Programming Stories for 2023

Code.org Sues WhiteHat Jr. For $3 Million 8
The Beauty of Finished Software 174
Quantum Computing Gets a 'Hard, Cold Reality Check' 67
30 Years of Donald Knuth's 'Christmas Lectures' Are Online - Including 2023's 29
2023's Online 'Advent Calendars' Challenge Programmers With Tips and Puzzles 8
Creator of JSON Unveils New Programming Language 'Misty' 157
Amazon, Etsy, Launch Categories With 'Gifts For Programmers' 20
Intelligence Researchers To Study Computer Code for Clues To Hackers' Identities 4
Lazarus Cyber Group Deploys DLang Malware Strains 13
40 years of Turbo Pascal: Memories of the Coding Dinosaur that Revolutionized IDEs 113
Can IBM's Watson Translate the World's 60-Year-Old Cobol Code? 120
Go Programmers Surveyed: Most Use Linux or MacOS 29
Millions of Coders Are Now Using AI Assistants. How Will That Change Software? 78
150,000 Programmers Tackle 'Advent of Code' in Event's 9th Year 16
Java Tries a New Way to Use Multithreading: Structured Concurrency 96
Rust Foundation Plans Training/Certification Program. Security Initiative Funded Through 2024 4
BBC BASIC Is Back In a Big Way 134
How Python's New Security Developer Hopes To Help All Software Supply Chains 23
Kotlin Keeps Climbing TIOBE's Programming Language Popularity Index 52
Python Community Announces Podcast, Developer's Survey, PyCharm Discount 19
Developers Can't Seem To Stop Exposing Credentials in Publicly Accessible Code 59
A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft 158
How 'Hour of Code' Will Teach Students About Issues with AI 17
Highly Invasive Backdoors Hidden in Python Obfuscation Packages, Downloaded by 2,348 Developers 50
Why Chrome Enabled WebAssembly Garbage Collection (WasmGC) By Default 56
GitHub Announces Its 'Refounding' on Copilot, Including an AI-Powered 'Copilot Chat' Assistant 33
Do Programming Certifications Still Matter? 101
79% of Developers are At Least Considering a New Job, Survey Finds 36
Pope Francis Encourages More Children To Code 45
Code.org Presses Washington To Make Computer Science a High School Graduation Requirement 95
Stack Overflow Cuts 28% Workforce as the AI Coding Boom Continues 36
'OK, So ChatGPT Just Debugged My Code. For Real' 174
C# Challenges Java in Programming Language Popularity 109
Man Trains Home Cameras To Help Repel Badgers and Foxes 77
Microsoft Says VBScript Will Be Ripped From Windows In a Future Release 79
OpenAI to Release Its Python SDK 5
States Are Calling For More K-12 CS Classes. Now They Need the Teachers. 114
7% of Python Developers Are Still Using Python 2, Annual Survey Finds 53
Can Generative AI Solve Computer Science's Greatest Unsolved Problem? 157
'Code.org In Farsi' To Bring Tech-Backed Nonprofit's K-12 CS Curricula To Iran 34
JetBrains Previews 'RustRover', a New Dedicated IDE for Rust Developers 48
Maybe ChatGPT Isn't Coming for Your Coding Job 99
IEEE Specctrum Announces Top Programming Languages of 2023: Python and SQL 102
WebAssembly 2023 Survey Finds Enthusiasm - and Some Challenges 34
Ruby on Rails Creator Removes TypeScript From Turbo Framework, Upsets Community 54
Are Scrums a Cancer? 293
Google Launches BigQuery Studio, a New Way To Work With Data 9
More Developers Are Using the Rust Programming Language, Survey Finds 117
Creators of Python, Java, TypeScript, and SmallTalk Will Make a Joint Appearance for Charity 45
Amazon's Honeycode No-Code App Builder Is No-More 36
Is 'CS In Every School' the 2024 Presidential Campaign's 'Chicken In Every Pot'? 104
72-Year-Old C++ Creator Bjarne Stroustrup Shares Life Advice 47
Meta Releases Code Llama, a Code-Generating AI Model 20
IBM Says Its Generative AI Tool Can Convert Old COBOL Code To Java 108
Can You Measure Software Developer Productivity? 157
Rust Users Push Back as Popular 'Serde' Project Ships Precompiled Binaries 17
