September 10 - 16, 2020   

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The Programmers Guide To Kotlin - Destructuring
Mike James

Destructuring  - it sounds like something to avoid, but in practice it is really useful. In this extract from The Programmers Guide To Kotlin by Mike James, we look at destructuring and the spread operator.

The fascination for fast cars has a parallel in the search for the ultimate in computer performance. If you lust after a multicore monster you will certainly understand the drive to build a super computer.

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C++ 20 Finalized
16 Sep | Mike James

C++ 20 has received final approval and the standard will be published by the end of the year. So it goes, languages grow and C++ seems to have no brake to slow it down.

There's no stopping the flood of data - 2.5 million terrabytes are created every day, so storing, organizing and analyzing data is becoming more important than ever. Udacity has refreshed the Nanodegree Programs offered by its School of Data Science and they start on September 23..

GitHub has launched a beta version of GitHub Container Registry, a service aimed at improving how containers are handled within GitHub Packages.

Mozilla has announced a pilot program, ostensibly to give developers an opportunity to boost the discoverability of their Firefox add-ons, by having them reviewed and recommended. During the pilot. the service is free, but if successful a charge is likely to be introduced. Is this Mozilla treating developers as a source of revenue? 

Amazon Braket is now generally available. The service provides access to quantum computing from a range of suppliers of both classically-powered circuit simulators and quantum computers from D-Wave, IonQ, and Rigetti.

The latest Ruby on Rails Community Survey from Planet Argon presents a wealth of information about Rails developers, and the tools they choose to use.

As last year Programmer's Day was September 13th, I imagined that tomorrow would be our special day. I was wrong. Because of the way it is calculated, for 2020, Programmer Day falls on September 12th.

A new free training course that explains serverless computing and provides first-hand experience in building and deploying code directly to a Kubernetes cluster has just launched on the edX platform.

Google has announced improvements for Anthos, its application packaging and management platform for hybrid cloud. The updates include hybrid AI capabilities, support for more cloud providers, and a bare metal beta for running Anthos locally without a hypervisor.

The TIOBE Community Index which ranks programming languages in terms of their popularity is updated once per month. The headline for September 2020 reads "Programming Language C++ is doing very well".