Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: They say “always be learning” — but do podcasts actually help? I’ve been trying to find podcasts that discuss programming, and I’ve enjoyed Lex Fridman’s interviews with language creators like Guido v…

Slashdot reader sleeping cat shares a recent FOSDEM talk by a compiler engineer on the team building Rust-GCC, “an alternative compiler implementation for the Rust programming language.”

“If gccrs interprets a program differently from rustc, this is …

Coinbase, the second largest crypto exchange by trading volume, has launched Base, an Ethereum-focused layer-2 (L2) blockchain, said Jesse Pollak, lead for Base and head of protocols at Coinbase. From a report: In the past, Coinbase has homed in on the…

Three years after Rails was introduced in 2005, InfoWorld asked whether it might the successor to Java.

That didn’t happen. So this week InfoWorld “spoke to current and former Ruby programmers to try to trace the language’s rise and fall.” Some respo…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: Many software projects emerge because — somewhere out there — a programmer had a personal problem to solve. That’s more or less what happened to Graydon Hoare. In 2006, Hoare was a 29-ye…

C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup “joins calls for changing the programming language itself to address security concerns,” according to an article shared by Slashdot user guest reader:

In mid-January, the official C++ “direction group” — which makes…

A Rust-based re-implementation of GNU core utilities like cp and mv is “reaching closer to parity with the widely-used GNU upstream and becoming capable of taking on more real-world uses,” reports Phoronix:

Debian developer Sylvestre Ledru [also an en…

Russ Cox, a Google software engineer steering the development of the open source Go programming language, has presented a possible plan to implement telemetry in the Go toolchain. However many in the Go community object because the plan calls for telem…