Date / Time |
Story |
Thursday March 28, 2024 @01:00AM |
Core PostgreSQL Developer Dies In Airplane Crash |
Sunday March 24, 2024 @05:25PM |
GitHub Introduces AI-Powered Tool That Suggests Ways It Can Auto-Fix Your Code |
Saturday March 23, 2024 @01:00PM |
Ask Slashdot: DuckDB Queries JSON with SQL. But Will AI Change Code Syntax? |
Monday March 18, 2024 @09:09PM |
C++ Creator Rebuts White House Warning |
Sunday March 17, 2024 @02:10PM |
Free/Libre 'GnuCOBOL' Compiler Reaches Maturity, Can Compete with Proprietary Offerings |
Thursday March 14, 2024 @01:59PM |
Code.org Tells Court Zuckerberg-Backed Byju's Undermines Mission To Teach Kids CS |
Tuesday March 12, 2024 @03:38PM |
Gold-Medalist Coders Build an AI That Can Do Their Job for Them |
Saturday March 09, 2024 @06:30PM |
The Apple IIgs: On a Machine This Slow, You Had To Get Weird |
Thursday March 07, 2024 @02:36PM |
Feds To Offer New Support To Open-Source Developers |
Thursday March 07, 2024 @11:12AM |
'AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead' |
Sunday March 03, 2024 @02:20AM |
Rust Survey Finds Linux and VS Code Users, More WebAssembly Targeting |
Saturday March 02, 2024 @11:05PM |
'Communications of the ACM' Is Now Open Access |
Friday March 01, 2024 @03:12PM |
Stack Overflow To Charge LLM Developers For Access To Its Coding Content |
Thursday February 29, 2024 @03:46AM |
'Paying People To Work on Open Source is Good Actually' |
Thursday February 29, 2024 @03:30AM |
Avoiding Common Pitfalls When First Contributing To Open Source |
Wednesday February 28, 2024 @11:29AM |
White House Urges Devs To Switch To Memory-Safe Programming Languages |
Monday February 26, 2024 @09:23AM |
Nvidia CEO Says Kids Shouldn't Learn To Code |
Sunday February 25, 2024 @03:16PM |
Julia v1.10 Improves Performance, and Gnuplot Gets Pie Charts |
Saturday February 24, 2024 @01:21AM |
'Can a Programming Language Implement Time Travel?' |
Friday February 23, 2024 @03:16PM |
Tech Job Interviews Are Out of Control |
Sunday February 18, 2024 @01:05PM |
The Linux Kernel Prepares For Rust 1.77 Upgrade |
Saturday February 17, 2024 @08:10PM |
How Rust Improves the Security of Its Ecosystem |
Saturday February 17, 2024 @07:01PM |
Is the Go Programming Language Surging in Popularity? |
Friday February 16, 2024 @12:04PM |
Nginx Core Developer Quits Project, Says He No Longer Sees Nginx as 'Free and Open Source Project For the Public Good' |
Sunday February 11, 2024 @06:47PM |
California Bill Would Require Computer Science For High School Graduation |
Saturday February 10, 2024 @01:01AM |
Microsoft Relents, Will Support VS Code On Ubuntu 18.04 For One More Year |
Friday February 09, 2024 @05:06PM |
To Help Rust/C++ Interoperability, Google Gives Rust Foundation $1M |
Monday February 05, 2024 @03:36PM |
Apple Releases Pkl, a Configuration-as-Code Language |
Saturday February 03, 2024 @09:16PM |
How a Microsoft Update Broke VS Code Editor on Ubuntu |
Thursday February 01, 2024 @11:30AM |
Microsoft Seeks Rust Developers To Rewrite Core C# Code |
Tuesday January 30, 2024 @11:04AM |
New GitHub Copilot Research Finds 'Downward Pressure On Code Quality' |
Sunday January 28, 2024 @06:12PM |
ChatGPT-Powered 'Scalene' Offers Efficiency Suggestions for Python Programmers |
Saturday January 20, 2024 @04:18PM |
NPM Users Download 2.1B Deprecated Packages Weekly, Say Security Researchers |
Saturday January 20, 2024 @03:16AM |
