Developer survey shows C# losing ground to JavaScript and others
C# falls in popularity for cloud apps but is still a major player in gaming
A new developer survey from Slashdata has shown the popularity of C# dropping from third to sixth place in three years. C# is the primary language of Microsoft's .NET platform.
Despite the drop in popularity, however,... Read more
The Python Software Foundation releases Python 3.9 RC2
The Python Software foundation has released 3.9 RC2 and warns users to look out for deprecation warnings, as they are dropping backwards compatibility for unsupported Python 2.7. Python maintainers stopped support for Python 2.7 in April, five years after it was meant to end.
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Oracle announces Java 15 on the language’s 25th birthday
Coming amid reports of declining popularity, the company latest release is attempting to win back the hearts of developers worldwide.
Oracle announced on Tuesday the release of Oracle JDK 15, or simply Java 15. The new release marks 25 years since the programming language's debut.
"As Java ce... Read more
Data scientists think Python is the best alternative for Julia
Python is seen as the best alternative according to data scientists who use the Julia programming language for big data and analytics. If Julia did not exist, they would choose Python. Developer Julia Computing concludes this in its most recent annual study on the use, advantages and disadvantages ... Read more
New consortium to create Python Data API standards
Several machine learning groups are joining forces in a Python consortium. This consortium will determine the Python Data API standards. The machine learning groups Apache MXNet and Open Neural Network Exchange were the once to start this initiative.
The idea is that the collaboration between ma... Read more
Facebook makes Pysa tool for detect vulnerable code open-source
Facebook makes its Pysa tool for automatic discovery of vulnerable code in Python open-source. The tool uses static code analysis for this purpose.
With Pysa, software developers can check their Python code for potential vulnerabilities. This prevents these vulnerabilities from ending up in prod... Read more
Google launches version 2.3.0 of TensorFlow
Google has released a new version of its AI development platform TensorFlow. New features include an experimental API and more functionality for TensorFlow profiler.
The update of the AI development platform arrived two months after the previous release of version 2.0. In version 2.3.0, more att... Read more
Python more popular than Java in programming language ranking
RedMonk released its most recent list of the most popular programming languages, and for the first time since 2012, Java is not in the top two places. Python Programming language has instead taken the number two position trailing behind the reigning champion JavaScript.
The fuss about Python is ... Read more
Python apps will soon become available on Android
Python developers hope to build mobile applications with the Python programming language. So that they can run Python apps on mobile devices. The open-source project Beeware should help with this.
Python is one of the preferred programming languages of developers for building applications. Until... Read more
Python extension for Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code updated once more
Visual Studio Code, Microsoft's code editing tool, gets a new version of the Python extension. Among the improvements are improvements for Jupyter notebooks and less heavy configuration notifications.
Currently, the Python extension is the most popular programming language extension on the Visua... Read more