Programming Stories for 2019

Mazda3 Bug Activates Emergency Brake System For No Reason 55
The State of JavaScript 2019 150
Many of Kubernetes 2,000 TODO Comments Appear to Be Forgotten 49
State of Apple's Catalyst 16
WebAssembly Becomes W3C Standard, Reaches 1.0 78
Tony Brooker, Pioneer of Computer Programming, Dies At 94 26
WireGuard VPN Is On Its Way To Linux 48
81-Year-Old Donald Knuth Releases New TAOCP Book, Ready to Write Hexadecimal Reward Checks 39
Are You Ready for the End of Python 2? 130
The Most Copied StackOverflow Java Code Snippet Contains a Bug 71
The Rise and Fall of the PlayStation Supercomputers 50
Amazon Introduces Fraud Detector and CodeGuru 19
Microsoft is Creating a New Rust-Based Programming Language For Secure Coding 69
Guido van Rossum Explains How Python Makes Thinking in Code Easier 297
What Tech Skills Do Employers Want? SQL, Java, Python, and AWS 121
Facebook Teams With Microsoft On Visual Studio Code's Remote Extensions 38
Apple's Hour of Code Plans Include 'Coding Labs' For 3-Year-Olds 65
Inside Apple's iPhone Software Shakeup After Buggy iOS 13 Debut 55
Amazon and Code.org Tap Lil Nas X and Katy Perry To Teach Children To Code 80
Supreme Court Will Hear Long-Running Google and Oracle Copyright Lawsuit 60
GitHub Faces More Resignations In Light of ICE Contract 226
GitHub Places Open-Source Code In Arctic Cave For Safekeeping 50
Python Finally Overtakes Java on GitHub 61
GitLab Director Resigns, Says It's Engaging In 'Retaliatory Behavior' 44
Microsoft's Rust Experiments Are Going Well, But Some Features Are Missing 33
Microsoft Launches Public Previews of Visual Studio Online and Power Virtual Agents 43
Apple Now Rejects Electron Apps from Mac App Store 124
Python Creator Guido van Rossum Retires, Heads To Python Conference 41
Python Adopts a 12-month Release Cycle 38
Complaints Mounting About iOS 13.2 Being 'More Aggressive at Killing Background Apps and Tasks' 52
Ask Slashdot: How Was the Quality of Your Academic Tech Education? 96
Apple, Your Developer Documentation Is Garbage 95
Study Identifies the 'Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want' 118
The Iranian Developer Deadlock: Stuck Between Censorship and US Sanctions 52
Why iOS 13 and Catalina Are So Buggy 72
'Codes of Conduct: Speech Bans Are Poor Strategy' 256
School Field Trips: Amazon Warehouses Are the New Smithsonian 24
GitLab Won't Exclude Customers On Moral Grounds, Says That Employees Should Not Discuss Politics At Work 175
Hacking 20 High-Profile Dev Accounts Could Compromise Half of the NPM Ecosystem 17
A Code Glitch May Have Caused Errors In More Than 100 Published Studies 20
Can A New TED-Ed Video Series Teach Students To 'Think Like A Coder'? 94
Larry Wall Approves Re-Naming Perl 6 To Raku 100
Internal Email Shows GitHub Plans To Renew ICE Contract 76
Apple's Merged iPad, Mac Apps Leave Developers Uneasy, Users Paying Twice 38
US Dept of Education Has Big Payday For K-12 CS, Including Tech-Backed Code.org 47
Microsoft Launches Free Python Programming Video Series On YouTube 63
Digital Ocean's 6th Annual 'Hacktoberfest' Celebrates Open Source and Environmental Projects 7
Do We Need To Rethink What Free Software Is? 136
Does The Military Need Agile Programming? 141
Researchers Find Mystery Hidden In Early 80's Atari Game 169
Do Coders Crave a Sense of Control? 103
Npm CEO Bryan Bogensberger Exits After Eight Months of Turmoil 26
Traders Who Can't Code May Become Extinct, Goldman's Tech Pioneer Warns 33
Programmers Complain that Huawei's Ark Compiler is 'Not Even Half-Finished' 42
The Internet Relies on People Working for Free 89
Google Unveils Code Completion Powered by Machine Learning in Dart SDK 20
Microsoft Redesigns To Do App To Make it Look More Like its Wunderlist Predecessor 11
How Apple Stacked the App Store With Its Own Products 52
