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...
Python, C Top Employers’ Most In-Demand Programming Languages Nick Kolakowski, August 14, 2018 3 min read Which programming languages are most in-demand among employers? According to an updated ranking by IEEE Spectrum, the...
Python Gaining Popularity Among Students, Companies: TIOBE Nick Kolakowski, August 3, 2018 2 min read Python continues to creep up the TIOBE Index, which attempts to rank the world’s programming languages by popularity....
Deploying a .NET Application with Docker David Bolton, August 2, 2018 7 min read Containers are a relatively new phenomenon for Windows. Although containers evolved for 20 years in the Linux...
Bing Surfaces Code Snippets, Boosting Usefulness to Developers Nick Kolakowski, July 27, 2018 3 min read Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, is making it easier for developers to discover exactly the code snippet they need...
Python 3.7.0: Five New Features to Learn and Explore David Bolton, July 26, 2018 7 min read Given the newness of Python 3.7.0—it was released on June 27—my first attempts to run it on WSL (Windows Subsystem...
Kotlin Maturing as First-Class Android Developer Language Nick Kolakowski, July 23, 2018 3 min read By naming Kotlin a “first class” language for Android development, Google piqued the curiosity of mobile developers...
Why Microsoft’s HoloLens Project Risks Failure Nick Kolakowski, July 5, 2018 4 min read Whatever happened to the HoloLens? Two years ago, Microsoft managed to build some buzz around its HoloLens augmented...
Using Linux Natively Within Windows 10: A Quick Guide David Bolton, July 5, 2018 7 min read If you're a Windows developer who dabbles in Linux (as I've done for the past decade), you might have gone down one of...
4 Fast Python Compilers for 2018 David Bolton, June 28, 2018 8 min read Python is a reasonably fast language, but it's not as fast as compiled programs. That's because CPython, the standard...