Why DARPA Hopes To 'Distill' Old Binaries Into Readable Code 54
Stack Overflow 'Evolves', Previewing AI-Powered Answers and Chat Followups 64
ChatGPT's Odds of Getting Code Questions Correct are Worse Than a Coin Flip 119
Should a Variable's Type Come After Its Name? 321
Do Developers Tend To Scrap Or Ship Their First Drafts? 100
The Most Prolific Packager For Alpine Linux Is Stepping Away 37
Salesforce Executive Shares 'Four Ways Coders Can Fight the Climate Crisis' 79
Ask Slashdot: What Happens After Every Programmer is Using AI? 127
Is C++ Gaining in Popularity? 106
Most Outsourced Coders In India Will Be Gone In 2 Years Due To AI, Stability AI Boss Predicts 85
Wix's New Tool Can Create Entire Websites from Prompts 35
Should High Schools Require a CS Course Before Students Graduate? 151
Why Are There So Many Programming Languages? 160
Perl 5.38 Released with New Experimental Syntax for Defining Object Classes 48
34% of AP CS Students Couldn't Solve This Java-Based 2D Array Question 226
Intel's New Font For Low-Vision Developers Is Causing Design Drama For Coders 96
Is AI an Excuse for Not Learning To Code? 133
92% of Programmers Are Using AI Tools, Says GitHub Developer Survey 67
Google Home's Script Editor Is Now Live 23
Does the New 'Mojo' Programming Language Offer a Faster Superset of Python? 71
Will Productivity Gains from AI-Generated Code Be Offset by the Need to Maintain and Review It? 95
Is Self-Healing Code the Future of Software Development? 99
Intel Open Sources New 'One Mono' Font for Programmers 51
Google's Bard AI Can Now Write and Execute Code To Answer a Question 19
Apollo, Popular Reddit App, To Shut Down June 30 Following API Price Surge 59
AI System Devises First Optimizations To Sorting Code In Over a Decade 67
Reddit Will Exempt Accessibility-Focused Apps From Its Unpopular API Pricing Changes 38
NYT: It's the End of Computer Programming As We Know It 224
CS50, the World's Most Popular Online Programming Class, Turns to AI for Help 22
Stanford Golf Phenom Rose Zhang Turns Pro, Vows To 'Never Code Again' 75
AI Means Everyone Can Now Be a Programmer, Nvidia Chief Says 170
Google Colab Promises 'AI-Powered Coding, Free of Charge' 24
'Mojo May Be the Biggest Programming Language Advance In Decades' 126
Cloudflare CTO Predicts Coding AIs Will Bring More Productivity, Urges 'Data Fluidity' 40
First Rust Code Shows Up in the Windows 11 Kernel 42
'Stack Overflow is ChatGPT Casualty' 150
Google Launches an AI Coding Bot For Android Developers 16
Codon Compiler For Python Is Fast - but With Some Caveats 36
Why the Creator of Ruby on Rails Prefers Dynamic Typing 148
Swift Creator's Company Builds New Programming Language 'Mojo' - a Python Superset 82
Hugging Face and ServiceNow Release a Free Code-Generating Model 13
'sudo' and 'su' Are Being Rewritten In Rust For Memory Safety 143
AI Coding Competition Pits GPT-4 Against Bard, GitHub Co-Pilot, Bing, and Claude+ 39
Long-time Slashdot Reader Announces Open Source, Java-Based, Full-Stack Web Development Framework 81
Python's PyPI Will Sell 'Organization Accounts' to Corporate Projects to Fund Staff 14
Is It Time to Stop Saying 'Learn to Code'? 147
New Version of Rust Speeds Compilation With Less Debugging Info By Default 24
Rust Foundation Apologizes For Proposed Trademark Changes, Promises Improvement 37
ChatGPT Creates Mostly Insecure Code, But Won't Tell You Unless You Ask 80
Linux Foundation Launches New Organization To Maintain TLA+ 16
Would This OpenJDK Proposal Make Java Easier to Learn? 145
Undercutting Microsoft, Amazon Offers Free Access to Its AI Coding Assistant 'CodeWhisperer' 45
Government Cybersecurity Agencies Unite to Urge Secure Software Design Practices 38
Developer Creates 'Self-Healing' Programs That Fix Themselves Thanks To AI 137