COBOL Turns 60. Why It Will Outlive Us All 163
Apple Has Copied Some of the Most Popular Apps in the App Store For its iPhone 94
Apple Change Causes Scramble Among Private Messaging App Makers 40
Don't Get Locked Up Into Avoiding Lock-in 63
An Alternative for 'Less Relevant' Agile: the Studio Model 92
Should the Linux Kernel Accept Drivers Written In Rust? 169
Intel Engineer Launches Working Group To Bring Rust 'Full Parity With C' 111
NPM Bans Terminal Ads 25
'Agile Programming is Not Dead, Quite the Opposite' 216
Standard, a Javascript Style Guide Library With 3M Downloads Per Month, Now Showing Ads When Installed Via NPM 82
Is Agile Becoming Less and Less Relevant? 235
For Young Female Coders, Internship Interviews Can Be Toxic 242
Google Launches Android Studio 3.5 With Improved Memory Settings, Build Speed, and Apply Changes 15
Bitbucket Dropping Support For Mercurial 42
Developers Accuse Apple of Anti-Competitive Behavior With Its Privacy Changes in iOS 13 77
PayPal Builds 'Zoid' JavaScript Library To 'Make IFrames Cool Again' 85
Stack Overflow Touts New Programming Solutions Tool That Mines Crowd Knowledge 40
How Should Schools Grade Unexpected-But-Correct Answers On Coding Tests? 177
YouTube To Allow Everyone To Watch YouTube Originals For Free 57
Dropbox Engineer Explains Why the Company Stopped Sharing Code Between iOS and Android And Started Using Native Languages on Each Platform 63
Guido van Rossum Looks at Python's Past, Present, and Future 89
C++20 Is Feature Complete 231
'5 Programming Languages That Are Probably Doomed' 390
On the Benefits of Speedy Software, and How It Affects User Perception of Engineering Quality and Overall Usability 140
GitHub Confirms it Has Blocked Developers in Iran, Syria and Crimea 100
New AI-Assisted Coding Tool Called 'Amazing' 174
Is Hiring Broken? 397
Apple Dominates App Store Search Results, Thwarting Competitors 44
Is Object-Oriented Programming a Trillion Dollar Disaster? 782
GitLab Survey Finds Positive Results For Both DevOps and Working Remotely 34
Go Abandons try() Function Proposal, Citing 'Overwhelming' Community Response 124
Is There Tension Between Developers and Security Professionals? 146
Python 3.8 Will Finally Include the Walrus Operator 151
To Foil Hackers, 'Morpheus' Chip Can Change Its Code In the Blink of An Eye 80
Microsoft To Explore Using Rust 146
Justice John Paul Stevens, Dead At 99, Promoted the Internet Revolution 90
Developer Requests Google Remove Their Logo From Re-Designed Golang Page 113
Cloudflare Comes Clean On Crashing a Chunk of the Web Earlier This Month 111
Amazon Pledges $700 Million To Teach Its Workers to Code 144
Google Unveils 'Code With Google,' Awards $1 Million To CS Teachers Group 51
Bitcoin Mining On an Apollo Guidance Computer: 10.3 Seconds Per Hash 103
Mozilla is Funding a Way To Support Julia in Firefox 95
'Kerfuffle' Erupts Around Newly-Proposed try() Feature For Go Language 210
Early Soyuz Spacecraft Had a Peculiar User Interface, Says Developer Charles Simonyi 104
Ubuntu Reverses Decision, Says It Will Continue To Support 32-bit Packages 94
Remembering The ENIAC Programmers 85
The Rise and Fall of Visual Basic 217
Intel Developing 'Data Parallel C++' As Part of OneAPI Initiative 81
Prisons Are Banning Books That Teach Prisoners How To Code 193
Apple's First Four iOS Apps For Mac Are Getting an Upgrade 35
New Hampshire Unveils a Historical Highway Marker For The BASIC Programming Language 68
Python Passes C++ on TIOBE Index, Predicted To Pass C and Java 266
Ask Slashdot: Should All OSs Ship With a Programming Language Built In? 307
SwiftUI and Catalyst: Apple Executes Its Invisible Transition Strategy 44
Google Made a Video Game That Lets You Build Video Games 36
'Swift Finally Matches Objective-C in One Major Way' 131
'Apple Wants To Kill the Ad Industry. It's Forcing Developers To Help.' 221
