Programming Stories for 2018

Dev vs. Ops: The State of Accountability 92
Julia Language Co-Creators Win James H. Wilkinson Prize For Numerical Software 108
Apache NetBeans 10.0 Now Available 38
Python Gets New Governance Model 64
How Microsoft Embraced Python 163
What Student Developers Want in a Job 195
Driveway Encounter With Microsoft's President Led To $25 Million For Code.org 55
The Friendship That Made Google Huge 57
Electron and the Decline of Native Apps 328
PHP 7.3 Brings C Inlining and Speed Improvements 36
Is Visual Basic .NET More Popular Than JavaScript? 100
Rust 1.31 Released As 'Rust 2018' In Major Push For Backwards Compatibility 81
Google Bridges Android, iOS Development With Flutter 1.0 116
YouTube To Make New Originals Available For Free, Ad-Supported Viewing 63
Does Switching Jobs Make You a Worse Programmer? 227
Microsoft's TypeScript Dominates In 'State of JavaScript 2018' Report 68
That Time The Windows Kernel Fought Gamma Rays Corrupting Its Processor Cache 166
PHP 7.3 Performance Benchmarks Are Looking Good Days Ahead Of Its Release 91
GitHub's Four Most Popular Programming Languages Remain: JavaScript, Java, Python, and PHP 144
GitHub's Annual Report Reveals This Year's Top Contributor: Microsoft 67
Microsoft Store Starts Accepting Windows 10 on ARM Apps 35
The Internet Has a Huge C/C++ Problem and Developers Don't Want to Deal With It 663
Deserialization Issues Also Affect Ruby -- Not Just Java, PHP, and .NET 62
Samsung Opens Its Voice Assistant Bixby To Developers as It Pursues Alexa and Siri 41
Slashdot Asks: Are DevOps, Agile, and Lean IT the Same Thing? 226
Tiny Twitter Thumbnail Tweaked To Transport Different File Types 45
Why Jupyter is Data Scientists' Computational Notebook of Choice 58
Twelve Malicious Python Libraries Found and Removed From PyPI 36
With Few US Students Taking CS Classes, Code.org 'Scales Back' Funding For CS Education 162
Microsoft Closes Its $7.5 Billion Purchase of GitHub 87
190 Universities Launch 600 Free Online Courses 82
IBM Open Sources Mac@IBM Code 91
SQLite Adopts 'Monastic' Code of Conduct 653
GitHub's Website Remains Broken After a Data Storage System Failed Earlier Today 66
Researchers Secretly Deployed A Bot That Submitted Bug-Fixing Pull Requests 87
GitHub Launches 'Actions' -- Code That Can Be Run (and Maybe Monetized) 39
Ask Slashdot: Should Open-Source Developer Teams Hire Professional UI/UX Designers? 249
Internet Archive Launches a Commodore 64 Emulator 77
Economics Nobel Laureate Paul Romer Is a Python Programming Convert 106
Microsoft Open Sources Parts of Minecraft's Java Code 79
Microsoft Joins 5th Annual Open Source 'Hacktoberfest' 30
BlackBerry Races Ahead of Security Curve With Quantum-Resistant Solution 39
The Coders Programming Themselves Out of a Job 415
Former Students Say Steve Wozniak's $13,200 Coding Bootcamp Is 'Broken' and Sometimes Links To Wikipedia 135
Apple Watch Apps Instantly Went 64-Bit Thanks To Obscure Bitcode Option 149
Facebook is Equipping K-8 Classrooms With Robot Sets To Boost Tech Diversity 63
Eric S. Raymond Identifies A Common Programming Trap: 'Shtoopid' Problems 189
How Microsoft Rewrote Its C# Compiler in C# and Made It Open Source 85
'Best Open Source Developer Software of 2018' Chosen By InfoWorld 30
New Web Site Will Team Journalists With Programmers 51
Python is a Hit With Hackers, Report Finds 72
Do You Know Cobol? If So, There Might Be a Job for You. 335
Coding Error Sends 2019 Subaru Ascents To the Car Crusher 183
'Bombe' Replica Code-Breaking WW2 Computer Was Used To Decipher Message Scrambled By An Enigma Machine 37
LLVM 7.0 Released: Better CPU Support, AMDGPU Vega 20; Clang 7.0 Gets FMV and OpenCL C++ 76
The Linux Kernel Has Grown By 225,000 Lines of Code This Year, With Contributions From About 3,300 Developers 88
Google To Kill Its Developer Platform Fabric in Mid-2019, Pushes Developers To Firebase 16
Facebook Creates an AI-Based Tool To Automate Bug Fixes 40
Python Joins Movement To Dump 'Offensive' Master, Slave Terms 1342
Microsoft Research Touts Its 'Checked C' Extension For 'Making C Safe' 181
Python Displaces C++ In TIOBE Index Top 3 154
