Python 2 will reach end-of-life by 2020
The Python Software Foundation has announced that Python 2.0 will end on the 1st of January in 2020. The programming language was introduced in 2000. Six years later, it was succeeded by Python 3.0. However, version 2.0 was still widely used by developers.
The two programming languages existed s... Read more
Programming language Python available in Azure Functions
Azure Functions 2.0 now supports the Python 3.6 programming language. The support for Python on Microsoft's serverless service was announced in a blog post.
AWS, a competitor of Microsoft, already had support for Python in Lambda Functions. Now the programming language can also be used for Azure ... Read more
Uber comes up with open-source dev library for evolutionary algorithms
Evolutionary computing is the use of biological evolutionary theory in the development of algorithms. Uber has introduced an open-source dev library for this technique called EvoGrad.
The creation of evolutionary algorithms is the goal of evolutionary computing, in which a large number of variants ... Read more
PyPI removes rogue Python libraries that install backdoors on Linux
The official Python Package Index (PyPI) has removed three rogue Python libraries. Security company ReversingLabs discovered that the libraries contained a hidden backdoor, which was activated when the libraries were installed on Linux systems.
The three packages - libpeshnx, libpesh and libari - we... Read more
Nearly 35 years old C++ programming language suddenly becomes more popular
There seems to be a growing interest in the 35 year old C++ programming language. The language has risen to third place in the Tiobe index for April this year, writes ZDNet. Tiobe's index shows how popular a language is among programmers.
C++ was created in 1985 as an extension of the C programming... Read more
Pyboard D-series now available for MicroPython robots
Today the new Pyboard D-series for MicroPython robots has been made available. The microcontroller is sold for 56 dollars (49.70 euros) and offers developers a device that requires very little power to run programs.
These are programs built with MicroPython, a stripped-down version of the hugely po... Read more
Popular programming language Python now in Microsoft Store to download
While most Linux and Unix systems have a native Python installation, Windows does not. To make Python available, the Python team has compiled Windows installers for many years. But that will come to an end, because Python can now be downloaded from the Microsoft Store.
The Microsoft Store version is... Read more
Apple programming language Swift is steadily gaining popularity
Programming language Swift, which allows developers to build apps for iOS, is now one of the top ten most popular programming languages. Python has meanwhile, one month after finishing in the top three, dropped back to fourth place.
This is demonstrated by the TIOBE index with the most popular progr... Read more
Programming language Julia is rapidly becoming more popular.
For the first time, Python is in the top three most popular programming languages. Only C and Java are even more popular. According to TIOBE, an institute that maintains an index of the most popular programming languages, Python is becoming increasingly widespread and is the standard choice at unive... Read more