Apple Asks Developers To Place Its Login Button Above Google and Facebook 124
BlueStacks Inside Turns Mobile Games Into 'Native PC' Games on Steam 64
Apple Debuts SwiftUI and New Xcode Interactive Development Experience 41
Apple Finally Kills iTunes 93
The iPad Finally Outgrows iOS 65
Apple Introduces Privacy-Focused 'Sign in With Apple' Button For Sites and Apps 75
Ask Slashdot: Is Dockerization a Fad? 252
Google's Go Lead: the Language Belongs To the Community 60
Apple Poised To Bring Mac and iPad Closer Than Ever 56
NSF Greenlights $1.1 Million Remake of Microsoft's 2016 'Code Trip' PBS Show 40
DIY Facial Recognition For Porn Is a Dystopian Disaster 532
Apple's Latest Defense of the App Store Just Shows How Hard It is To Compete With Apple 134
Google's Chrome Becomes Web 'Gatekeeper' and Rivals Complain 207
Chinese Developers Fear the Fallout From the Tech War Will Cost Them Access To GitHub 180
Microsoft Teams With Alphabet's X and Brilliant For Online Quantum Computing Class 39
Is Go Google's Programming Language, Not Ours? 172
'How I Cheated On My Microsoft Job Interview' 263
Replacing JavaScript: How eBay Made a Web App 50x Faster With WebAssembly 94
A Group of Independent Linux App Developers Has Asked Wider GNOME Community To 'Stop Theming' Its Apps 179
Microsoft Wants To Apply AI 'To the Entire Application Developer Lifecycle' 69
PlayStation Gamers Are Now Authoring Their Own Games With 'Dreams' For PS4 38
College Requires All CS Majors To Take An Improv Class 353
Are Trendy Developers Ignoring Tradeoffs and Over-Engineering Workplaces? 211
Google Pushes Kotlin Over Java for Android Development 117
Twitter Opens Developers Labs Program To Test New API Products 20
Software Executive Decries 'Toxic Certainty Syndrome' 217
Google Launches Portal, an HTML Tag To Replace Iframe 109
'I Don't Think a Four-Year Degree is Necessary To Be Proficient at Coding', Tim Cook Says 354
Microsoft Unveils a New Terminal for Windows 10 and Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 198
Microsoft is Bringing Visual Studio To the Browser, Unveils .NET 5 30
'Why I Prefer Go Over Python or Java' 230
'Could TypeScript replace JavaScript?' 140
A Hacker is Wiping Git Repositories and Asking For a Ransom 213
Netflix Says Python Programming Language is Behind Every Film You Stream 202
Do Complex Systems Require Higher Safety Standards From Managers and Engineers? 137
Epic Games Boss Says They'll Stop Doing Exclusives If Steam Gives Developers More Money 239
Why Modern C++ Still Isn't As Safe As Memory-Safe Languages Like Rust and Swift 463
Historic 'Summit' with the Creators of Python, Java, TypeScript, and Perl 84
'How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer' 388
Erlang Creator Joe Armstrong Has Died 60
Microsoft Debuts Bosque, a New Programming Language With No Loops, Inspired by TypeScript 261
The Source Code For All Infocom Text Adventure Classics Has Been Released 106
Ask Slashdot: What's a Good Chair For a Software Developer? 255
Mozilla To Bring Python To Browsers 111
VW Says China To Become Global Software Development Hub For Autonomous Tech 186
Overtime Complaints? China's JD.com Boss Criticizes 'Slackers' 180
The Most Loved and Most Disliked Programming Languages Revealed in Stack Overflow Survey 268
Google's Cloud Code Extends IntelliJ and Visual Studio Code To Kubernetes Apps 15
Most Popular Programming Languages: C++ Knocks Python Out of Top Three in New Study 161
Apple TV+ Includes A Muppet Who Codes 80
Microsoft and Canonical Launch Visual Studio Code Snap For Linux 61
Goldman Sachs Will Open-Source Some Of Its Trading Software 51
Lego Education's Newest Spike Prime Programmable Robots Aim For the Classroom 18
Microsoft Launches Visual Studio 2019 For Windows and Mac 93
Linux Mint 19.2 'Tina' is On the Way, But the Developers Seem Defeated and Depressed 269
