Programming Stories for 2020

Basecamp Releases Hotwire for Building Web Applications Using 'HTML Over the Wire' 60
Report: PHP, C++, Java, and .NET Applications are the Most Frequently Flawed 92
2020 AP CS Scores: Still Big Gaps In Performance, Participation 103
Amazon, Amex To Fund Software Developers in New GitHub Program 11
The Geeky Advent Calendar Tradition Continues in 2020 9
Python Beats Java Again in New GitHub Annual Report 54
JavaScript Turns 25 50
Python and TypeScript Gain Popularity Among Programming Languages 50
The 'Advent of Code 2020' Event Begins 26
Greg Kroah-Hartman: 'Don't Make Users Mad' 204
Python's Steering Council Assesses the After-Guido Era 21
PHP 8.0 Brings Major (And Breaking) Changes to a 25-Year-Old Language 85
Microsoft's 'Project Latte' Aims To Bring Android Apps To Windows 10 65
Indian Coding Startup WhiteHat Jr Sues Critics 32
'Code is Sourdough' 70
Will 'Vision AI' Be The Next Frontier for Developers? 44
After Restoring YouTube-dl, GitHub Revamps Its Copyright Takedown Policy 24
The Few, the Tired, the Open Source Coders 71
Why Apple Silicon Needs an Open Source Fortran Compiler 113
What Will Happen After Python Creator Guido Van Rossum Joins Microsoft? 108
How C++ Programming Language Became the Invisible Foundation For Everything, and What's Next 107
On Apple's Piss-Poor Documentation 123
Microsoft: Make 11-Year-Olds 'Future Ready' With Minecraft Python Hour of Code 51
Should Retraining Programs for Laid-Off Retail Workers Include Computer Programming? 233
Python Overtakes Java To Become The Second-Most Popular Programming Language 103
Should Computer Programming Classes Focus on Projects Instead of 'Logic Puzzles'? 108
After 3-Year Hiatus, 'Pyston' Runtime Returns to Make Python Code Faster 27
Hackers Can Now Reverse Engineer Intel Updates Or Write Their Own Custom Firmware 21
The No-Code Generation is Arriving 154
Can We Replace YAML With an Easier Markup Language? 161
Does Python Need to Change? 233
Activists Turn Facial Recognition Tools Against the Police 78
Kite Expands Its AI Code Completions From 2 To 13 Programming Languages 19
Developer Says AWS Forked His Project and Launched It As Its Own Service 158
Computers Are Hard: Building Software With David Heinemeier Hansson 54
Netflix Is Creating a Problem By Canceling TV Shows Too Soon 170
Spaces or Tabs? Microsoft Developers Reveal Their Preferences 238
Is Python Becoming More Popular Than Java? 107
New Python 3.9 'Brings Significant Changes' To Language Features 74
Apple Made ProtonMail Add In-App Purchases, Even Though it Had Been Free For Years 56
51% of Developers Say They're Managing 100 Times More Code Than a Decade Ago 99
The World's Largest Concentrations of Java Programmers are in Asia and Germany 34
Swift System is Now Open Source and Supports Linux 21
Google Expands its Flutter Development Kit To Windows Apps 41
Developers Frustrated at Apple for Just One Day's Notice To Submit Apps Ahead of iOS 14 Release Today 31
Did You Know Today Is 'The Day of the Programmer'? 62
C++ is About To Get a Huge Update 217
Apple Loosens App Store Rules That Hurt Streaming Games, Classes 13
In China, GitHub Is a Free Speech Zone for Covid Information 28
Ten Years Ago, Epic Helped To Legitimize iOS as a Gaming Platform With a Small Demo 46
How App Developers Manipulate Your Mood To Boost Ranking? 41
China Bans Scratch, MIT's Programming Language for Kids 85
'If Everyone Hates Object-Oriented Programming, Why Is It Still So Widely Spread?' 386
