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● 03.30.14

●● Development News: Programming, New Languages, and Women’s Stories

Posted in News Roundup at 2:05 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Programming

Google’s Go Programming Language: Taking Cloud Development By StormAdoption of Google’s programming language is rapidly gaining on Java and others. musl libc 1.0.0 releasedA Shining Ruby in Production EnvironmentsOpen Source Python 3.4 Released with New AsyncioJCache Data Caching for Java App Programming Hits the Channel

Hack

Facebook Creates New Open-Source Language, HackFacebook releases open-source coding language – ‘Hack’Facebook Releases Open Source Hack Language to Improve on PHPFacebook Releases Open Source HackFacebook hacks out PHP alternativeHack: Facebook Open-Sources Programming LanguageFacebook unveils Hack, a new programming language for writing code fasterFacebook Unveils New Programming Language: HackFacebook Creates New Open-Source Language, HackThe new open-source programming language, Hack, is described by its Facebook developers as operating “seamlessly with PHP,” adding that it “reconciles the fast development cycle of PHP with the discipline provided by static typing, while adding many features commonly found in other modern programming languages.”

Women

Let your code speak for youThere are rapidly growing feature set, high commit rates, and code contributions happening across the globe to Apache Hadoop and related Apache Software Foundation projects. However, the number of woman developers, committers, and Project Management Committee (PMC) members in this vast and diversified ecosystem are really diminutive. For the Hadoop project alone, only 5% out of 84 committers are women; and this has been the case for over the past 2 years.These Women Are Building The Software That Quietly Runs The WorldAnd when it comes to the open-source software industry, women are even harder to find. A recent study found that 1 out 10 open-source programmers are women (about 10%), and that’s up from 2007, when only 2 out of every 100 were women (about 2%).What’s the best entry point for women in computing? Open source.During Grace Hopper 2013 on Open Source Day, we worked on more than 10 open source projects and had more than 250 attendees. Experienced women in tech were there to help teach other women how to do programming for their particular project or to work with them in a mentorship capacity. Each year we find that we fill up in terms of the number of attendees we can handle for the event! And then we have a waiting list. So, if this sounds like something you are excited about doing or you are interested in participating in, sign up for Open Source Day sooner rather than later to make sure that you get a spot.GitHub puts co-founder on leave after harassment claims“This weekend, GitHub employee Julie Horvath spoke publicly about negative experiences she had at GitHub that contributed to her resignation,” GitHub CEO and co-founder Chris Wanstrath wrote in a blog post on Sunday. “I would like to personally apologize to Julie. It’s certain that there were things we could have done differently.”Horvath Hurls Harassment Charges in Fiery GitHub Exit

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