Rust-Written Linux Scheduler Continues Showing Promising Results For Gaming |
Friday January 12, 2024 @12:09PM |
A 2024 Discussion Whether To Convert The Linux Kernel From C To Modern C++ |
Wednesday January 10, 2024 @06:55PM |
Brave Search Can Now Deliver Results For Programming Queries |
Saturday January 06, 2024 @07:08PM |
Can AI-Generated Proofs Bring Bug-Free Software One Step Closer? |
Thursday January 04, 2024 @06:30PM |
AI-Assisted Bug Reports Are Seriously Annoying For Developers |
Wednesday January 03, 2024 @09:26PM |
Niklaus Wirth, Inventor of Pascal, Dies At 89 |
Sunday December 31, 2023 @09:06PM |
Since the Demise of Atom, 'Pulsar' Offers an Alternative Code Editor |
Tuesday December 26, 2023 @10:57AM |
Code.org Sues WhiteHat Jr. For $3 Million |
Tuesday December 26, 2023 @06:03AM |
The Beauty of Finished Software |
Sunday December 24, 2023 @01:47PM |
Quantum Computing Gets a 'Hard, Cold Reality Check' |
Saturday December 23, 2023 @01:16AM |
30 Years of Donald Knuth's 'Christmas Lectures' Are Online - Including 2023's |
Monday December 18, 2023 @02:34AM |
Creator of JSON Unveils New Programming Language 'Misty' |
Monday December 18, 2023 @12:57AM |
2023's Online 'Advent Calendars' Challenge Programmers With Tips and Puzzles |
Saturday December 16, 2023 @02:01AM |
Amazon, Etsy, Launch Categories With 'Gifts For Programmers' |
Friday December 15, 2023 @11:31AM |
Intelligence Researchers To Study Computer Code for Clues To Hackers' Identities |
Tuesday December 12, 2023 @12:46AM |
Lazarus Cyber Group Deploys DLang Malware Strains |
Sunday December 10, 2023 @02:27AM |
Can IBM's Watson Translate the World's 60-Year-Old Cobol Code? |
Sunday December 10, 2023 @01:13AM |
40 years of Turbo Pascal: Memories of the Coding Dinosaur that Revolutionized IDEs |
Saturday December 09, 2023 @12:45AM |
Go Programmers Surveyed: Most Use Linux or MacOS |
Wednesday December 06, 2023 @12:03PM |
Millions of Coders Are Now Using AI Assistants. How Will That Change Software? |
Monday December 04, 2023 @01:40AM |
150,000 Programmers Tackle 'Advent of Code' in Event's 9th Year |
Saturday December 02, 2023 @03:19PM |
Java Tries a New Way to Use Multithreading: Structured Concurrency |
Saturday December 02, 2023 @02:55AM |
Rust Foundation Plans Training/Certification Program. Security Initiative Funded Through 2024 |
Wednesday November 29, 2023 @07:29PM |
BBC BASIC Is Back In a Big Way |
Saturday November 25, 2023 @12:55PM |
How Python's New Security Developer Hopes To Help All Software Supply Chains |
Friday November 17, 2023 @10:27PM |
Kotlin Keeps Climbing TIOBE's Programming Language Popularity Index |
Friday November 17, 2023 @09:31PM |
Python Community Announces Podcast, Developer's Survey, PyCharm Discount |
Thursday November 16, 2023 @12:39PM |
Developers Can't Seem To Stop Exposing Credentials in Publicly Accessible Code |
Wednesday November 15, 2023 @10:11AM |
A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft |
Sunday November 12, 2023 @04:12AM |
How 'Hour of Code' Will Teach Students About Issues with AI |
Sunday November 12, 2023 @12:56AM |
Why Chrome Enabled WebAssembly Garbage Collection (WasmGC) By Default |
Saturday November 11, 2023 @10:21PM |
Highly Invasive Backdoors Hidden in Python Obfuscation Packages, Downloaded by 2,348 Developers |
Saturday November 11, 2023 @09:54PM |