'State of JavaScript 2018' Survey Announced 70
Study Finds 58% of Tech Employees Feel Like Frauds 224
Creator of TempleOS, Terry Davis, Has Passed Away 174
50% of Parents in the US Believe Coding Most Beneficial Subject For Their Children, 75% Believe Big Tech Firms Should Be Involved in Helping Schools: Study 219
The State of Agile Software in 2018 315
How Linux's Kernel Developers 'Make C Less Dangerous' 509
Will Unpredictable 'Franken-Algorithms' Have Deadly Consequences and Make Programmers Obsolete? 96
Linus Torvalds No Longer Knows the Whole Linux Kernel and That's OK 119
The 'Scunthorpe Problem' Has Never Really Been Solved 382
Locals Reportedly Are Frustrated With Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars 277
Is Julia the Next Big Programming Language? MIT Thinks So, as Version 1.0 Lands 386
Half of Audited JavaScript Projects Contained a Vulnerability 62
As PHP 5.6, Still Used By a Large Number of Websites, Approaches Its End of Life Deadline, Some Worry About the Consequences 151
Java and JavaScript Remain the Top Enterprise Developer Languages For the Cloud, Survey Finds 101
Judge Guts FTC's $4 Billion Lawsuit Against DirecTV 57
Twitter's Relationship With Third-Party Apps is Messy -- But It's Not Over 26
Apple Asked Developers To Adopt Subscriptions and Hike App Prices, Report Says 276
Tesla Will Open Its Security Code To Other Car Manufacturers 143
Researchers Use Machine-Learning Techniques To De-Anonymize Coders 66
Julia 1.0 Released After a Six-Year Wait 131
Hacker Posts Snapchat Source Code To GitHub 49
Cramming Software With Thousands of Fake Bugs Could Make It More Secure, Researchers Say 179
Do Businesses Really Need to Hire CS Majors? 473
Front-End Developer Decries 'Garbage' Design Choices on 'The Bullshit Web' 409
Microsoft Announces TypeScript 3.0 70
'The Problem With Programming and How To Fix It' 560
Google-backed Kotlin Gains Adoption in Open Source Android Apps; Scientists Say It Has Improved Code Quality 86
The 2018 Top Programming Languages, According To IEEE 192
Facebook Shuts Off Access To User Data For Hundreds of Thousands of Apps 32
Big Tech Warns of 'Japan's Millennium Bug' Ahead of Akihito's Abdication 211
Microsoft Launches Open-Source Quantum Katas Project On GitHub To Teach Q# Programming 37
Ask Slashdot: Should I Ditch PHP? 341
Bing Now Provides Exact Snippets of Code for Developers' Queries 84
Is Python the Future of Programming? 300
D-Wave's Quantum Computer Successfully Models a Quantum System 60
Google Maps API Becomes 'More Difficult and Expensive' 121
Compromised JavaScript Package Caught Stealing npm Credentials 44
Python Language Founder Steps Down 241
Is C++ a 'Really Terrible Language'? 603
Ask Slashdot: Why Do Popular Websites Add New Features So Sparingly? 190
Apple's App Store Celebrates 10th Anniversary 74
One Misplaced Line of JavaScript Caused the Ticketmaster Breach 44
Linux 4.18 Preparing Many New Features While Dropping 100k+ Lines of Code 105
America's Former CTO Remembers Historic Coders 93
Eric Raymond Shares 'Code Archaeology' Tips, Urges Bug-Hunts in Ancient Code 109
Microsoft Program Manager Mistakenly Tweets Office 365 Will Be Rewritten in JavaScript 98
Most Organizations Are Not Fully Embracing DevOps 301
Four Years On, Developers Ponder The Real Purpose of Apple's Swift Programming Language 262
Should Developers Abandon Agile? 445
Survey: JavaScript is the Most-Used Language, But Java is the Most Popular 136
Company Takes Over Well-Known OSS Developer's Name Because the Domain Was Free 99
Microsoft Addresses Pressure From Developer Community, Promises To Rename GVFS 158
Apple Deprecates OpenGL and OpenCL in macOS 10.14 Mojave 269
Apple Brings iOS Apps Into Mac, But Won't Merge Platforms 46
Microsoft Acquires GitHub For $7.5B 493
Microsoft's Interest In Buying GitHub Draws Backlash From Developers 256
Programmer Creates Bee Counter Using a Raspberry Pi 60
Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub 323
A Middle-Aged Writer's Quest To Start Learning To Code For the First Time 183
The Percentage of Open Source Code in Proprietary Apps is Rising 60
