Programming Stories

China's Moonshot Launches Free AI Model Kimi K2 That Outperforms GPT-4 In Key Benchmarks 41
Ada Beats SQL, Perl, and Fortan for #10 Spot on Programming Language Popularity Index 109
AI Slows Down Some Experienced Software Developers, Study Finds 57
'Coding is Dead': University of Washington CS Program Rethinks Curriculum For the AI Era 120
Hugging Face Launches $299 Robot That Could Disrupt Entire Robotics Industry 69
Diffusion + Coding = DiffuCode. How Apple Released a Weirdly Interesting Coding Language Model 7
'Vibe Coder' Who Doesn't Know How to Code Keeps Winning Hackathons in San Francisco 179
How Do You Teach Computer Science in the Age of AI? 177
Microsoft Open Sources Copilot Chat for VS Code on GitHub 18
AI Coding Agents Are Already Commoditized 64
The Software Engineering 'Squeeze' 113
New NSA/CISA Report Again Urges the Use of Memory-Safe Programming Language 66
After 27 Years, Engineer Discovers How To Display Secret Photo In Power Mac ROM 12
Apple's Swift Coding Language Is Working On Android Support 44
'The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting' 128
RedMonk Ranks Top Programming Languages Over Time - and Considers Ditching Its 'Stack Overflow' Metric 40
Is 'Minecraft' a Better Way to Teach Programming in the Age of AI? 58
Anthropic Deploys Multiple Claude Agents for 'Research' Tool - Says Coding is Less Parallelizable 4
Apple Migrates Its Password Monitoring Service to Swift from Java, Gains 40% Performance Uplift 109
Python Creator Guido van Rossum Asks: Is 'Worse is Better' Still True for Programming Languages? 67
Bill Atkinson, Hypercard Creator and Original Mac Team Member, Dies at Age 74 53
Ask Slashdot: How Important Is It For Programmers to Learn Touch Typing? 191
'For Algorithms, a Little Memory Outweighs a Lot of Time' 37
Andrew Ng Says Vibe Coding is a Bad Name For a Very Real and Exhausting Job 79
Code.org Changes Mission To 'Make CS and AI a Core Part of K-12 Education' 40
Morgan Stanley Says Its AI Tool Processed 9 Million Lines of Legacy Code This Year And Saved 280,000 Developer Hours 88
AI Startups Revolutionize Coding Industry, Leading To Sky-High Valuations 39
How Stack Overflow's Reputation System Led To Its Own Downfall 103
Amid Turmoil, Stack Overflow Asks About AI, Salary, Remote Work in 15th Annual Developer Survey 10
Is the AI Job Apocalypse Already Here for Some Recent Grads? 117
Will 'Vibe Coding' Transform Programming? 116
GitHub Users Angry at the Prospect of AI-Written Issues From Copilot 47
Stack Overflow's Radical New Plan To Fight AI-Induced Death Spiral 75
At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun To Resemble Warehouse Work 207
Is AI Turning Coders Into Bystanders in Their Own Jobs? 101
Python Can Now Call Code Written in Chris Lattner's Mojo 26
Java Turns 30 100
'Rust is So Good You Can Get Paid $20K to Make It as Fast as C' 180
Ask Slashdot: Would You Consider a Low-Latency JavaScript Runtime For Your Workflow? 187
Stack Overflow Seeks Realignment 'To Support the Builders of the Future in an AI World' 58
Curl Warns GitHub About 'Malicious Unicode' Security Issue 69
Rust Creator Graydon Hoare Thanks Its Many Stakeholders - and Mozilla - on Rust's 10th Anniversary 35
OpenAI Launches Codex, an AI Coding Agent, In ChatGPT 12
Carmack: World Could Run on Older Hardware if Software Optimization Was Priority 174
Google Developing Software AI Agent 9
Over 3,200 Cursor Users Infected by Malicious Credential-Stealing npm Packages 30