Survey Finds Only 3% of Ruby on Rails Developers Use Windows 71
AWS Introduces a Rust Language-Oriented Linux for Containers 35
Slashdot Asks: Favorite YouTube Channels For Web Development and Programming? 48
Psychology Today: How Programmers Can Avoid Burnout 61
Linux Developers Continue Evaluating The Path To Adding Rust Code To The Kernel 79
Elon Musk and John Carmack Discuss Neuralink, Programming Languages on Twitter 72
To Assuage Fears of Google Domination, Istio Restructures Its Steering Committee 10
Google: Jetpack Compose Lets Android Developers Write Apps With 'Dramatically Less Code' 8
Julia Users Most Likely To Defect To Python for Data Science 32
Will Your Code Run Ten Years From Now? 219
Apple Apologizes To WordPress, Won't Force the Free App To Add Purchases After All 36
China's Ministry of IT Picks Gitee To Build 'Independent, Open-source Code Hosting Platform' for the Country As Tension With the U.S. Escalates 36
Open Source Sustainability is Really a People Problem 58
Rust is Strong, Creates a Trademark-Owning Foundation 57
'Real' Programming Is an Elitist Myth 283
Apple Threatens To Terminate Epic Games' Developer Accounts on August 28 267
What Makes Some Programming Languages the 'Most Dreaded'? 137
Google Makes Building Android Apps on Chrome OS Easier 9
Will We Someday Write Code Just By Describing It? 158
Frances E. Allen, the First Woman To Win the Turing Award, Dies At 88 19
InfoWorld Lists 'Four Powerful Features Python is Still Missing' 79
Python Overtakes Java in New Language Popularity Ranking, As Rust Reaches Top 20 91
Is It Possible to Implement Faster Binary Searches? 98
Apple Does Not Keep the 30% Commission On a Refund [Update] 60
Cloudflare Launches Workers Unbound, the Next Evolution of Its Serverless Platform 32
Python 'Dominates' IEEE Spectrum's 2020 List of Top Programming Languages 155
Is There a Sorting Algorithm Faster than Quicksort and Timsort? 130
Rare and Hardest To Crack Enigma Code Machine Sells For $437,000 46
Are Whiteboard Coding Interviews Just Testing For Social Anxiety? 196
'Will 2020 Be The Year Of Rust In The Linux Kernel?' 95
GitHub Buries Giant Open-Source Archive In An Arctic Vault 44
Enigma Code-Breaking Machine Rebuilt At Cambridge 34
TIOBE's Surprisingly Popular Programming Languages: R, Go, Perl, Scratch, Rust, and Visual Basic 6 101
Rust Programming Language To Use 'Allowlist' in Place of 'Whitelist' 249
Apple To Teach Teachers To Teach Coding For Free 96
A Moment of Clarity Regarding the Raison d'Etre for the App Store 84
Apple Releases iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and tvOS 14 To Public Beta Testers 9
Microsoft Brings Android OS Development for Surface Duo In-house With Movial Acquisition 8
Billionaire-Backed Code.org Received $1-2 Million Federal PPP Loan 50
Linus Torvalds: 'I Do No Coding Any More' 63
JPMorgan Drops Terms 'Master,' 'Slave' From Internal Tech Code and Materials 285
New Hack Runs Homebrew Code From DVD-R On Unmodified PlayStation 2 18
Oracle Celebrates 'The 25 Greatest Java Apps Ever Written' 121
How Should High Schools Teach Computer Science? 151
AWS Launches 'Amazon Honeycode', a No-Code App Building Service 43
After 19 Years, Python May Finally Get a Pattern Matching Syntax 76
CA Governor Newsom Announces COVID-19 Modeling Website, Open-Source Tools For 'Citizen Scientists' 89
Michael Hawley, Programmer, Professor and Pianist, Dies at 58 17
Perl 7 Announced As Evolving Perl 5 With Modern Defaults 86
