Pro C and Rust programming languages continue to rise 3 Jun C language tops Tiobe’s index of language popularity for a second month, while Rust cracks the top 20 for the first time
Pro C++ proposal dismisses backward compatibility 3 Apr Proposal would give up backward and binary compatibility for safety and simplicity
Pro Hidden classes could be coming to Java 7 Feb JDK Enhancement Proposal said this could make other JVM languages more efficient
Pro Unison functional language touts immutable code 17 Jan Experimental Haskell-like language promises the ability to describe entire distributed systems with a single program
Pro C named Tiobe’s language of the year 8 Jan Edging out C#, Python, and Swift, with the largest increase in measured popularity year-on-year
Pro Ruby 2.7 improves garbage collection, pattern matching 7 Jan Ruby upgrade also includes enhancements to the REPL and an experimental just-in-time compiler
Pro Nullable reference types most impactful C# 8.0 feature, says Microsoft 3 Dec Capability introduced in C# 8.0 promises to help developers eliminate common, difficult-to-debug null reference exceptions
Pro Google App Engine adds support for Java 11 1 Nov It’s now generally available on App Engine and supports twice the amount of memory as Java 8
Pro Visual Studio Code updates Java support 25 Oct Microsoft’s code editor adds new code navigation, code actions, code snippets, and refactoring features
Pro Google Bazel builds and tests Bazel 1.0 23 Oct Open source build tool brings fast incremental builds to languages, platforms, and code bases
Pro Pluralsight Technology Index ranks most in-demand technologies 23 Oct Ranks technologies used by software engineers, IT operations, information security, and data professionals
Pro Swift 5.1 offers module stability for binary frameworks 27 Sep Update introduces features for library evolution and compiler and library improvements
Pro F# 4.7 brings compiler and syntax improvements 25 Sep Microsoft’s functional-first language’s data analysis and machine learning will improve
Pro Oracle pits GraalVM against Google Go 23 Sep Oracle touts the fast startup and small memory footprint of the polyglot VM
Pro Ruby language upgrade improves garbage collection, pattern matching 24 Jun Ruby 2.7 preview includes enhancements to the REPL, experimental just-in-time compiler
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