tired of Its Game Being Used To Fake War Footage 59
Cheeky New Book Identifies 26 Lines of Code That Changed the World 48
Linux Kernel Gets More Infrastructure for Rust, Increasing Interest in the Language 39
Google's Secret New Project Teaches AI To Write and Fix Code 50
AI-Assisted Coding Start-Up Kite Is Saying Farewell and Open-Sourcing Its Code 32
Survey of 26K Developers Finds Java, Python, Kotlin, and Rust Growing Rapidly 67
Should Functional Programming Be the Future of Software Development? 186
NVIDIA Security Team: 'What if We Just Stopped Using C?' 239
NSA Urges Organizations To Shift To Memory Safe Programming Languages 196
Wired Hails Rust as 'the Viral Secure Programming Language That's Taking Over Tech' 126
Stack Overflow CEO Shares Plans for Certification Programs, Opinions on No-Code Programming 52
New Features In Rust Include Generic Associated Types (GATs) After Six-Year Wait 68
Microsoft's GitHub Copilot Sued Over 'Software Piracy on an Unprecedented Scale' 97
Python is Getting Faster. How a Team at Microsoft is Helping 108
Apple's $100 Million 'Small Developer Assistance Fund' Surprises Developers With Payouts 17
An Investigation of CS Instructor Obstacles, Workarounds, and Desires 36
Computing Pioneer Who Invented the First Assembly Language Dies at Age 100 42
Developer Proposes New (and Compatible) 'Extended Flavor' of Go 55
Low-Code and No-Code Are Making Developers' Jobs Better 144
Apple Developers Are Frustrated With Gambling Ads Appearing Across the App Store 51
Apple Has New App Store Rules For NFTs, Cryptocurrency 9
Microsoft's 'Project Volterra' Becomes an Arm-powered mini PC with 32GB of RAM 68
JavaScript Still Tops Python and Java in RedMonk's Latest Rankings, While Go and TypeScript Rise 54
How GitHub Copilot Could Steer Microsoft Into a Copyright Storm 83
Linus Torvalds To Kernel Devs: Grow Up and Stop Pulling All-Nighters Just Before Deadline 93
'Ask Apple' Launches As the Company's Newest Support Series For Developers 13
Rust Programming Language Announces New Team to Evolve Official Coding Style 66
Intel CTO Wants Developers To Build Once, Run On Any GPU 58
Debian Chooses Reasonable, Common Sense Solution To Dealing With Non-Free Firmware 65
Apple's Korea Offices Raided by Antitrust Regulators Over Allegations It Charges Developers 33% Commission 11
Cloudflare Takes Aim At AWS With Promise of $1.25 Billion To Startups That Use Its Own Platform 21
Oracle Pays $23 Million To SEC To Settle Bribery Charges 17
Apple To Hike App Store Prices Across Europe and Some Parts of Asia Next Month 28
Apple Flexes Muscle as Quiet Power Behind App Group 12
Do America's Free-Speech Protections Protect Code - and Prevent Cryptocurrency Regulation? 65
Will Low-Code and No-Code Development Replace Traditional Coding? 197
Does Computer Programming Really Help Kids Learn Math? 218
'Massive' Ongoing Changes to Perl Help It Move Beyond Its Unix Roots 74
Developer Creates Delightful Programming Font Based on Minecraft 34
Google Launches Third-Party Play Store Billing Pilot, But Only Cuts Fees By 4% 16
Solana-Based DeFi Protocol OptiFi Loses $661K In Programming Blunder 33
IEEE's Top Programming Languages of 2022: Python (and SQL) 76
Will Google's 'Cross-Device' Development Kit Bring Android Apps to Non-Android Devices? 20
Heroku Announces Plans To Eliminate Free Plans, Blaming 'Fraud and Abuse' 9
World's Largest Japanese Anime Database 'Anime Taizen' Opens To the Public 23
Report: 97% of Software Testing Pros Are Using Automation 49