GitHub Announces Its 'Refounding' on Copilot, Including an AI-Powered 'Copilot Chat' Assistant |
Sunday November 05, 2023 @06:45PM |
Do Programming Certifications Still Matter? |
Thursday November 02, 2023 @05:46PM |
Ask Slashdot: Which Web Platform Would You Use? |
Thursday November 02, 2023 @05:45PM |
Ask Slashdot: Are 'Full Stack' Developers a Thing? |
Monday October 30, 2023 @01:10AM |
79% of Developers are At Least Considering a New Job, Survey Finds |
Wednesday October 25, 2023 @03:03PM |
Pope Francis Encourages More Children To Code |
Thursday October 19, 2023 @08:18PM |
Code.org Presses Washington To Make Computer Science a High School Graduation Requirement |
Monday October 16, 2023 @11:56AM |
Stack Overflow Cuts 28% Workforce as the AI Coding Boom Continues |
Sunday October 15, 2023 @02:05PM |
'OK, So ChatGPT Just Debugged My Code. For Real' |
Saturday October 14, 2023 @10:04PM |
C# Challenges Java in Programming Language Popularity |
Tuesday October 10, 2023 @07:24PM |
Man Trains Home Cameras To Help Repel Badgers and Foxes |
Tuesday October 10, 2023 @07:14PM |
Microsoft Says VBScript Will Be Ripped From Windows In a Future Release |
Sunday October 08, 2023 @12:34AM |
7% of Python Developers Are Still Using Python 2, Annual Survey Finds |
Sunday October 08, 2023 @12:14AM |
OpenAI to Release Its Python SDK |
Saturday October 07, 2023 @07:15PM |
States Are Calling For More K-12 CS Classes. Now They Need the Teachers. |
Saturday September 30, 2023 @08:02PM |
Can Generative AI Solve Computer Science's Greatest Unsolved Problem? |
Wednesday September 27, 2023 @06:25PM |
'Code.org In Farsi' To Bring Tech-Backed Nonprofit's K-12 CS Curricula To Iran |
Sunday September 17, 2023 @09:26PM |
JetBrains Previews 'RustRover', a New Dedicated IDE for Rust Developers |
Sunday September 17, 2023 @07:51PM |
Maybe ChatGPT Isn't Coming for Your Coding Job |
Sunday September 10, 2023 @10:03PM |
IEEE Specctrum Announces Top Programming Languages of 2023: Python and SQL |
Sunday September 10, 2023 @02:53AM |
WebAssembly 2023 Survey Finds Enthusiasm - and Some Challenges |
Thursday September 07, 2023 @04:26PM |
Ruby on Rails Creator Removes TypeScript From Turbo Framework, Upsets Community |
Saturday September 02, 2023 @01:53PM |
Are Scrums a Cancer? |
Tuesday August 29, 2023 @05:18PM |
Google Launches BigQuery Studio, a New Way To Work With Data |
Sunday August 27, 2023 @11:19PM |
More Developers Are Using the Rust Programming Language, Survey Finds |
Sunday August 27, 2023 @01:37PM |
Creators of Python, Java, TypeScript, and SmallTalk Will Make a Joint Appearance for Charity |
Saturday August 26, 2023 @02:25PM |
Amazon's Honeycode No-Code App Builder Is No-More |
Saturday August 26, 2023 @01:45PM |
Is 'CS In Every School' the 2024 Presidential Campaign's 'Chicken In Every Pot'? |
Friday August 25, 2023 @10:09PM |
72-Year-Old C++ Creator Bjarne Stroustrup Shares Life Advice |
Thursday August 24, 2023 @11:22AM |
Meta Releases Code Llama, a Code-Generating AI Model |
Tuesday August 22, 2023 @04:37PM |
IBM Says Its Generative AI Tool Can Convert Old COBOL Code To Java |
Saturday August 19, 2023 @04:37PM |
Can You Measure Software Developer Productivity? |
Saturday August 19, 2023 @01:06PM |
Rust Users Push Back as Popular 'Serde' Project Ships Precompiled Binaries |
Friday August 18, 2023 @09:50PM |
Why DARPA Hopes To 'Distill' Old Binaries Into Readable Code |
