Stories by Paul Krill

Python and TypeScript makes big gains in pull requests, while Java slips to third place

The code-sharing site will tell users what projects depend on other projects as well as offer security alerts

Move to Java 8 overcomes limited Java class support, thread execution issues, and slower performance of Java 7, Google says

The popular JavaScript UI library’s BSD + Patent license will be replaced with the friendlier MIT license—but only if developers update their React code

The first step in making Atom a full-fledged software development environment is now available

Amazon Macie discovers and classifies sensitive data in S3 and automatically alerts to unusual activity and exposures

New alliance brings IBM's DSX data science and machine learning toolkit to the Hortonworks Data Platform

Other languages on the move include R, Hack, and Rust, while Python cements its position as the king of there dynamically typed languages

The Atlassian SourceTree IDE client also now supports GVFS, and others may join in

The popular code repository is trying to be a one-stop shop for developers to get more of their work done

GitHub aims to attract the open source community by opening up the service

Google's Federated Learning lets smartphones collaboratively learn a shared prediction model while keeping training data on the device

The company acknowledges that GitHub is the go-to option for project hosting and will shutter CodePlex at the end of this year

Google is adding Kaggle and new APIs, as well as releasing new machine learning tools

The Python Fire library, which Google has already used in its machine intelligence project, automatically converts code into a CLI