Development News, Features, and Interviews

• Petition asks Adobe to open source Flash

  Petition on GitHub appears in the wake of Adobe announcing its end-of-life schedule for the Flash Player

• Why you can’t beat a BYO Digital Platform Strategy for best fit and predictability

  A good Digital Platform Strategy (DPS) must support five key business outcomes: Deliver faster, experiment responsibly, build an ecosystem, gain insights and provide a consistent experience.

• Where are the best software developers? Not Silicon Valley

  Technical recruiter HackerRank says the best developers are in Washington and Wyoming, based on the results of its coding skills tests

• OWL: A 'better' PHP for single-server apps

  OWL Web Language features a JavaScript-like syntax and compiles to PHP, promising more security and safety

• Adobe: Flash Player to reach end-of-life in 2020

  Adobe's proprietary rich Internet plug-in technology is finally stepping aside for HTML5 and other web standards.

• What is Node.js? The JavaScript runtime explained

  Node.js is a lean, fast, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that is useful for both servers and desktop applications

• .Net Core 2.0 to extend coding optimizations to Linux

  The next version of Microsoft's open source, cross-platform runtime will make native code run faster on Linux as well as Windows

• JavaScript for squares: The incredible rise of TypeScript

  The web needed a freewheeling programming language like JavaScript, but now it’s time to set some rules

• Gallery: Oracle Code 2017

  Oracle staged its Oracle Code 2017 event on 18 July at Doltone House in Pyrmont, Sydney.

• Microcosm simplifies state management for React apps

  Viget Labs tool serves as a central place to track all application data for React, with Preact, Vue, and Glimmer support on the to-do list

• Survey says Python is tops with developers

  Packt survey finds Python is the most commonly used tool, while Splunk, Hadoop, and Kafka skills draw the highest pay

• How to get started with Python

  How to pick the right Python distribution, the right Python IDE, and the right supporting tools to jumpstart your Python programming

• Mozilla brings Python-style project documentation to JavaScript

  The Sphinx-js plug-in works with Python's Sphinx tool to allow developers to more fully document their JavaScript APIs

• Go language soars to new heights in popularity

  For the first time, Go makes the top 10 in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity

• 9 cutting-edge programming languages worth learning now

  These strong alternatives to the popular languages are gaining steam -- and may be the perfect fit for your next project

• Luna brings visual development to functional programming

  Developers typically start sketching components and dependencies on a whiteboard before coding, so Luna’s creators argue that it doesn’t make sense to then implement that logic only in text

• Get started with AWS Lambda

  A first-hand, step-by-step look at the ease and simplicity of Amazon's "function as a service" platform

• How to write event-driven IoT microservices that don’t break

  Today’s IoT environments are a potential rat’s nest of asynchronous craziness just waiting to happen

• Eclipse gets ready for Java 9 with Oxygen release train

  The annual coordinated release covers 83 projects, including Linux Tools, PDT, Sirius, and EGit

• The road to Java 9: Modular Java finally gets OK'd

  IBM, Eclipse Foundation, Red Hat, and others decide to stand out of the way of the controversial technology’s deployment in Java 9