Tesla Releases Some of Its Software To Comply With Open-Source Licenses 24
Fed Up With Apple's Policies, App Developers Form a 'Union' 108
Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Sophisticated Piece of Software Ever Written? 237
Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree In AI 76
Microsoft Adds Support For JavaScript Functions in Excel 171
Microsoft Hopes Money Will Entice More Developers 134
GCC 8.1 Compiler Introduces Initial C++20 Support 90
China's Bungled Drone Display Breaks World Record 67
One Of LLVM's Top Contributors Quits Development Over Code of Conduct, Outreach Program 1235
Ask Slashdot: What Should I Study? 214
Researchers Want To Turn Your Entire House Into a Co-Processor Using the Local Wi-Fi Signal 102
Stack Overflow Admits It Hasn't Been Welcoming To 'Newer Coders, Women, People of Color, and Others'; Outlines How It Plans To Change That 618
New Book Describes 'Bluffing' Programmers in Silicon Valley 292
Go Programming Language Gets A New Logo and Branding 120
Drupal Warns of New Remote-Code Bug, the Second in Four Weeks 50
GitHub Launches Bot-Powered Learning Lab for New Developers 9
New Alexa Blueprints Let Users Make Custom Skills Without Knowing Any Code 44
Survey Finds 'Agile' Competency Is Rare In Organizations 270
Ask Slashdot: How Can I Make My Own Vaporware Real? 128
Can Ruby Survive Another 25 Years? 195
Ask Slashdot: Should Coding Exams Be Given on Paper? 274
Ask Slashdot: Are 'Full Stack' Developers a Thing? 371
Apple Trains Chicago Teachers To Put Coding In More Classrooms 64
Oracle Releases Java 10, Promises Much Faster Release Schedule 134
EU Wants To Require Platforms To Filter Uploaded Content (Including Code) 110
Demand For Programmers Hits Full Boil as US Job Market Simmers 272
Developers Love Trendy New Languages, But Earn More With Functional Programming: Stack Overflow's Annual Survey 111
JavaScript Rules But Microsoft Programming Languages Are On the Rise 141
A Short Documentary About 81-Year-Old Commodore Amiga Artist, Programmer Samia Halaby 58
Ubisoft is Using AI To Catch Bugs in Games Before Devs Make Them 126
Forget Learning To Code, Bosses Value Collaboration and Communication 197
Code.org Celebrates 5th Anniversary, Success In Changing K-12 Education Policy 36
Dart 2: Google's Language Rebooted For Web and Mobile Developers 44
GitHub Drops Support for Weak Cryptographies, Adds Emojis for Labels 50
Ask Slashdot: Software To Visualize, Manage Homeowner's Association Projects? 115
The College Board Pushes To Make Computer Science a High School Graduation Requirement 132
'Nobody Cares Who Was First, and Nobody Cares Who Copied Who': Marco Arment on Defending Your App From Copies and Clones 169
Barbie Will Be Used To Teach Kids To Code 200
Who Killed The Junior Developer? 386
Learning To Program Is Getting Harder 408
Apple's Software 'Problem' and 'Fixing' It 99
Skype Can't Fix a Nasty Security Bug Without a Massive Code Rewrite 151
The Quest To Find the Longest-Serving Programmer 115
Should GitHub Allow Username Reuse? 84
Researchers Create Simulation Of a Simple Worm's Neural Network 75
Rust Creator Graydon Hoare Says Current Software Development Practices Terrify Him 353
Apple Still Aims To Allow iPad Apps To Run on Macs This Year 63
Employers Want JavaScript, But Developers Want Python, Survey Finds 222
Tim Cook: Coding Languages Were 'Too Geeky' For Students Until We Invented Swift 335
Donald Knuth Turns 80, Seeks Problem-Solvers For TAOCP 71
Has the Decades-Old Floating Point Error Problem Been Solved? 174
Apple Shuts Swift Mailing List, Migrates to Online Forum 25
'Text Bomb' Is Latest Apple Bug 60
Which JavaScript Framework is the Most Popular? 161
Stack Overflow Stats Reveal 'the Brutal Lifecycle of JavaScript Frameworks' 165
Erroneous 'Spam' Flag Affected 102 npm Packages 84
SourceForge Debuts New UI and GitHub Sync Tool 121
C Programming Language 'Has Completed a Comeback' 243
Rust 1.23.0 Released, Community Urged To Blog Ideas For 2018 Roadmap 76
'The State of JavaScript Frameworks, 2017' 114
New Year's Resolutions For Linux Admins: Automate More, Learn New Languages 139
Which Programming Languages Are Most Prone to Bugs? 247