Apple Approves Hey Email App, But the Fight's Not Over 14
David Heinemeier Hansson Explains What It Takes to Write Great Code 66
Has the Time Finally Come for Generics in Golang? 60
Stack Overflow Explores Why Developers Love TypeScript More Than Python 93
Microsoft's GitHub Offers Open-Source Developers 'One Linter to Rule Them All' 33
GitHub, Android, Python, Go: More Software Adopts Race-Neutral Terminology 413
A Spaceflight Engineer Recovers the Lost Software For Apollo 10's Lunar Module 30
Bjarne Stroustrup Releases 168-Page Paper on How C++ Thrived 101
Python Overtakes Java? JetBrains Releases 'State of Developer Ecosystem' Survey 67
New FreeBSD Code of Conduct 150
OpenZFS Removed Offensive Terminology From Its Code 504
How SpaceX Uses Linux, Chromium, C++ and Open Source Libraries 69
Stack Overflow Investigates Why Developers Love Rust So Much 83
Apple Launches Open Source Project to Let Password Management Apps Create Strong Passwords 38
Rust Enters 'Top 20' Popularity Rankings For the First Time 107
Linus Torvalds Argues Against 80-Column Line Length Coding Style, As Linux Kernel Deprecates It 296
GitHub Warns Java Developers of New Malware Poisoning NetBeans Projects 45
Developers Reveal Programming Languages They Love and Loathe, and What Pays Best 139
Altran's 'Code Defect AI' and the Rise of AI-Assisted Coding Tools 20
What Happens When Software Development Environments Move to the Cloud? 117
Jack Dorsey Tells Andrew Yang: 'AI is Coming For Programming Jobs' 211
Chromium Project Finds 70% of Its Serious Security Bugs Are Memory Safety Problems 154
Open Source Security Report Finds Library-Induced Flaws in 70% of Applications 44
Microsoft: Here's Why We Love Programming Language Rust and Kicked off Project Verona 171
Arkansas Governor Frames Programmer Who Discovered PUA Data Breach As Acting Illegally 158
Addressing 'Design Mistakes' in Node.js, Its Developers Release JS/TypeScript Runtime Deno 1.0 62
Programmer Discovers Unprotected Access to State's Jobless Claims Portal's Admin Mode 50
This AI-powered Auto-Completer is Helping Developers Write 25% Less Code 67
Massive Python Survey Reveals Popularity of Linux and PyCharm, Just 10% Still Using Python 2 53
C Is Now the Most Popular Programming Language, Claims TIOBE 246
Developers Say Google's Go is 'Most Sought After' Programming Language of 2020 93
Microsoft's GitHub Account Allegedly Hacked, 500GB Stolen 43
Beyond Emulation: the Massive Effort To Reverse-Engineer N64 Source Code 61
GitHub Codespaces Lets You Code in Your Browser Without Any Setup 63
Apple's Virtual WWDC Event To Kick Off on June 22 26
What Keeps Developers Happy? Contributing to Open Source 64
Microsoft's Visual Studio Online Code Editor is Now Visual Studio Codespaces and Gets a Price Drop 24
Why Aren't More Developers Using Rust? 341
Python 2's Core Devs Say 'Fond Farewell' While Releasing Its Final Version 97
Devs Might Be Able To Write Software On iPad, iPhone With Xcode For iOS 77
Hacking the Pandemic: Global Research Community Gathers Online Against COVID-19 11
GitHub Is Now Free For All Teams 30
Cobol Programmers Heed the Call to Support America's Overloaded Unemployment Systems 113
TIOBE Suddenly Ranks 'Scratch' as the 20th Most Popular Programming Language 57
IBM Rallies COBOL Engineers To Save Overloaded Unemployment Systems 116
New Jersey Desperately Needs COBOL Programmers 185
Unqork CEO: Anything Java Coders Can Do, No-Code Can Do 200x Faster 206
Eclipse Foundation Unveils Open Source Alternative to Microsoft's 'Visual Studio Code' IDE 67
