Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: According to Google Trends, peak “Lean to Code” occurred in early 2019 when laid-off Buzzfeed and Huffpost journalists were taunted with the phrase on Twitter…

As Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently…

The Rust team released a new version Thursday — Rust 1.69.0 — boasting over over 3,000 new commits from over 500 contributors.

Phoronix highlights two new improvements:

In order to speed-up compilation speeds, Rust 1.69 and moving forwar…

“The Rust Foundation on Monday apologized for confusion caused by the organization’s proposed trademark policy changes,” reports the Register.

The Foundation now says their proposed policy “clearly needs improvement” and “there are many valid critiqu…

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit tech consortium that manages various open source efforts, today announced the launch of the TLA+ Foundation to promote the adoption and development of the TLA+ programming language. AWS, Oracle and Microsoft are amon…

“Java would become easier for students to learn under a proposal to introduce flexible main methods and anonymous main classes to the language,” reports InfoWorld.

Details of the plan include enhancing the protocol by which Java programs are launche…

Amazon is making its AI-powered coding assistant CodeWhisperer free for individual developers, reports the Verge, “undercutting the $10 per month pricing of its Microsoft-made rival.”

Amazon launched CodeWhisperer as a preview last year, which develop…

“Rust” and “Cargo” are registered trademarks held by the Rust Foundation — the independent non-profit supporting Rust’s maintainers. In August 1,000 people responded to the foundation’s Trademark Policy Review Survey, after which the foundation i…

An anonymous reader shares this report from Tom’s Hardware:
When we think about Raspberry Pi, we normally picture single-board computers, but the Raspberry Pi Foundation was started to help kids learn about computers and it wants to help whether or not…

InfoWorld reports:
Zig, a general purpose programming language that interacts with C/C++ programs and promises to be a modern alternative to C, has made an appearance in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity. Zig entered the top 50 in the …

Four new capabilities are planned for the JavaScript specification’s next update, reports InfoWorld. Based on a list of finished proposals, InfoWorld expects the following in ECMAScript 2023:

– Array find from last, a proposal for .findlast() and .fi…