Devs Make Progress Getting MacOS Venture Running On Unsupported, Decade-Old Macs 20
Unix Legend Adding Unicode Support To AWK - Once He Figures Out Git 103
Hyundai Uses Example Keys For Encryption System 107
Oracle's 'Surveillance Machine' Targeted In US Privacy Class Action 27
Five Years Later, Google is Still All-in on Kotlin 40
Oracle Begins Auditing TikTok's Algorithms 32
VLC-Developer VideoLan Says India Blocking Site Endangers Its Own Citizens 23
Rust 1.63 Released, Adding Scoped Threads 27
'Unstoppable' Python Remains More Popular than C and Java 177
Mac Hacker's Code Is So Good, Corporations Keep Stealing It 35
Microsoft Claims Sony Pays Developers 'Blocking Rights' To Keep Games Off Xbox Game Pass 25
Tornado Cash Co-founder Reports Being Kicked Off GitHub as Industry Reacts To Sanctions 53
JavaScript Slows Progress, Should be Retired, Argues JSON Creator 220
'Horrible', 'Chaos': Former Oracle Employees Describe Recent Layoffs 109
After Backlash, GitLab U-Turns on Deleting Dormant Projects 42
From Software Developer To CEO: Red Hat's Matt Hicks On His Journey To the Top 17
GitLab Plans To Delete Dormant Projects in Free Accounts 91
'CSS Crimes' Turn Social Media Posts Into Games 22
Oracle Starts Job Cuts In US 41
Protestware On the Rise: Why Developers Are Sabotaging Their Own Code 149
Microsoft Asks Google, Oracle To Help Crimp Amazon's US Government Cloud Leadership 35
Can Google's New Programming Language 'Carbon' Replace C++ Better Than Rust? 185
How Python Now Manages Its Evolution 62
The Dell XPS Developer Edition Will Soon Arrive With Ubuntu Linux 22.04 31
Google, Oracle Cloud Servers Wilt in UK Heatwave, Take Down Websites 61
Google Will Let European Developers Use Their Own Billing Systems 19
GCC Rust Approved by Steering Committee, Beta Likely Next April 51
Ask Slashdot: Does WebAssembly Increase Your Web Browser's Attack Surface? 104
Top Languages for WebAssembly Development: Rust, C++, Blazor, Go - and JavaScript? 49
Google Play Hides App Permissions In Favor of Developer-Written Descriptions 33
DARPA Is Worried About How Well Open-Source Code Can Be Trusted 85
Hundreds of Tech, Business and Nonprofit Leaders Urge States To Boost CS Education 49
Game Developer On 'Why NFTs Are a Nightmare' 89
PyPI Is Rolling Out 2FA For Critical Projects, Giving Away 4,000 Security Keys 19
Meet Bun, a Speedy New JavaScript Runtime 121
Baserow Challenges Airtable With an Open Source No-Code Database Platform 19
Vim 9.0 Released 81
SQLite or PostgreSQL? It's Complicated! 101
The Really Important Job Interview Questions Engineers Should Ask (But Don't) 185
Google To Pay $90 Million To Settle Legal Fight With App Developers 12
Meta Sparks Anger By Charging For VR Apps 32
Svelte Origins: a JavaScript Documentary 48
Are Today's Programmers Leaving Too Much Code Bloat? 296
Stack Overflow Survey Finds Developers Like Rust, Python, JavaScript and Remote Work 97
AI-Powered GitHub Copilot Leaves Preview, Now Costs $100 a Year 36
Goodbye Zachtronics, Developers of Very Cool Video Games 18
Amazon Launches CodeWhisperer, a GitHub Copilot-like AI Pair Programming Tool 13
Apple Will Now Allow Developers To Transfer Ownership of Apps That Use iCloud 10
Researchers Claim Travis CI API Leaks 'Tens of Thousands' of User Tokens 7
Leaked Audio From 80 Internal TikTok Meetings Shows That US User Data Has Been Repeatedly Accessed From China 54
TikTok Moves US User Data To Oracle Servers 28
The Collapse of Complex Software 317
Is Oracle's Database Dominance Being Eroded by Cloud-First Rivals? 71
