Devpost, the hackathon platform formerly known as ChallengePost, has released its first Student Hacker Report for the 2014-2015 academic year, ranking the most popular platforms, programming languages, APIs, libraries, frameworks and more at hackathons over the past year. The report shows Android edging out iOS 38.2% to 22.7% for the most popular mobile platform, while … continue reading
Microsoft today announced the availability of a new IDE built to run on Linux and Mac OS at its developer-focused Build conference, held in San Francisco. Scott Hanselman, principal program manager with Azure, debuted Visual Studio Code, a cross-platform IDE that runs on Linux and Mac OS. It includes many of the features developers have … continue reading
Although it’s become the world’s most popular mobile operating system, Android is still an expanding frontier—and developers are always the first to explore it. Android grew to 81.5% of the global smartphone market share in 2014, according to the International Data Corporation, passing a billion phone shipments for the first time. In terms of actual … continue reading
Facebook captured the hearts of the open-source community this week by announcing the release of the iOS version of React Native on GitHub during its F8 developer conference. React, a JavaScript framework for native development environments, allows developers to build mobile UIs without browser or WebView involvement. React Native for Android will be coming soon, … continue reading
The day when development teams won’t need human testers may never come; browser-based IDEs are the future … continue reading
With the release of Orion 1.0 and other Web-based IDEs growing to maturity, 2013 could be the year Web IDEs take hold … continue reading
While they’re not exactly a hot topic yet, these IDEs are starting to become usable, especially for cloud-based developers … continue reading
A reader reminds others that, as Python’s popularity wanes, integration with IDEs is still essential … continue reading
IDEs have become the preferred working environment for developers, leaving most long-standing text editors with no future … continue reading
When Oracle brought IBM back to the JCP, the future of the language suddenly looked brighter … continue reading
A reader agrees with Andrew Binstock’s column that IDEs are not being built for the proper purposes … continue reading
Integration tools are technically better than they were decades ago, but they still lack some basically critical things … continue reading