How Devs Can Help Beat the COVID-19 Pandemic 40
Google To Resume Chrome Updates it Paused Last Week Due To COVID-19 10
Oracle Announces Java 14 54
Code.org: 'Our Team Will Teach Your Children At Home While School Is Closed' 20
Google Pauses Chrome and Chrome OS Releases Due To Coronavirus Outbreak 19
GitHub Acquires npm 34
Study Finds High Demand for Go and AR/VR Programmers, While Python Remains Favorite Language 75
Microsoft Plots the End of Visual Basic 66
Apple Moves Annual Developers Conference Online Due To Coronavirus 16
West Virginia Taps Apple To Teach Teachers To Teach Kids Swift 141
Lambda School Threatens Ex-Employee For Coming Forward About Conditions At the Coding Bootcamp 36
Split Verdict Given For CIA Programmer Charged In Massive Leak 48
FSF Plans to Launch 'Forge', a Code-Hosting/Collaboration Platform 40
The Growth of Command Line Options, 1979-Present 83
Facebook Shrinks Messenger App Size Down By 75% 84
Will The Next Job Impacted By Automation Be App Development? 149
An Update On Microsoft's 'GitHub Arctic Vault Program' 31
The 'Go' Team Releases Version 1.14 13
Facebook Cancels F8 Developer Conference Due To Coronavirus Concerns 17
Konami Code Creator Kazuhisa Hashimoto Dies At 61 16
FizzBuzz 2.0: Pragmatic Programming Questions For Software Engineers 226
Will Low-Code and No-Code Platforms Revolutionize Programming? 136
Many Businesses Still Love COBOL 195
What America's NSA Thinks of Python 74
Developer Finds USB Chargers Have as Much Processing Power as the Apollo 11 Guidance Computers 110
Why Can We Write Software To Get To the Moon, But Not To Count Votes 325
Are There Generational Differences In First Coding Languages and Learning Resources? 168
China's Mobile Giants Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo To Take on Google's Play Store 17
Google Has Paid Android Developers About Half of What Apple Has 129
Eric Raymond Stumped By Documentation's 'Reproduction' Problem 98
Programmer Moneyball: Challenging the Myth of Individual Programmer Productivity 123
Move Over, Silicon Valley: St. Louis, Atlanta, Small Cities Gaining Tech Jobs 72
Go 1.15 Planning Will Not 'Try' Error Handling 40
Apple Removed 805 Apps in China From 2018 To 2019 12
Google Will Shut Down App Maker on January 19, 2021 37
Is PHP Still a Worthwhile Language To Learn? 137
JetBrains to Reimagine IntelliJ as Text Editor, Add Machine Learning 41
Framework Developer 'Ragequits' Open Source Community, Citing Negative Comments, 'Very Few Provide Help' 122
Jira Software Gets Better Roadmaps 21
Chinese Academic Suspended After His 'Fully Independently Developed' Programming Language Found To Be Based on Python 107
Are Software Designers Ignoring The Needs of the Elderly? 205
Introducing JetBrains Mono, 'A Typeface for Developers' 73
Major Breakthrough In Quantum Computing Shows That MIP* = RE 28
'We're Approaching the Limits of Computer Power -- We Need New Programmers Now' 306
How Is Computer Programming Different Today Than 20 Years Ago? 325
Are We Teaching Engineers the Wrong Way to Think? 125
This Year's Y2K20 Bug Came Directly From 'A Lazy Fix' to the Y2K Bug 160
2019's Fastest Growing Programming Language Was C, Says TIOBE 106
Chrome OS Has Stalled Out 112
MIT's New Tool Predicts How Fast a Chip Can Run Your Code 13
Linus Torvalds Calls Blogger's Linux Scheduler Tests 'Pure Garbage' 191
Linux Kernel Developers and Commits Dropped in 2019 37
Should Coal Miners Learn To Code? 318