'Who Needs Rust's Borrow-Checking Compiler Nanny? C++ Devs Aren't Helpless' 160
What Happens If AI Coding Keeps Improving? 135
Developer Tries Resurrecting 47-Year-Old 'Apple Pascal' (and its p-System) in Rust 50
Prompt Engineering is Quickly Going Extinct 81
Tech Leaders Launch Campaign To Make CS and AI a Graduation Requirement 125
FSF Announces Free Software Hackathon Honoring Its 40th Anniversary 6
May is 'Maintainer Month'. Open Source Initiative Joins GitHub to Celebrate Open Source Security 6
Apple, Anthropic Team Up To Build AI-Powered 'Vibe-Coding' Platform 16
Microsoft CEO Says Up To 30% of the Company's Code Was Written by AI 149
AI-Generated Code Creates Major Security Risk Through 'Package Hallucinations' 34
Canadian University Cancels Coding Competition Over Suspected AI Cheating 40
Devs Sound Alarm After Microsoft Subtracts C/C++ Extension From VS Code Forks 42
AI Tackles Aging COBOL Systems as Legacy Code Expertise Dwindles 76
OpenAI Debuts Codex CLI, an Open Source Coding Tool For Terminals 9
Figma Sent a Cease-and-Desist Letter To Lovable Over the Term 'Dev Mode' 73
You Should Still Learn To Code, Says GitHub CEO 45
Torvalds Celebrates Git's 20th Anniversary. Is It More Famous Than Linux? 114
AI Models Still Struggle To Debug Software, Microsoft Study Shows 43
95% of Code Will Be AI-Generated Within Five Years, Microsoft CTO Says 130
'There is No Vibe Engineering' 121
'No Longer Think You Should Learn To Code,' Says CEO of AI Coding Startup 108
Copilot Can't Beat a 2013 'TouchDevelop' Code Generation Demo for Windows Phone 18
How Rust Finally Got a Specification - Thanks to a Consultancy's Open-Source Donation 16
Microsoft Announces 'Hyperlight Wasm': Speedy VM-Based Security at Scale with a WebAssembly Runtime 18
DOGE To Rewrite SSA Codebase In 'Months' 338
OpenAI CEO Altman Says AI Will Lead To Fewer Software Engineers 163
How AI Coding Assistants Could Be Compromised Via Rules File 31
US Programming Jobs Plunge 27.5% in Two Years 104
'Vibe Coding' is Letting 10 Engineers Do the Work of a Team of 50 To 100, Says YC CEO 159
Sobering Revenue Stats of 70K Mobile Apps Show Why Devs Beg For Subscriptions 50
Why Microsoft's Developers are Porting TypeScript to Go 49
JPMorgan Engineers' Efficiency Jumps as Much as 20% From Using Coding Assistant 32
AI Coding Assistant Refuses To Write Code, Tells User To Learn Programming Instead 96
IBM CEO Doesn't Think AI Will Replace Programmers Anytime Soon 58
Developer Convicted For 'Kill Switch' Code Activated Upon His Termination 88
Adafruit Successfully Automates Arduino Development Using 'Claude Code' LLM 22
Can TrapC Fix C and C++ Memory Safety Issues? 99
27-Year-Old EXE Became Python In Minutes. Is AI-Assisted Reverse Engineering Next? 150
Google Calls for Measurable Memory-Safety Standards for Software 44
The Reality of Long-Term Software Maintenance 46
ExpressVPN Gets Faster and More Secure, Thanks To Rust 55
Google Makes Gemini Code Assist Free 39
Anthropic Launches the World's First 'Hybrid Reasoning' AI Model 18
Greg Kroah-Hartman Supports Rust in the Kernel 82
Rust Developer Survey Finds Increasing Usage, Especially on Linux 26
Torvalds: Rust Kernel Code Isn't Forced In Over Maintainers' Objections 137
AI Is Prompting an Evolution, Not Extinction, for Coders 73
Software Engineering Job Openings Hit Five-Year Low 61
AI Can Write Code But Lacks Engineer's Instinct, OpenAI Study Finds 76
'New Junior Developers Can't Actually Code' 220
Are Fast Programming Languages Gaining in Popularity? 163
