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Thomas Claburn writes via The Register: GitHub has a lot of code to search — more than 200 million repositories — and says last November’s beta version of a search engine optimized for source code that has caused a “flurry of innovation.” GitHub engi…
“Code-hosting platform GitHub has announced that 100 million developers are now using the platform,” reports TechCrunch:
The figure represents a substantial hike on the 3 million users GitHub counted 10 years ago, the 28 million it claimed when Microso…
An EMA survey of 129 software development professionals uncovered that for those using code scanning tools, only 10% of organizations prevented a higher percentage of vulnerabilities than organizations not using code scanning tools, while continuous tr…
74.48% of developers use Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code, according to one survey conducted by StackOverflow. And besides GitHub Copilot, there’s over 40,000 other extensions in the VSCode Marketplace.
Unfortunately, InfoWorld reports, “Researchers at…
guest reader writes: The Open Standards site contains a new paper from Bjarne Stroustrup titled A call to action: Think seriously about “safety”; then do something sensible about it.
Bjarne reacts to an NSA report about Software Memory Safety since …
A security researcher found a serious prototype pollution vulnerability in Python programming language. Exploiting the…
Researcher Finds Class Pollution – A Prototype Pollution Variant Affecting Python on Latest Hacking News | Cyber Security News…
“The Tiobe index gauges language popularity using a formula that assesses searches on programming languages in Google, Bing, Yahoo, Wikipedia, and other search engines,” writes InfoWorld. And they add that this year the “vaunted” C++ programming langua…