Museum Restores 21 Rare Videos from Legendary 1976 Computing Conference 58
Apple's Giving Up Ground in its App Store Fight With Dutch Regulators and Tinder 15
GitHub Sunsets Atom, Its Text Editor for Software Development 94
Python 3.11 Performance Benchmarks Are Looking Fantastic 205
'Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming' 123
MongoDB 6.0 Brings Encrypted Queries, Time-Series Data Collection 53
Apple Announces macOS 13 Ventura, the Next Major Software Update for the Mac 60
Google's Chrome Team Evaluates Retrofitting Temporal Memory Safety on C++ 49
Should IT Professionals Be Liable for Ransomware Attacks? 250
Hacker Steals Database of Hundreds of Verizon Employees 14
Microsoft Dev Box Will Virtualize Your Windows Development PC In a Browser Window 40
NASA Programmer Remembers Debugging Lisp In Deep Space 70
What Made Golang Become Popular? Its Creators Look Back 52
Developer Survey: JavaScript and Python Reign, but Rust is Rising 60
Palm OS Developer Releases Source To Classic Games, 20+ Years After Release 22
Why Gov.UK Stopped Using jQuery 88
How a Rust Supply-Chain Attack Infected Cloud CI Pipelines with Go Malware 45
HP Chooses Ubuntu-Based Pop!_OS Linux For Its Upcoming Dev One Laptop 64
Angry IT Admin Wipes Employer's Databases, Gets 7 Years In Prison 83
Is Python About to Get Faster? 134
Want to Run Python Code in a Browser? Soon You Might Be Able To 88
Security Expert Nabs Expired Domain for a Popular NPM Library's Email Address 16
DEA Investigating Breach of Law Enforcement Data Portal 31
Google Cloud Launches AlloyDB, a New Fully-Managed PostgreSQL Database Service 19
ICE 'Now Operates As a Domestic Surveillance Agency,' Think Tank Says 76
Oracle Java Popularity Sliding, Reports New Relic 95
Programmers, Managers, Agile, and Failures: Software's Long Crisis 152
Will JavaScript Containers Overtake Linux Containers? 94
GitHub Will Require All Code Contributors To Use 2FA 100
Bandcamp at Centre of Dispute Between Epic Games and Google 35
Android's App Store Privacy Section Starts Rolling Out Today 14
Is GitHub Suspending the Accounts of Russian Developers at Sanctioned Companies? 159
Richard Stallman Calls for Software Package Systems that Help Maintain Your Freedoms 92
Richard Stallman Speaks on the State of Free Software, and Answers Questions 112
Single Mom Sues Coding Boot Camp Over Job Placement Rates 128
Solaris 11.4 Free For Open-Source Devs, Non-Production Use 51
Developer Burnout Fueling Great Resignation Staff Migration 33
Chrome Web Store Will Show Badges For Reputable Developers and Extensions 26
Can AI Be Trained to Grade CS Homework Assignments? 58
Do Developers Benefit From Fewer Choices? 108
Apple, Facing Outcry, Says App Developers Are Thriving on iPhone 29
Why C Isn't a Programming Language Any More 284
Russian Game Dev Tells Players To 'Raise the Pirate Flag' To Get Around Sanctions 76
Google Slapped With French Fine Over Abusive App Store Practices 17
Warzone Dev Says Game Is Losing Players Over 'Insane' Download Sizes 92
Man Creates Entire Game of Pong Inside a Single Commodore 64 Sprite 67
Epic Isn't Satisfied by Google's App Store Billing Stunt 38
Complaints Mount After GitHub Launches New Algorithmic Feed 22
Mozilla Launches Paid Subscriptions To Its Developer Network 23
'Open Source Protestware Harms Open Source' 101
Google Play To Pilot Third-Party Billing Option Globally, Starting With Spotify 4
Can We Write Better Algorithms With Machine Learning? 19
How Do You Like Ubuntu's New Logo? 132
Linux Random Number Generator Sees Major Improvements 80
