Amazon has announced a $15 million donation to Code.org to support the development and launch of a new equity-minded Advanced Placement Computer Science programming curriculum.

Microsoft has announced the release candidate of TypeScript 4.2. The new version improves the handling of rest elements in tuple types, and supports smarter type alias preservation.

There's a new major version of Perl's realtime web framework, Mojolicious. Codenamed "Waffle, Mojolicious 9.0 comes with improvements but also with breaking changes. 

Apache has announced that Gobblin, an open-source distributed data integration framework for making big data integration simpler, has reached top-level project status.

The first developer preview of .NET 6 has been released. .NET 6 is due for release in November 2021 and, according to Microsoft, will deliver the final parts of the .NET unification plan that started with .NET 5.

Thomas Eugene Kurtz, the co-founder of the BASIC programming language celebrates his 92nd birthday today. Kurtz once commented that if FORTRAN was the lingua franca (common language) of the computer world, BASIC was the "lingua playpen."

The latest Mars rover, Perseverance landed safely on the red planet this week, carrying with it Ingenuity a tiny drone helicopter hoping to be the first aircraft to fly on Mars.

Working remotely due to the global pandemic has disrupted our established working patterns. Here are five tips for techniques and tools to help maintain, and even improve, your programming productivity.

This modern approach to the legendary GOF Design Patterns book from Wes Doyle is a set of YouTube videos using the C# language with a novel, culinary, twist.

Thanks to a grant from the Perl Foundation, Andrew Shitov is creating A Complete Course of the Raku programming language, the start of which is now available. 

The Rust team has announced a new release that offers improved array indexing, expanded safe access to union fields, and additions to the standard library.