This Was CS50: Crying Poor, Yale To Stop Offering Harvard's Famed CS50 Course 50
What Do Linux Kernel Developers Think of Rust? 42
C++ on Steroids: Bjarne Stroustrup Presents Guideline-Enforcing 'Profiles' For Resource and Type Safety 71
NetChoice Sues To Block Maryland's Kids Code, Saying It Violates the First Amendment 27
Should We Sing the Praises of Agile, or Bury It? 235
Slashdot Asks: Do You Remember Your High School's 'Computer Room'? 192
New Michigan Law Requires High Schools to Offer CS Classes 66
Node.js 'Type Stripping' for TypeScript Now Enabled by Default 63
Google Reports Halving Code Migration Time With AI Help 12
AI Slashes Google's Code Migration Time By Half 74
Replit CEO on AI Breakthroughs: 'We Don't Care About Professional Coders Anymore' 168
Oracle Won't Withdraw 'JavaScript' Trademark, Says Deno. Legal Skirmish Continues 68
Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way to Transfer Legacy PHP Code to a Modern Framework? 112
StackOverflow Usage Plummets as AI Chatbots Rise 66
Should First-Year Programming Students Be Taught With Python and Java? 175
New System Auto-Converts C To Memory-Safe Rust, But There's a Catch 75
Over 3.1 Million Fake 'Stars' on GitHub Projects Used To Boost Rankings 23
'International Obfuscated C Code Contest' Will Relaunch, Celebrating 40th Anniversary 23
Bret Taylor Urges Rethink of Software Development as AI Reshapes Industry 111
Microsoft Integrates a Free Version of Its 'Copilot' Coding AI Into GitHub, VS Code 32
Amazon Says Developers Spend 'Just One Hour Per Day' on Actual Coding 152
Google's New Jules AI Agent Will Help Developers Fix Buggy Code 19
Open Source Maintainers Are Drowning in Junk Bug Reports Written By AI 91
Thanks to AI, the Hottest New Programming Language is... English 115
The 2024 'Advent Calendars' Offering Programming Language Tips, Space Photos, and Memories 2
Amazon Offers $100M in Cloud-Computing Credits for Education Projects Like 'AI Teaching Assistant' 15
Mozilla Announces 'JavaScriptmas' - Daily Coding Challenges with a Chance at Prizes 18
The Rust Foundation's Plan to Grow the Pool of Well-Trained Rust Developers 65
Meta Using OpenAI's GPT-4 in Internal Coding Tool Despite Llama Push 11
2024's Geek 'Advent Calendar's Offer Challenges - and a Magnus Carlsen-Signed Chessboard 9
Greg Kroah-Hartman Sees 'Tipping Point' for Rust Drivers in Linux Kernel 42
CJIT - C, Just In Time! 28
'Hour of Code' Cartoon Includes a Shout-Out to AI 23
Stanford Research Reveals 9.5% of Software Engineers 'Do Virtually Nothing' 237
Pokemon Fan Learns To Code In Order To Archive TCG 25
Tech Job Slump Hits Coding Bootcamp Graduates as AI Reshapes Industry 32
Coding Boot Gamp Graduates Find Tough Prospects In an AI-Powered World 104
MacFORTH Code for 1984 Robot-Coding Game 'ChipWits' from 1984 is Now Open Source 10
Verify the Rust's Standard Library's 7,500 Unsafe Functions - and Win 'Financial Rewards' 85
Does GitHub Copilot Improve Code Quality? 76
Is the 'Hour of Code' the New 30-Minute Saturday Morning Cartoon Commercial? 20
Thomas E. Kurtz, Co-Inventor of BASIC, Dies At 96 77
The Rust Foundation Wants to Improve Rust and C++ Interoperability 17
On 15th Anniversary, Go Programming Languages Rises in Popularity 40
What Happened After Google Retrofitted Memory Safety Onto Its C++ Codebase? 140
Ask Slashdot: Have AI Coding Tools Killed the Joy of Programming? 143
OpenMP 6.0 Released 11
The Ultimate in Debugging 42
Will We Care About Frameworks in the Future? 67