Sunday August 13, 2023 @08:23PM |
Stack Overflow 'Evolves', Previewing AI-Powered Answers and Chat Followups |
Friday August 11, 2023 @11:34PM |
ChatGPT's Odds of Getting Code Questions Correct are Worse Than a Coin Flip |
Sunday August 06, 2023 @09:36PM |
Should a Variable's Type Come After Its Name? |
Saturday August 05, 2023 @01:02PM |
Do Developers Tend To Scrap Or Ship Their First Drafts? |
Monday July 31, 2023 @11:43AM |
The Most Prolific Packager For Alpine Linux Is Stepping Away |
Sunday July 30, 2023 @05:09PM |
Salesforce Executive Shares 'Four Ways Coders Can Fight the Climate Crisis' |
Saturday July 22, 2023 @08:37PM |
Ask Slashdot: What Happens After Every Programmer is Using AI? |
Friday July 21, 2023 @10:54PM |
Is C++ Gaining in Popularity? |
Tuesday July 18, 2023 @05:08PM |
Most Outsourced Coders In India Will Be Gone In 2 Years Due To AI, Stability AI Boss Predicts |
Monday July 17, 2023 @03:11PM |
Wix's New Tool Can Create Entire Websites from Prompts |
Saturday July 15, 2023 @11:52AM |
Should High Schools Require a CS Course Before Students Graduate? |
Sunday July 09, 2023 @03:22PM |
Why Are There So Many Programming Languages? |
Friday July 07, 2023 @08:55PM |
Perl 5.38 Released with New Experimental Syntax for Defining Object Classes |
Sunday June 25, 2023 @09:08PM |
34% of AP CS Students Couldn't Solve This Java-Based 2D Array Question |
Wednesday June 21, 2023 @05:45PM |
Intel's New Font For Low-Vision Developers Is Causing Design Drama For Coders |
Saturday June 17, 2023 @03:34PM |
Is AI an Excuse for Not Learning To Code? |
Thursday June 15, 2023 @12:45AM |
92% of Programmers Are Using AI Tools, Says GitHub Developer Survey |
Tuesday June 13, 2023 @05:43PM |
Google Home's Script Editor Is Now Live |
Sunday June 11, 2023 @04:49PM |
Does the New 'Mojo' Programming Language Offer a Faster Superset of Python? |
Sunday June 11, 2023 @01:50AM |
Will Productivity Gains from AI-Generated Code Be Offset by the Need to Maintain and Review It? |
Saturday June 10, 2023 @01:59AM |
Is Self-Healing Code the Future of Software Development? |
Friday June 09, 2023 @11:00PM |
Intel Open Sources New 'One Mono' Font for Programmers |
Friday June 09, 2023 @04:47PM |
Google's Bard AI Can Now Write and Execute Code To Answer a Question |
Thursday June 08, 2023 @01:42PM |
Apollo, Popular Reddit App, To Shut Down June 30 Following API Price Surge |
Wednesday June 07, 2023 @10:01PM |
AI System Devises First Optimizations To Sorting Code In Over a Decade |
Wednesday June 07, 2023 @03:29PM |
Reddit Will Exempt Accessibility-Focused Apps From Its Unpopular API Pricing Changes |
Saturday June 03, 2023 @06:16PM |
CS50, the World's Most Popular Online Programming Class, Turns to AI for Help |
Saturday June 03, 2023 @11:14AM |
NYT: It's the End of Computer Programming As We Know It |
Thursday June 01, 2023 @06:20PM |
Stanford Golf Phenom Rose Zhang Turns Pro, Vows To 'Never Code Again' |
Monday May 29, 2023 @10:34AM |
AI Means Everyone Can Now Be a Programmer, Nvidia Chief Says |
Sunday May 21, 2023 @03:26PM |
Google Colab Promises 'AI-Powered Coding, Free of Charge' |
Tuesday May 16, 2023 @11:04PM |
'Mojo May Be the Biggest Programming Language Advance In Decades' |
Sunday May 14, 2023 @09:47PM |
Cloudflare CTO Predicts Coding AIs Will Bring More Productivity, Urges 'Data Fluidity' |
Thursday May 11, 2023 @04:35PM |
First Rust Code Shows Up in the Windows 11 Kernel |
