PROGRAMMING & SCRIPTING
PERL: The Most Hated Programming Language. What do computer programmers not want to code in? Perl, the Old Spice of programming languages, is the most disliked by a significant margin, reports Stack Overflow. Delphi, used by children to write viruses for adults, and Visual Basic, used by adults to write games for children, are running neck-and-neck for second place. Read more
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JAVASCRIPT: At GitHub, JavaScript Rules in Usage, TensorFlow Leads in Forks. Python and TypeScript makes big gains in pull requests, while Java slips to third place. Read the rest
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ANDROID: Kotlin Expected to Surpass Java as Android Default Programming Language for Apps. A new report released earlier this week estimates that Kotlin will surpass Java as the primary programming language used for Android apps by December 2018. Until earlier this year, Kotlin was a little-known programming language [1, 2] that was built to run on the Java Virtual Machine, but one that could also be compiled to JavaScript and could interoperate with Java. The programming language got a serious boost in the developer community when Google officially announced earlier this year, at the Google I/O 2017 conference, that Kotlin will become the first third-party supported programming language for Android apps, besides Java. Find out more
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MICROSOFT: Azure Functions Adds Support for Java. Azure Functions, Microsoft’s platform for building serverless applications, has long supported a variety of programming languages but it’s adding an important one today: Java. Fittingly, the company made this announcement at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco. Read more
[TECHCRUNCH.COM]
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