Google Research Chief Says Learning To Code 'as Important as Ever' 58
The Team Behind GitHub's 'Atom' IDE Build a Cross-Platform, AI-Optional 'Zed Editor' 29
Rust Foundation Shares Draft of New, Simpler Trademark Policy 13
Interview with Programmer Steve Yegge On the Future of AI Coding 73
'Just Have AI Build an App For That' 75
FFmpeg Devs Boast of Up To 94x Performance Boost After Implementing Handwritten AVX-512 Assembly Code 135
Python Overtakes JavaScript on GitHub, Annual Survey Finds 97
Is AI-Driven 0-Day Detection Here? 25
GitHub Copilot Moves Beyond OpenAI Models To Support Claude 3.5, Gemini 9
More Than a Quarter of New Code At Google Is Generated By AI 92
Code.org Taps No-Code Tableau To Make the Case For K-12 Programming Courses 62
An Alternative to Rewriting Memory-Unsafe Code in Rust: the 'Safe C++ Extensions' Proposal 105
C Drops, Java (and Rust) Climb in Popularity - as Coders Seek Easy, Secure Languages 108
'Running Clang in the Browser Using WebAssembly' 56
80% of Software Engineers Must Upskill For AI Era By 2027, Gartner Warns 108
Are AI Coding Assistants Really Saving Developers Time? 142
Can AI Developers Be Held Liable for Negligence? 123
'Compile and Run C in JavaScript', Promises Bun 54
CISA Boss: Makers of Insecure Software Are the Real Cyber Villains 120
The Rust Foundation is Reviewing and Improving Rust's Security 22
JavaScript, Python, Java: Redmonk's Programming Language Ranking Sees Lack of Change 30
Two Android Engineers Explain How They Extended Rust In Android's Firmware 62
MIT CS Professor Tests AI's Impact on Educating Programmers 84
GitHub Actions Typosquatting: a High-Impact Supply Chain Attack-in-Waiting? 4
Python, JavaScript, Java: ZDNet Calculates The Most Popular Programming Languages 39
VS Code Fork 'Cursor' - the ChatGPT of Coding? 69
Amazon and AWS Developers May Not Want To Invite Their CEOs To Java Code Reviews 47
Amazon CEO: AI-Assisted Code Transformation Saved Us 4,500 Years of Developer Work 130
Linux Creator Torvalds Says Rust Adoption in Kernel Lags Expectations 69
'GitHub Actions' Artifacts Leak Tokens, Expose Cloud Services and Repositories 19
'AI-Powered Remediation': GitHub Now Offers 'Copilot Autofix' Suggestions for Code Vulnerabilities 18
GitHub Promises 'Additional Guardrails' After Wednesday's Update Triggers Short Outage 12
'The Best, Worst Codebase' 29
Research AI Model Unexpectedly Modified Its Own Code To Extend Runtime 53
Agile is Killing Software Innovation, Says Moxie Marlinspike 184
DARPA Wants to Automatically Transpile C Code Into Rust - Using AI 236
Coders Don't Fear AI, Reports Stack Overflow's Massive 2024 Survey 134
Go Tech Lead Russ Cox Steps Down to Focus on AI-Powered Open-Source Contributor Bot 12
AWS Quietly Scales Back Some DevOps Services 50
Is Modern Software Development Mostly 'Junky Overhead'? 117
A Hacker 'Ghost' Network Is Quietly Spreading Malware on GitHub 16
'GitHub Is Starting To Feel Like Legacy Software' 82
Should Kids Still Learn to Code in the Age of AI? 170
The Rise and Fall of Software Developer Jobs 64
GitLab Explores Sale 22
Rust Leaps Forward on Language Popularity Index 59
'How Good Is ChatGPT at Coding, Really?' 135
Eclipse Foundation Releases Open-Source Theia IDE - Compatible with VS Code Extensions 25
Caching Is Key, and SIEVE Is Better Than LRU 24
Michigan Lawmakers Advance Bill Requiring All Public High Schools To At Least Offer CS 70
Is C++ More Popular Than C? 142
Rust's Foundation Announces a New 'Safety-Critical Rust Consortium' 26
