Just curious: why didn't you look to Intellij IDEA Community Edition? Open source, has many plugins, you can write them in Java or Kotlin. Even Google uses it for its own IDE (Android Studio).

TIOBE doesn't count "search queries". Instead, it counts "number of pages". So, Google shows something like "Visual Studio basics" as an answer to "Visual Basic programming", and TIOBE counts that.

It's worse than that. They don't count number of queries, they only count number of pages that are shown as a result of the query. Old languages with thousands of forum and blog postings naturally have an advantage this way, and also languages with names that also have another popular meaning. For example, Google shows not only programming links for "Dart programming", and also shows "Visual Studio basics" as a result for "Visual Basic programming".

TIOBE is a bad-bad-bad index, I don't understand why somebody still continues to use it. It shows "TypeScript" as less popular than "Dart", "Visual Basic" as more popular than "C#", etc, etc,

There are many users in Europe, Russia and Asia. US seems to be enchanted by a madness of Snapchat.

You seem the only person to actually go and read that article.

Imagine, Newell said exactly this. Only DRM sites, not web sites. How did you guess it?

Because that is a logical consequence of what you did say. If your product is sufficiently complex, then it's not perfect internally. To make a product "perfect" internally takes at least 3x time, and competitors would not sleep at that time. And you would be polishing features that maybe dropped or rewritten in the next versions. It's better to have some user input before you start polishing. Write - release - refactor - repeat. That is what works in a real world.

Do you mean "don't ever do any challenging task at all, fuck the external time constraints, reject all customer feature requests if they are too complex"? Sorry, it doesn't work that way in a real world. What one really should do is to request quiet time once in a while when one can refactor and improve her own code. That's when code masterpieces are born.

Recently I had a very similar, but mirror experience. I've written a piece of complex code. Then a new guy came, looked at my code (he needed to fix a couple of things there) and decided that it's a piece of shit that could and should be rewritten from scratch in a couple of days. He failed. It's not that my code wasn't a piece of shit (it was), but there was a reason for it: that code was responsible for a very complex task and there was a severe time constraint. Most likely you have a similar code. My advice: don't blame the author. Instead, try to understand why his code is so complex. Study it, debug it, document it. Add high level tests for all possible situations. Then try to refactor the code to make it more robust and easier to understand. Good luck!

Google threw out Eclipse to replace it with IntelliJ IDEA as a basis for its Android Studio. Why didn't author consider comparison with IDEA instead of Eclipse? Also Visual Studio is commonly used together with ReSharper, it made sense at least to mention it.

I speak Russian, English and I'm learning German. But what I've learned so far is that you don't need any human language except English to be a good programmer. Learning a second language won't improve your programming skills or your value, cause all other good programmers speak English.

On the other side, learning a second language allows you to develop your brains, improve your memory and to delay brain aging. Which language to learn depends on what time do you have and what language is easier for you to practice. If I were you, I'd learn Spanish or French because you can always travel to Mexico or Canada to practice it. Other variants: if you have little time, learn English-like language like German, it would be easier. Still more time - learn Slavic language like Russian or Czech (yes, they make a good beer in Prague, definitely worth visiting). But if you have a shitload of time, then learn completely different language like Japanese, Chinese, Finnish or Arabic.

Google doesn't suspend Gmail and Picasa when it disables Google+ profile, only Google+ and unfortunately Google Reader gets suspended. And in case of Dylan - well, just don't put anything resembling child porno in Picasa, and you'd be ok.

Am I the only one who doesn't get what is this post about? What is Arduino and why is it so important?

I don't think his managers approved his conduct. He doesn't believe in responsible disclosure, but it seems like Google as a company do. So I wouldn't be surprised if apology or termination would follow soon.

Not a chance, you can play it half asleep without a single thought, just as easy as writing or talking. I've written a relatively simple algorithm for a computer to play tetris, it enumerates all possible options of placing a piece and compares certain properties of resulting landscape (number of holes, smoothness of surface, etc). Of course it is not perfect, but it can easily outplay most human players without any problems.