Americans Have a Hard Time Trusting Chatbots: Pew Research Nick Kolakowski, October 19, 2018 2 min read Americans don’t trust social media bots, according to new data from the Pew Research Center. Specifically, some 80...
Swift 5 Pushed Back to 2019; Pre-WWDC Release Expected Nate Swanner, September 27, 2018 5 min read Swift 5 is now in the spotlight for iOS developers (version 4.2 was released earlier this month). While we’ve...
Python Keeps Climbing Among Most-Popular Languages Nick Kolakowski, September 17, 2018 2 min read To say that Python is a popular programming language is a bit of an understatement, like saying that the sun is kind of...
Older Programming Languages Refuse to Die: RedMonk Nick Kolakowski, September 6, 2018 3 min read Older programming languages refuse to die. That’s the conclusion you could draw from analyst firm RedMonk’s...
Exploring Microsoft’s Adoption of Python in Visual Studio David Bolton, September 5, 2018 7 min read You don't usually think of Microsoft and Python in the same sentence. But now, in Visual Studio 2017, you can develop...
Julia Reaches a Big Milestone. Can It Become a Big Language? Nick Kolakowski, August 31, 2018 2 min read Julia, an open-source programming language created by MIT, has reached its version 1.0 milestone. MIT has carefully...
5 Programming Languages That May Dominate the Future Nick Kolakowski, August 30, 2018 5 min read The other week, we predicted five programming languages doomed for extinction. It sparked a lot of comments, to put it...
Microsoft Cutting Off App Submissions for Windows 8 Store Nick Kolakowski, August 27, 2018 3 min read If any tech pros are maintaining apps in the Windows 8 Store, or for Windows Phone 8, now’s the time to start...
5 Programming Languages Doomed to Extinction Nick Kolakowski, August 21, 2018 8 min read It’s the programming equivalent of the circle of life: programming languages are created, gain popularity, hit their...
Kotlin, Swift Battle Older Languages for Adoption: RedMonk Nick Kolakowski, August 15, 2018 3 min read A number of analyst firms rank programming languages by popularity, and the top tiers of those rankings stay pretty...
