Over the last few years I’ve been feeling like living exclusively in my Python programming happy place is something I can’t afford to do.
It’s almost impossible to ignore the rise of JavaScript in our industry. What started out as an extension project for Mozilla has grown into an ecosystem with more tentacles than an H.P. Lovecraft novel.
[06/08/2021 Update: Added a bit about Windows Terminal. Dunno how I forgot that the first time around!]
As I’ve written about previously and elsewhere, I felt so badly burned by Apple’s laptop hardware design decisions of a few years ago that I’ve rather fallen out of love with that platform for my personal work. The latest hardware is much better, but I feel like the message has been sent and received, so I’m not rushing back any time soon.
It was the dawn of a new century in the tech world. We’d just survived the great Y2K scare which, for many of us, turned out to be nothing. I spent a memorably pleasant Y2K eve playing board games and sipping champagne at my company’s East Cambridge office, enjoying the company of my co-workers. I felt like I was on top of the world.
[Note: I originally wrote this forQuorabut am reposting it here with slight embelishment.
In hard core technical circles, discussing the relative merits of
these two editors is pretty much verboten. In the past, debates around
Amazon has finally come out with the details around their Kindle Development Kit (KDK) you can read the details here.
This is absolutely great news for the J2ME development community, this is a mainstream device from a big name manufacturer where they can ply their existing skill set or port their existing apps.
Or has the number of new programming languages been increasing exponentially of late?
I don’t just mean the number of new languages being invented, because that’s always been the case, but the number which are actually garnering a fair bit of tech buzz?