The Verge's David Pierce Reports On the Excel World Championship From Vegas 29
Louisiana Becomes 10th US State to Make CS a High School Graduation Requirement 89
Rust Growing Fastest, But JavaScript Reigns Supreme 55
Mistral Releases Codestral, Its First Generative AI Model For Code 27
Mojo, Bend, and the Rise of AI-First Programming Languages 26
Rust Foundation Reports 20% of Rust Crates Use 'Unsafe' Keyword 92
VBScript's 'Deprecation' Confirmed by Microsoft - and Eventual Removal from Windows 88
AI Software Engineers Make $100,000 More Than Their Colleagues 43
RISC-V Now Supports Rust In the Linux Kernel 31
FORTRAN and COBOL Re-enter TIOBE's Ranking of Programming Language Popularity 93
Apple Geofences Third-Party Browser Engine Work for EU Devices 81
Stack Overflow is Feeding Programmers' Answers To AI, Whether They Like It or Not 90
OpenAI and Stack Overflow Partner To Bring More Technical Knowledge Into ChatGPT 18
The BASIC Programming Language Turns 60 107
Red Hat Upgrades Its Pipeline-Securing (and Verification-Automating) Tools 11
'Women Who Code' Shuts Down Unexpectedly 107
Is PHP Declining In Popularity? 94
Amazon To Stop Paying Developers To Create Apps For Alexa 28
AI's Impact on CS Education Likened to Calculator's Impact on Math Education 102
Rust Developers at Google Twice as Productive as C++ Teams 121
Core PostgreSQL Developer Dies In Airplane Crash 30
GitHub Introduces AI-Powered Tool That Suggests Ways It Can Auto-Fix Your Code 24
Ask Slashdot: DuckDB Queries JSON with SQL. But Will AI Change Code Syntax? 12
C++ Creator Rebuts White House Warning 258
Free/Libre 'GnuCOBOL' Compiler Reaches Maturity, Can Compete with Proprietary Offerings 49
Code.org Tells Court Zuckerberg-Backed Byju's Undermines Mission To Teach Kids CS 14
Gold-Medalist Coders Build an AI That Can Do Their Job for Them 27
The Apple IIgs: On a Machine This Slow, You Had To Get Weird 69
Feds To Offer New Support To Open-Source Developers 12
'AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead' 68
'Communications of the ACM' Is Now Open Access 25
Rust Survey Finds Linux and VS Code Users, More WebAssembly Targeting 40
Stack Overflow To Charge LLM Developers For Access To Its Coding Content 32
Avoiding Common Pitfalls When First Contributing To Open Source 20
'Paying People To Work on Open Source is Good Actually' 40
White House Urges Devs To Switch To Memory-Safe Programming Languages 228
Nvidia CEO Says Kids Shouldn't Learn To Code 165
Julia v1.10 Improves Performance, and Gnuplot Gets Pie Charts 14
'Can a Programming Language Implement Time Travel?' 89
Tech Job Interviews Are Out of Control 163
The Linux Kernel Prepares For Rust 1.77 Upgrade 49
How Rust Improves the Security of Its Ecosystem 45
Is the Go Programming Language Surging in Popularity? 90
Nginx Core Developer Quits Project, Says He No Longer Sees Nginx as 'Free and Open Source Project For the Public Good' 53
California Bill Would Require Computer Science For High School Graduation 202
To Help Rust/C++ Interoperability, Google Gives Rust Foundation $1M 61
Microsoft Relents, Will Support VS Code On Ubuntu 18.04 For One More Year 47
Apple Releases Pkl, a Configuration-as-Code Language 73
How a Microsoft Update Broke VS Code Editor on Ubuntu 149
Microsoft Seeks Rust Developers To Rewrite Core C# Code 77
New GitHub Copilot Research Finds 'Downward Pressure On Code Quality' 33
ChatGPT-Powered 'Scalene' Offers Efficiency Suggestions for Python Programmers 36

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