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The Linux Foundation jobs report finds significant drop in demand for SysAdmins from 49% in 2018 to 35% this year. Linux Foundation survey of Linux users finds Linux popular. More breaking news as it comes in.
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Contrasting to it, there is a wave I hear where organizations are merging QA & DevOps role into Developer, calling it an engineering role. Thus, No more QA or DevOps in the organization, product owning team need to learn and do all the stuff.
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In the distant past, there was a proverbial “digital divide” that bifurcated workers into those who knew how to use computers and those who didn’t. "People try to put us d-down. Just because we get around"
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Way back in October 2019, Microsoft announced Windows 10X, a modular version of Windows 10 aimed at dual-screen, foldable, and new form factors. The 'X' stands for 'Already eXtinct'
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A revisit to "Windows XP Embedded"?
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I thought XP Embedded was actually useful (ATMs and stuff). This seems more like Windows S repeated. 
TTFN - Kent
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I thought the same; I was writing in hope. (Then again, Microsoft may freak out about doing something useful and call it off.)
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This hasn't worked for any of the three times (Windows RT, Windows 10 S, Windows Phone) they've tried it so far, so why do they think it's going to work now?
Is there anything different about it this time? Noting much has changed, as far as I can see.
Why can't they just accept that Windows without err... Windows apps is not a compelling platform? It's not like anything massive has changed in the market since their earlier attempts.
Surely if they really want to rule the whole app market thing they'd do better to put a cool skin on Android and release Microsoft Android, and persuade people to code for Microsoft ecosystem tweaks on Android. That way they wouldn't be trying to impose a whole app ecosystem that has mostly been rejected three times so far (they'd only be modifying an existing ecosystem).
If I want to run a cool multi-screen device that can't run real Windows apps then it will be running Android apps please. Otherwise it can have no benefit to me. Windows has a massive app ecosystem but it's all... well, Windows based. It seems exceedingly unlikely to me that a new Windows-but-not-Windows ecosystem is ever likely (as the world now stands) to build up the range of choice of real-Windows or Android.
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Starting next month, users trying to access certain websites will see IE refuse to load the URL and automatically open the site in Edge instead. But what if I enjoy broken web pages?
Just waiting for it to "accidentally" switch Safari or Chrome browsers.
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Shhhhh!
We musn't allow the British to learn how Edge and Internet Explorer works. 
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Not only are languages like Java or Python adopting more and more concepts from functional programming. Newer languages like Haskell are going completely functional. Who?
Sorry, it's Monday. That's all I can respond with at the moment.
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NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has confirmed, for the first time, water on the sunlit surface of the Moon. This discovery indicates that water may be distributed across the lunar surface, and not limited to cold, shadowed places. Just in case you get thirsty while you're there
For this, they had the big announcement of a coming announcement? /sigh
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Time crystals sound like something out of science fiction, but they may be the next major leap in quantum network research. Don't forget to set your time crystals back (or is it forward?)
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Obligatory video (produced by Fermilab): Are time crystals real? - YouTube
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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The cookie company is taking precautions against the "Election Day Asteroid" scheduled to graze Earth on November 2. "They can’t go stale ’cause they weren’t ever fresh."
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If you want to build a long career as a software developer, you need to pay attention to those programming languages and other skills that will endure for years, if not decades. I got a good laugh out of it, so you can too
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It is a brave (or foolish) article author who predicts the death of C within 5 years. 
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I was thinking more "foolish" myself.
TTFN - Kent
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Whaddya mean I can't run Java and C# on my $2ea Atmel, Microchip and Stm32 chips?!
Guess that rules out the 3cent Padauk ones... 
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Maybe you can get an interpreted environment running on that, so you can be like the cool kids? 
I'm sure it will stroll just fine on a 3cent chip. 
TTFN - Kent
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With a kiloword of program memory and 64 bytes of ram. Ooh yeah, it'll be awesome..
Running Doom on a pocket calculator? Amateurs!
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I have yet to see a list of popular programming languages that applied a metric that is both measurable and useful for the term 'popular'.
For the polls with measurable data, the metric is suspect. As an example, the TIOBE index is based on the following:TIOBE: The TIOBE Programming Community index is an indicator of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. Popular search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube and Baidu are used to calculate the ratings. It is important to note that the TIOBE index is not about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written.
It seems like the TIOBE index would measure the number of users for each programming language. I'm not sure how that correlates to popularity or the importance or even how much the language is used.
Useful metrics might include "which languages are most prevalent?", "which languages have the best job security?", "which languages give me the most flexibility?". Each of these attempt to answer an intangible. By the time you constrain it to a tangible and measurable result, you've lost the sense of the original question.
Software Zen: delete this;
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C, I very much doubt it.
Perl, I very much hope so.
Kevin
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Talk about failure by hyperbole.
Perl, Objective C, and Ruby are going to see severe decline due to lack of new project starts and attrition in legacy ones; but that isn't going to kill them off. Not even Objective-C which is probably the worst off.
Haskell's never been more than an academic/ivory tower language to begin with. It'll go from nothing to nothing. 
Regular C's probably the worst off. Along with C++ it suffers from not being relevant to the main growth areas in programming. Web and mobile applications are taking the majority new app starts, and are displacing existing desktop apps - when they're not rewritten as web apps using electron anyway  🙄 - but embedded/OS programming isn't going away. And it's going to take a lot more than a few years for Rust or any other newly hyped language to make a serious dent there.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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