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OpenTofu may be showing us the wrong way to fork

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OpenTofu’s founders had a mission. Upset by HashiCorp licensing changes in August 2023 to its popular...
OpenTofu’s founders had a mission. Upset by HashiCorp licensing changes in August 2023 to its popular Terraform infrastructure-as-code tool, OpenTofu set out to be the “open source successor to the MPLv2-licensed Terraform,” further promising that it “will be community-driven, impartial, layered and modular, and bac...
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Redis vs. the Trillion-Dollar Cabals

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Recently Redis changed its license, and mountains of misinformation have followed, not to mention a fork...
Recently Redis changed its license, and mountains of misinformation have followed, not to mention a fork driven by trillion-dollar cloud company AWS. Among that misinformation is Steven J. Vaughn-Nicols’ earnest but incorrect declaration that the Redis change “means developers can no longer use Redis’ code.”This is ...
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Return to Office Is a Mistake

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The COVID pandemic was a struggle for everyone—some more than others—but a major factor in making...
The COVID pandemic was a struggle for everyone—some more than others—but a major factor in making it through was the ability to work from home. Many companies were able to continue only because their workforce could work productively remotely. Some companies, notably tech companies, even thrived. One could argue tha...
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C++ creator rebuts White House warning

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C++ creator rebuts White House warning

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C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup has defended the widely used programming language in response to a Biden...
C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup has defended the widely used programming language in response to a Biden administration report that calls on developers to use memory-safe languages and avoid using vulnerable ones such as C++ and C.In a March 15 response to an inquiry from InfoWorld, Stroustrup pointed out strengths of...
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Intro to Hyperscript: Rethinking JavaScript

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Some of us remember HyperCard, an interesting branch in the evolutionary tree of programming languages. If...
Some of us remember HyperCard, an interesting branch in the evolutionary tree of programming languages. If you’re of a certain age, you might even have learned programming with HyperCard. Hyperscript is a newer technology that takes some of the benefits of HyperCard, especially its simplicity and English-like syntax...
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Complexity bad: An interview with Htmx creator Carson Gross

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Carson Gross is the creator of HTMX and Hyperscript, the mind behind The Grug Brained Developer,...
Carson Gross is the creator of HTMX and Hyperscript, the mind behind The Grug Brained Developer, a professor of software engineering at Montana State University, and co-author of Hypermedia Systems. It was a pleasure to pick Carson's brain about the impetus behind projects like HTMX and Hyperscript, the failures of ...
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GitHub Copilot makes insecure code even less secure, Snyk says

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GitHub’s AI-powered coding assistant, GitHub Copilot, may suggest insecure code when the user’s existing codebase contains...
GitHub’s AI-powered coding assistant, GitHub Copilot, may suggest insecure code when the user’s existing codebase contains security issues, according to developer security company Snyk.GitHub Copilot can replicate existing security issues in code, Snyk said in a blog post published February 22. “This means that exis...
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White House urges developers to dump C and C++

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US President Joe Biden’s administration wants software developers to use memory-safe programming languages and ditch vulnerable...
US President Joe Biden’s administration wants software developers to use memory-safe programming languages and ditch vulnerable ones like C and C++.The White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD), in a report released Monday, called on developers to reduce the risk of cyberattacks by using programming l...
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Java virtual threads hit with pinning issue

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Java’s virtual threads, introduced in JDK 21 in September 2023 to make it easier to write...
Java’s virtual threads, introduced in JDK 21 in September 2023 to make it easier to write and maintain concurrent applications, has suffered from a “pinning” issue that arises with synchronized methods or synchronized statements. Oracle detailed the virtual thread pinning issue this week on the Inside Java website. ...
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Rust developers concerned about complexity, low usage

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While the use of Rust language by professional programmers continues to grow, Rust users expressed concerns...
While the use of Rust language by professional programmers continues to grow, Rust users expressed concerns about the language becoming too complex and the low level of Rust usage in the tech industry, according to the 2023 State of Rust Survey report.The report, which was produced by the Rust Survey Team and publis...
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Zig tops Stack Overflow survey for highest-paid programming language

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Zig has topped an annual Stack Overflow survey in the category of highest-paid programming technology, making...
Zig has topped an annual Stack Overflow survey in the category of highest-paid programming technology, making the relative newcomer to the scene a solid investment for developers who are looking for gainful employment in application development.Developers programming in Zig—an all-purpose language that offers an alt...
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Go language hits top in the Tiobe index

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Google’s Go language, or golang, has reached its highest position ever in the Tiobe language popularity...
Google’s Go language, or golang, has reached its highest position ever in the Tiobe language popularity index. The language, now in the eighth ranked position for language popularity, has been on the rise for several years.Go, which is probably best known as the language used to develop Docker and Kubernetes, climbe...
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Why companies are leaving the cloud

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Don’t look now, but 25% of organizations surveyed in the United Kingdom have already moved half...
Don’t look now, but 25% of organizations surveyed in the United Kingdom have already moved half or more of their cloud-based workloads back to on-premises infrastructures. This is according to a recent study by Citrix, a Cloud Software Group business unit.The survey questioned 350 IT leaders on their current approac...
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Is API design a lost art?

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It’s Friday morning, and you are excited. Today your new generative AI system running on a...
It’s Friday morning, and you are excited. Today your new generative AI system running on a large public cloud provider is going to begin to work with the existing e-commerce systems that drive 80% of the company’s revenue.The company is expecting the new ability to generate more sales while providing a better unders...
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