The 2020 HackerRank survey attracted responses from 116,000 developers from all parts of the globe. In our final look at its results we consider its findings about the languages that hiring managers want, the languages developers know and the ones they want to learn next.

A new survey of companies using COBOL and mainframes found they're planning to modernize their existing apps rather than start again with new languages.

Continuing our broad foray into the Java ecosystem we look at the most popular choices in Java's runtime platforms, framework technologies, IDEs, PaaS providers, databases and, of course, JDKs, with the much debated Oracle JDK versus OpenJDK.

GitHub has released an open-source command line tool that you can use to issue pull requests and work with issues from the command line. GitHub CLI is now in beta for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

The long ongoing, but not for too much longer, dispute between Oracle and Google about the use of code from the Java SDK in Android has reached a new stage. Oracle has outlined its case to the Supreme Court and it seems to be a strong one.

The latest version of Apache Groovy is available with with a brand new parser (code-named Parrot) among other improvements. Groovy is an optionally typed and dynamic language, with static-typing and static compilation capabilities, for the Java platform.

Put cellular automata together with neural networks and you might be able to grow a salamander - or anything else you like. This work, from Google AI, casts much light on the difficult topic of morphogenesis, how cells organize themselves into shapes.

PrintFixer is a new AI-based tool that can get a 3D print right in fewer attempts. Put another way, you don't have to be an expert any more because AI can do the job for you.

If you want to get up to speed on stuff that affects you as a developer, our weekly digest summarizes the articles, book reviews, and news written each day by programmers, for programmers. In this week's featured articles, Ian Elliot looks at the JavaScript Canvas stroke property variables and Mike James introduces Java Class Inheritance at beginner level.

Delphi, the event-driven programming language for rapid application development (RAD) is celebrating its 25th Anniversary today with a Webinar.

The TinyGo development team has announced that TinyGo is now officially a Google sponsored project. The announcement was made at FOSDEM 2020, the European Meeting of the Free and Open source Software Developers

In the decade since the launch of its original Chrome-focused bug bounty program, Google has paid out more than $21 million  to security researchers with 2019 seeing a record of $6.5 million in rewards.

Microsoft Research has released an open source library that's compatible with PyTorch. DeepSpeed is a deep learning optimization library that makes it easier to work with large models for training, making it possible to train 100-billion-parameter models.

JRebel has released its 2020 Java Technology Report. Combining its findings with those of  two other recent reports on Java, from Baeldung and Snyk, allows us to reveal the latest state of affairs regarding Java and its ecosystem. 

To date Google has paid $80 billion to Android developers. Apple, however, has paid out $155 billion to devs, almost twice as much. What does this discrepancy mean? 

The winners of Google Code-in 2019 have been announced. The Grand Prize winners, who represent 21 countries, will get to enjoy a 4-day trip to Google HQ to meet with mentors from the open source projects they work on and with Google engineers.

Swift 5.2 is now available in a beta version with improvements including smaller code size and more efficient memory use, alongside better error diagnostics.

HackerRank has published the results of its third annual survey which collected data and opinions from more than 160,000 developers from 162.countries.  In our second look at its findings, we focus on variations in pay and developers satisfaction with their pay.