LA County Is Using An Algorithm To Clear 50,000 Pot Convictions Faster 89
Continuing Progress On Babbage Analytical Engine 27
Startup Coding Bootcamp Modern Labor Says It Will Pay You $2,000 a Month For 5 Months To Learn To Code, and Take Roughly 15% of Your Salary For 2 Years Later 161
Once Again, Apple Isn't Following Its Own Advertising Rules 44
Swift 5 Released 56
Which Programming Language Has The Most Security Vulnerabilities? 330
82-Year-Old Pope Francis Is 'First Pope To Write a Line of Code' 97
Researchers Created Reprogrammable Molecular Algorithms For DNA Computers 22
TypeScript's Quiet, Steady Rise Among Programming Languages 138
Over 100,000 GitHub Repos Have Leaked API or Cryptographic Keys 52
Tesla Sues Former Employees For Allegedly Stealing Data, Autopilot Source Code 87
Coders' Primal Urge To Kill Inefficiency -- Everywhere 181
LLVM 8.0 Released With Cascade Lake Support, Better Diagnostics, More OpenMP/OpenCL 36
Researchers Create the First AI-Controlled Robotic Limb That Can Learn To Walk Without Being Programmed 39
Twitter Cracks Down on API Abuse, Will Charge B2B Developers 33
Amazon's Alexa has 80,000 Apps -- and No Runaway Hit 93
Node.js and JS Foundations Are Merging To Form OpenJS 38
CSS To Get Support For Trigonometry Functions 135
A 60 Minutes Story on Gender Equality Accidentally Proved the Persistence of Patriarchy 529
Researchers Uncover Ring of GitHub Accounts Promoting 300+ Backdoored Apps 54
Dry.io Wants To Democratize Software Development Using AI 122
Drupal 7 Will Reach End-of-Life in November of 2021 46
Bill Gates, Amazon and Google Urge Followers To Share Data On Teacher Friends 65
Lessons From Six Software Rewrite Stories 118
Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Programming Books You Wish You Had Read Earlier? 137
Experts Find Serious Problems With Switzerland's Online Voting System 63
Apple To Target Combining iPhone, iPad and Mac Apps by 2021: Report 124
Programming Interview Questions Are Too Hard and Too Short 463
Deep Learning May Need a New Programming Language That's More Flexible Than Python, Facebook's Chief AI Scientist Says 263
Google Play Store App Rejections Up 55% From Last Year, App Suspensions Up 66% 23
Researchers Use Intel SGX To Put Malware Beyond the Reach of Antivirus Software 63
Ubisoft And Mozilla Announce AI Coding Assistant Clever-Commit 40
IBM Says Watson AI Services Will Now Work on Any Cloud 16
Python Developer Survey Shows Data Analysis More Popular Than Web Development 42
Google Play Store Now Open For Progressive Web Apps 49
Homebrew 2.0 is Here With Official Support For Linux and Windows 76
Ask Slashdot: How Dead Is Java? 519
AI-Driven Python Code-Completion Tool 'Kite' Attracts $17M In Investments 87
JavaScript Overtakes Java As Most Popular Programming Language 225
Twitter Might Punish Users Who Tweet 'Learn To Code' At Laid-Off Journalists 418
Meet the Bots That Review and Write Snippets of Facebook's Code 29
Google Asks Supreme Court To Rule On When Code Can Be Copyrighted 203
Program Allows Ordinary Digital Camera To See Around Corners 54
GitHub Seeks Feedback on 'Open Source Sustainability' 87
Rust 1.32.0 Stable Release Includes New Debugging Macro, 'Quality of Life' Improvements 96
Giving Algorithms a Sense of Uncertainty Could Make Them More Ethical 74
Google's Transition To 64-Bit Apps Begins in August, 32-Bit Support To End in 2021 93
Android Studio 3.3 Now Available To Download On Stable Channel, New Version Focuses On 'Refinement and Quality' 14
You Can Now Profile Python Using Arm Forge 103
GitHub Free Users Now Get Unlimited Private Repositories 74
Eben Upton Remembers The Years Before the First Raspberry Pi 106
Ethereum Plans To Cut Its Absurd Energy Consumption By 99 Percent 136
The Old Guard of Mac Indy Apps Has Thrived For More Than 25 Years 133