Khan Academy Chief Says GPT-4 is Ready To Be a Tutor 58
Rust Foundation Solicits Feedback on Updated Policy for Trademarks 41
Raspberry Pi Launches Online Code Editor to Help Kids Learn 28
C Rival 'Zig' Cracks Tiobe Index Top 50, Go Remains in Top 10 167
ECMAScript 2023 Spec for JavaScript Includes New Methods for Arrays 34
Collabora Developer Explores Rust Support for the Linux Kernel's V4L2/Media Subsystem 5
Samsung Software Engineers Busted For Pasting Proprietary Code Into ChatGPT 65
A Collection of Fun Databases For Programming Exploration 13
ACM Magazine Criticizes Latest Draft of New C Standard, 'C23' 159
'One In Two New Npm Packages Is SEO Spam Right Now' 37
Apple Sets June 5 WWDC To Debut Mixed-Reality Headset 46
GitHub Slashes Its Entire Engineering Team in India 32
Amazon Opens Its Low-Bandwidth, Long-Range Sidewalk Network To Developers 27
What's New in TypeScript 5.0? 47
Ask Slashdot: Can an Aging Project Manager Return to Coding Unpopular Legacy Codebases? 123
'Docker is Deleting Open Source Organisations' 34
Microsoft's GitHub To Add OpenAI Chat Functions To Coding Tool 5
Oracle Aims To Sustain Java's 27-Year Franchise With v20 Rollout 80
'Codon' Compiles Python to Native Machine Code That's Even Faster Than C 124
Programming Pioneer Grady Booch on Functional Programming, Web3, and Conscious Machines 76
Something Pretty Right: a History of Visual Basic 124
The NPM Registry's Safe Word is Socket 17
Ethereum's Shanghai Upgrade To Enable Withdrawals Set for April 16
GitHub Starts Mandatory 2FA Rollout Early for Some Users 171
Stack Overflow Survey Finds Most-Proven Technologies: Open Source, Cloud Computing, Machine Learning 70
Go Finally Returns to Top 10 of Programming Language Popularity List 74
Meet Zig: the Modern Alternative to the C Programming Language 117
C++ 23 Language Standard Declared Feature-Complete 61
Rust Project Reveals New 'Constitution' in Wake of Crisis 81
Survey Claims Some Companies are Already Replacing Workers With ChatGPT 142
Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Podcast About Computer Science? 37
Microsoft .NET 8 Will Bolster Linux Support 51
GCC Gets a New Frontend for Rust 106
Coinbase Launches Blockchain Base To Help Developers Build dApps On-chain 32
Whatever Happened to the Ruby Programming Language? 148
CBS Explores Whether AI Will Eliminate Jobs -- Especially For Coders 159
How Rust Went From a Side Project To the World's Most-Loved Programming Language 118
Can C++ Be Safer? Bjarne Stroustrup On Ensuring Memory Safety 110
A Developer is Reimplementing GNU's Core Utilities in Rust 186
Google's Go May Add Telemetry That's On By Default 75
GitHub Claims Source Code Search Engine Is a Game Changer 39
ChatGPT Passes Google's Coding Interview, Answers Question About More Possible Layoffs 65
Back At Google Again, Cofounder Sergey Brin Just Filed His First Code Request In Years 14
Can Stack Overflow's Survey Predict Next Year's Most Loved Programming Language? 46
OpenAI Hires an Army of Contractors. Will They Make Coding Obsolete? 110
Under Microsoft, GitHub Reaches 100M-Developer Milestone 32
What Happens When ChatGPT Can Find Bugs in Computer Code? 122
Lawsuit Accusing Copilot of Abusing Open-Source Code Challenged by GitHub, Microsoft, OpenAI 60
Extensions are Easily Impersonated in Microsoft's VSCode Marketplace, Researchers Say 28
Rust Safety Is Not Superior To C++, Bjarne Stroustrup Says 220
Tech-Backed Code.org Bringing BBC Micro:bit To US K-5 Classrooms 21
JavaScript, Java, and Python are Most In-Demand Skills, Survey Finds 82
GitHub Copilot Labs Add Photoshop-Style 'Brushes' for ML-Powered Code Modifying 56
TIOBE Calculates C++, C, and Python Rose the Most in Popularity in 2022 84
Analyst Mocks the Idea That It's 'The End of Programming' Again 97