As a software engineer, you could talk about your profession all day long. You love to share your knowledge and are always curious about other people's perspectives. What you love most is to stand ...

For a piece of wearable technology, Pebble has had a fairly “rocky” history. One of the most successful Kickstarters of its ...

Microsoft is revising C#'s unsafe model based on Rust's example. The goal: fewer memory errors and thus fewer security ...

Microsoft is applying lessons from Rust to C# in a planned redesign of the unsafe code model, continuing a years-long company focus on reducing memory-safety risks historically associated with C and C ...

Developing high-quality software isn’t an easy task nor is it cheap. Still, fixing bugs in the field is a lot more expensive ...

.NET product manager Richard Lander has written a lengthy post describing how the team intends to improve the memory safety of C# by introducing a new model and redefining the existing unsafe keyword, ...

The FFM API makes accessing C libraries convenient but also presents challenges. Helper functions and best practices make it ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

On November 18 of 2025 a large part of the Internet suddenly cried out and went silent, as Cloudflare’s infrastructure suffered the software equivalent of a cardiac arrest. After much panicked ...

Rust mascot Ferris the crab welcomes attendees to RustConf 2025 in Seattle, where the community marked the 10th anniversary of the open-source programming language’s first stable release, and ...

Learning to code in 2025 feels a bit like learning to ride a bike—there are a ton of ways to get started, and everyone swears by their own method. Some people say to pick up a book, others jump ...