'Biggest Change Ever' to Go Brings Generics, Native Fuzzing, and a Performance Boost 35
Developers Debate Denying Updates for Open Source Software to Russia 95
Christopher Alexander, Father of Pattern Language Movement, Dies At 86 8
Famous NPM Package Deletes Files To Protest Ukraine War 114
A Ruby Developer's Life In Kharkiv, Ukraine 144
Debian Developer Demoted, Quits After Two Decades With Project 218
Computer History Museum Publishes Memories of the Programmer for NASA's Moon Missions 45
The Dangers of CS 'Philanthrocapitalism' 41
Should JavaScript Add a New Syntax for Types? 158
TikTok's National Security Saga Nears Its End 9
Niantic Buys WebAR Startup 8th Wall In 'Largest Acquisition To Date' 6
Two Python Core Developers Remain in Ukraine 72
Researchers Release 'PolyCoder', the First Open-Source Code-Generating AI Model 66
Ukranian Programmers Continue Working While Being Bombed 160
Linux Foundation's 'Census II' of Open Source Libraries Urges Support, Security, and Standardization 9
Wordle Rip-offs Are Running Rampant on the App Store Again 50
Free Software Foundation Announces Five Papers Exploring Microsoft's 'GitHub Copilot' 39
Why Swift Creator Chris Lattner Stepped Down From Its Core Team This Week 98
Programming in Rust is Fun - But Challenging, Finds Annual Community Survey 58
Code.org and Coldplay Launch Global Campaign To Inspire Kids To Code and Dance 53
Linux Developers Patch Bugs Faster Than Microsoft, Apple, and Google, Study Shows 43
Is It More Energy-Efficient to Program in Rust? 243
New Open Source-Loving Microsoft Celebrates .NET's 20th Anniversary 65
TIOBE Adjusts Programming Language Popularity Calculations. Python, C, and Java Still Popular 31
SFPD Puts Rape Victims' DNA Into Database Used To Find Criminals, DA Alleges 132
The First Developer Preview of Android 13 Has Arrived 60
Microsoft Proclaims Support for a More Open Gaming Future 41
Breach of Washington State Database May Expose Personal Info of Millions 11
Golang's Most-Downloaded Beta Ever Brings Support for Generics, Fuzzing 27
GitHub Launches New Sponsors-Only Repositories 32
Developers React To 27% Commission With Astonishment and Anger 275
DeepMind Says Its New AI Coding Engine is as Good as an Average Human Programmer 135
Python Dominates, But Developers Are Adding New Skills To Stand Out 18
8 In 10 App Developers Back Measure To Rein In Google and Apple, Poll Finds 69
O'Reilly Reports Increasing Interest in Cybersecurity, AI, Go, Rust, and C++ 33
YouTube-DL Forks to Continue Supporting Older Versions of Python 62
Ask Slashdot: Do You Test Your Web pages With Microsoft Edge? 143
Apple Finally Removing Python 2 In macOS 12.3 70
Developer Who Intentionally Corrupted His Libraries Wants NPM To Restore His Publishing Rights 251
Ask Slashdot: Do We Need Better Computer Programming Courses For Visual Learners? 159
Open Source Developers, Who Work for Free, Are Discovering They Have Power 193
Library Intentionally Corrupted by Developer Relaunches as a Community-Driven Project 61
Do CS Teachers Need To Know CS? 168
GitHub Restores Account of Developer Who Intentionally Corrupted His Libraries 193
Jack Dorsey Announces Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund 23
Wordle Copycats Have Vanished From Apple's App Store 37
App Store Developers Made About $60 Billion in 2021, Apple Says 18
Ask Slashdot: Why Do Programmers Make So Many Mistakes? 391
Open Source Developer Intentionally Corrupts His Own Widely-Used Libraries 419
TIOBE Announces that the Programming Language of the Year Was Python 90