Posts by tag

Programming Language

13 posts
View Post
  • 8 min

How To Migrate Your Code From PHP 7.4 to 8.1

With the recent end-of-life for PHP 7.4, it’s time to migrate your code. Here are a few options to do that. The end-of-life (EOL) for PHP 7.4 was Monday, November 28, 2022. If you’re like me, that date snuck up much faster than anticipated. While your PHP 7.4 code isn’t going to immediately stop working, you do need to begin making plans for the future of this codebase. What are your options? You could continue to remain on PHP 7.4, but there are several benefits to updating. The biggest are security risk and support. As we move farther and farther away from the…
View Post
Share
View Post
  • 6 min

Why I Love Go

I’ve been building software over the last four decades, as a developer, manager and executive in both small and large software companies. I started my career working on commercial compilers, first BASIC and then C. I have written a lot of code in many different languages, and managed teams with even broader language usage. I learned Go about 5 years ago when I was CTO at a startup/scaleup. At the time, we were looking to move to a microservice architecture, and that shift gave us the opportunity to consider moving away from the incumbent language (Scala). As I read through…
View Post
Share
View Post
  • 2 min

How-To: Install Kotlin on Ubuntu 22.04

Prerequisites Ubuntu 22.04 Java is installed. See here on how to install Java on Ubuntu 22.04. Install via SDKMAN 01. Open a terminal and install unzip and zip programs needed by SDKMAN. SDKMAN! is a tool for managing parallel versions of multiple Software Development Kits on most Unix based systems 02.Install SDKMAN, which will be used to install Kotlin. 03. Run the initialization script and follow the instructions on-screen to install SDKMAN. In this example, the script is located under the /home/geek/ directory, your command will be different. 04. Check if SDKMAN has been installed by checking its version. 05.…
View Post
Share
View Post
  • 5 min

Still Pretending You Know The Differences Between JavaScript and Typescript?

In the beginning, there was JavaScript. The popular scripting language we all know and love. Ever since its creation, it’s been the dominating language for web development. Then two decades later, Microsoft introduced TypeScript, a superset of JavaScript, designed for the development of large web applications. If you know anything about Typescript and JavaScript, you’ll know they’re not competing forces. They have a unique relationship, working hand in hand. That being said, there are some differences — and that’s what I want to discuss in this article. Let’s break down the pros and cons so you can better decide which scripting…
View Post
Share
View Post
  • 3 min

Create An App With This Arnold Schwarzenegger-Themed Programming Language

Build your Java muscle while having some fun with ArnoldC, an open source programming language. Have you ever wished programming were more like an action movie? If you answered yes, then I have the language for you. While wandering the internet to find the most obscure and fun open source languages, I came across ArnoldC. ArnoldC is an imperative programming language where the basic keywords are replaced with quotes from various Arnold Schwarzenegger movies. For this tutorial, I’ll be using a Debian-based operating system with Terminator and the Vim editor. While you follow this tutorial, I would highly recommend rewatching…
View Post
Share
View Post
  • 3 min

Why is the Swift Language Gaining Popularity? Is it Tailored Swift?

What is the Swift Language? Swift is a powerful and intuitive programming language developed by Apple Inc for iOS iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, and Linux application development. Swift combines decades of experience in building Apple platforms with the latest research in programming languages. Swift APIs are even easier to read and maintain because named parameters are expressed in a clean syntax. Better yet, you don’t need to type semi-colons. Swift is a general-purpose, functional, imperative, and block-structured language for iOS development. Swift adopts the best of C and Objective-C, without the constraints of C compatibility. Swift is an object-oriented language…
View Post
Share
View Post
  • 4 min

Learn Rust In 2022

If you’re going to explore Rust this year, download our free Rust cheat sheet, so you have a quick reference for the basics. Rust is a relatively new programming language, and it’s already a popular one winning over programmers from all industries. Still, it’s also a language that builds on everything that’s come before. Rust wasn’t made in a day, after all, so even though there are concepts in Rust that seem wildly different from what you might have learned from Python, Java, C++, and so on, they all have a foundation in the same CPU and NUMA architecture you’ve always been…
View Post
Share
View Post
  • 4 min

Top Programming Languages: Most Popular And Fastest Growing Choices For Developers

SlashData’s latest Developer Nation report looks at the popularity of programming languages and trends from the global developer community.  JavaScript is now used by more than 16.4 million developers globally, says a survey of more than 19,000 coders – making it the world’s most popular programming language “by a wide margin”. SlashData’s 21st State of the Developer Nation Report examined global software developer trends across 160 countries during Q3 2021, covering programming languages, tools, APIs, apps and technology segments, as well as attitudes of developers themselves. The report also looked at developer involvement in 5G and IoT, specifically how programmers were taking…
View Post
Share
View Post
  • 4 min

Visual Studio Code for Python and Data Science? Top 3 Plugins You Must Have

Is it the best code editor for Python and Data Science? Are you struggling to find an optimal code editor for Python programming and data science? You’re not alone. There’s a ton of options to choose from — both free and paid — and today I’ll show you my favorite free one. It’s Visual Studio Code — a completely free code editor from Microsoft. It’s by far the most flexible and feature-rich code editor I found. It even has more features than PyCharm Community, which is supposed to be a professional IDE. And don’t even get me started on Jupyter —…
View Post
Share
View Post
  • 18 min

What Was Your First Programming Language?

These 24 open source technologists share their programming origin stories. We asked our contributors What was your first programming language? but the question goes much deeper than that. There are stories to tell about who suggested it or what prompted you to learn it. If you were paid to do so, and what happened next. Then there’s a lot it says about your age and what was going on in the world. Let’s hear a little bit about these 24 technologists’ stories. What was your first programming language? BASIC Were you paid to learn it? Nope. Did you choose it? Not really. Why? It was Christmas of 1979, my…
View Post
Share