Thursday May 11, 2023 @05:56AM |
'Stack Overflow is ChatGPT Casualty' |
Wednesday May 10, 2023 @09:49PM |
Google Launches an AI Coding Bot For Android Developers |
Sunday May 07, 2023 @09:14PM |
Codon Compiler For Python Is Fast - but With Some Caveats |
Sunday May 07, 2023 @08:15PM |
Why the Creator of Ruby on Rails Prefers Dynamic Typing |
Sunday May 07, 2023 @01:44AM |
Swift Creator's Company Builds New Programming Language 'Mojo' - a Python Superset |
Friday May 05, 2023 @02:19PM |
Hugging Face and ServiceNow Release a Free Code-Generating Model |
Sunday April 30, 2023 @08:20PM |
'sudo' and 'su' Are Being Rewritten In Rust For Memory Safety |
Sunday April 30, 2023 @12:54AM |
AI Coding Competition Pits GPT-4 Against Bard, GitHub Co-Pilot, Bing, and Claude+ |
Saturday April 29, 2023 @01:13PM |
Long-time Slashdot Reader Announces Open Source, Java-Based, Full-Stack Web Development Framework |
Sunday April 23, 2023 @08:40PM |
Python's PyPI Will Sell 'Organization Accounts' to Corporate Projects to Fund Staff |
Sunday April 23, 2023 @01:07PM |
Is It Time to Stop Saying 'Learn to Code'? |
Saturday April 22, 2023 @01:23AM |
New Version of Rust Speeds Compilation With Less Debugging Info By Default |
Friday April 21, 2023 @10:50PM |
Rust Foundation Apologizes For Proposed Trademark Changes, Promises Improvement |
Friday April 21, 2023 @05:31PM |
ChatGPT Creates Mostly Insecure Code, But Won't Tell You Unless You Ask |
Friday April 21, 2023 @01:36PM |
Linux Foundation Launches New Organization To Maintain TLA+ |
Saturday April 15, 2023 @09:22PM |
Would This OpenJDK Proposal Make Java Easier to Learn? |
Saturday April 15, 2023 @07:33PM |
Undercutting Microsoft, Amazon Offers Free Access to Its AI Coding Assistant 'CodeWhisperer' |
Saturday April 15, 2023 @01:37AM |
Government Cybersecurity Agencies Unite to Urge Secure Software Design Practices |
Tuesday April 11, 2023 @06:47PM |
Developer Creates 'Self-Healing' Programs That Fix Themselves Thanks To AI |
Monday April 10, 2023 @11:44AM |
Khan Academy Chief Says GPT-4 is Ready To Be a Tutor |
Sunday April 09, 2023 @05:43PM |
Rust Foundation Solicits Feedback on Updated Policy for Trademarks |
Saturday April 08, 2023 @08:08PM |
C Rival 'Zig' Cracks Tiobe Index Top 50, Go Remains in Top 10 |
Saturday April 08, 2023 @07:17PM |
ECMAScript 2023 Spec for JavaScript Includes New Methods for Arrays |
Saturday April 08, 2023 @06:47PM |
Raspberry Pi Launches Online Code Editor to Help Kids Learn |
Saturday April 08, 2023 @02:06PM |
Collabora Developer Explores Rust Support for the Linux Kernel's V4L2/Media Subsystem |
Friday April 07, 2023 @08:14PM |
Samsung Software Engineers Busted For Pasting Proprietary Code Into ChatGPT |
Tuesday April 04, 2023 @05:40PM |
A Collection of Fun Databases For Programming Exploration |
Sunday April 02, 2023 @10:27PM |
ACM Magazine Criticizes Latest Draft of New C Standard, 'C23' |
Thursday March 30, 2023 @02:04PM |
'One In Two New Npm Packages Is SEO Spam Right Now' |
Wednesday March 29, 2023 @01:19PM |
Apple Sets June 5 WWDC To Debut Mixed-Reality Headset |
Tuesday March 28, 2023 @01:12PM |
GitHub Slashes Its Entire Engineering Team in India |
Tuesday March 28, 2023 @10:59AM |
Amazon Opens Its Low-Bandwidth, Long-Range Sidewalk Network To Developers |
Sunday March 26, 2023 @08:56PM |
What's New in TypeScript 5.0? |
Saturday March 25, 2023 @09:07PM |
