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the_insult_dog writes:
Some 10 years after the final Microsoft Silverlight release, some developers still fear being "Silverlighted," or seeing a development product in which they have invested heavily be abandoned by Microsoft.
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the_insult_dog writes:
A computer programming research program called ExCAPE funded to the tune of more than $9 million by the National Science Foundation aims to use automated program-synthesis tools to address some of the longstanding problems in software development. While its lofty goals of broadly remaking the art of programming might not be realized, the research has already made some advances and resulted in several tool already in use in areas such as commercial software production and education, reports Application Development Trends magazine..
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the_insult_dog writes:
Despite a lack of dev tools, samples, tutorials, documentation or even a blog post or press release, Facebook's announcement that it's bringing the popular React.js JavaScript library to iOS and Android native mobile development stirred up comments like "groundbreaking" and "game changing." In a series of videos from the recent React.js Conference 2015, Facebook engineers said they're rejecting the "write-once, run-anywhere pipe dream" in favor of a "learn-once, write-anywhere" paradigm. All efforts to duplicate native performance and look-and-feel actually feel like "s__t", an engineer said in explaining the company's new approach to native development in a conference keynote video. Yet to be proven, with tools in the works, it's supposedly a huge success internally at Facebook and experts said the new approach could shake up the whole mobile dev industry.
