Programming 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
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
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
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
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
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
Rust Programming Language Announces New Team to Evolve Official Coding Style 66
Intel CTO Wants Developers To Build Once, Run On Any GPU 58
Apple To Hike App Store Prices Across Europe and Some Parts of Asia Next Month 28
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
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
Report: 97% of Software Testing Pros Are Using Automation 49
Unix Legend Adding Unicode Support To AWK - Once He Figures Out Git 103
Hyundai Uses Example Keys For Encryption System 107
Five Years Later, Google is Still All-in on Kotlin 40
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
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
After Backlash, GitLab U-Turns on Deleting Dormant Projects 42
GitLab Plans To Delete Dormant Projects in Free Accounts 91
'CSS Crimes' Turn Social Media Posts Into Games 22
Protestware On the Rise: Why Developers Are Sabotaging Their Own Code 149
Can Google's New Programming Language 'Carbon' Replace C++ Better Than Rust? 185
How Python Now Manages Its Evolution 62
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
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
PyPI Is Rolling Out 2FA For Critical Projects, Giving Away 4,000 Security Keys 19
Meet Bun, a Speedy New JavaScript Runtime 121
Vim 9.0 Released 81
The Really Important Job Interview Questions Engineers Should Ask (But Don't) 185
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
Amazon Launches CodeWhisperer, a GitHub Copilot-like AI Pair Programming Tool 13
Researchers Claim Travis CI API Leaks 'Tens of Thousands' of User Tokens 7
The Collapse of Complex Software 317
Museum Restores 21 Rare Videos from Legendary 1976 Computing Conference 58
'Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming' 123
Google's Chrome Team Evaluates Retrofitting Temporal Memory Safety on C++ 49
Should IT Professionals Be Liable for Ransomware Attacks? 250
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
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
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
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
Developer Burnout Fueling Great Resignation Staff Migration 33
Can AI Be Trained to Grade CS Homework Assignments? 58
Do Developers Benefit From Fewer Choices? 108
Why C Isn't a Programming Language Any More 284
Man Creates Entire Game of Pong Inside a Single Commodore 64 Sprite 67
Complaints Mount After GitHub Launches New Algorithmic Feed 22
'Open Source Protestware Harms Open Source' 101
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
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
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
The First Developer Preview of Android 13 Has Arrived 60
Golang's Most-Downloaded Beta Ever Brings Support for Generics, Fuzzing 27
GitHub Launches New Sponsors-Only Repositories 32
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
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
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
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