Ask Slashdot: Can an Aging Project Manager Return to Coding Unpopular Legacy Codebases? |
Friday March 24, 2023 @12:58PM |
'Docker is Deleting Open Source Organisations' |
Wednesday March 22, 2023 @10:43AM |
Microsoft's GitHub To Add OpenAI Chat Functions To Coding Tool |
Tuesday March 21, 2023 @01:04PM |
25 Years of Curl |
Tuesday March 21, 2023 @12:41PM |
Oracle Aims To Sustain Java's 27-Year Franchise With v20 Rollout |
Saturday March 18, 2023 @09:56PM |
'Codon' Compiles Python to Native Machine Code That's Even Faster Than C |
Saturday March 18, 2023 @08:19PM |
Programming Pioneer Grady Booch on Functional Programming, Web3, and Conscious Machines |
Saturday March 18, 2023 @11:25AM |
Something Pretty Right: a History of Visual Basic |
Thursday March 16, 2023 @03:01PM |
The NPM Registry's Safe Word is Socket |
Thursday March 16, 2023 @01:33PM |
Ethereum's Shanghai Upgrade To Enable Withdrawals Set for April |
Sunday March 12, 2023 @10:42PM |
Stack Overflow Survey Finds Most-Proven Technologies: Open Source, Cloud Computing, Machine Learning |
Saturday March 11, 2023 @08:44PM |
Go Finally Returns to Top 10 of Programming Language Popularity List |
Saturday March 11, 2023 @07:26PM |
Meet Zig: the Modern Alternative to the C Programming Language |
Friday March 10, 2023 @10:44PM |
GitHub Starts Mandatory 2FA Rollout Early for Some Users |
Sunday March 05, 2023 @02:33PM |
C++ 23 Language Standard Declared Feature-Complete |
Saturday March 04, 2023 @09:08PM |
Rust Project Reveals New 'Constitution' in Wake of Crisis |
Sunday February 26, 2023 @08:09PM |
Survey Claims Some Companies are Already Replacing Workers With ChatGPT |
Sunday February 26, 2023 @03:45AM |
Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Podcast About Computer Science? |
Sunday February 26, 2023 @01:43AM |
GCC Gets a New Frontend for Rust |
Sunday February 26, 2023 @01:35AM |
GCC Now Has a New Frontend for Rust |
Saturday February 25, 2023 @03:56PM |
Microsoft .NET 8 Will Bolster Linux Support |
Thursday February 23, 2023 @10:15AM |
Coinbase Launches Blockchain Base To Help Developers Build dApps On-chain |
Sunday February 19, 2023 @12:12AM |
Whatever Happened to the Ruby Programming Language? |
Saturday February 18, 2023 @07:54AM |
CBS Explores Whether AI Will Eliminate Jobs -- Especially For Coders |
Tuesday February 14, 2023 @05:50PM |
How Rust Went From a Side Project To the World's Most-Loved Programming Language |
Monday February 13, 2023 @12:53PM |
Can C++ Be Safer? Bjarne Stroustrup On Ensuring Memory Safety |
Saturday February 11, 2023 @01:59AM |
A Developer is Reimplementing GNU's Core Utilities in Rust |
Friday February 10, 2023 @06:52PM |
Google's Go May Add Telemetry That's On By Default |
Wednesday February 08, 2023 @03:41AM |
GitHub Claims Source Code Search Engine Is a Game Changer |
Sunday February 05, 2023 @04:24PM |
ChatGPT Passes Google's Coding Interview, Answers Question About More Possible Layoffs |
Thursday February 02, 2023 @05:48PM |
Back At Google Again, Cofounder Sergey Brin Just Filed His First Code Request In Years |
Monday January 30, 2023 @12:17AM |
Can Stack Overflow's Survey Predict Next Year's Most Loved Programming Language? |
Saturday January 28, 2023 @10:25PM |
OpenAI Hires an Army of Contractors. Will They Make Coding Obsolete? |
Saturday January 28, 2023 @09:36PM |
What Happens When ChatGPT Can Find Bugs in Computer Code? |