- as long as there are no problems. Linus Torvalds has long expressed a preference for the original C and his dislike of, or despair at, C++. Could he be mellowing?

MDN is a key resource not only for web developers but for almost everyone who writes code. It now has a smart new redesign ahead of the launch of MDN Plus which still has the status of "Coming Soon". 

GitKraken has updated GitLens to add support for a browser-based editing experience in VS Code online. The Git extension for VS Code also adds support for worktrees and visual file history.

It is 10 years since the Raspberry Pi first went on sale. The initial 10,000 units sold out in less that two hours, causing its two retailers' websites to crash. Since then, over successive models, the Raspberry Pi has seen a 40-fold improvement in performance.

Couchbase has released Couchbase Mobile 3, which the developers say includes many enhancements to the Couchbase Lite and Sync Gateway products for mobile and edge computing solutions.

In 2021 it took an average of only 52 days for bugs reported by Project Zero to be fixed, a significant increase in speed compared to an average time of 80 days three years ago. Linux produced the fastest fixes and Google the slowest.

From a set of photographs, can you distinguish between a real face and one generated by artificial intelligence? Experimental results suggest that you can't. What's more you are more likely to trust the synthetic face.

Code.org, best known for Hour of Code, has announced a new campaign to inspire kids to learn coding.

A longitudinal study of the population of contributors to free and open source software reveals that while there is a marked gender imbalance, the ratio of contributions by female authors is steadily increasing over time as a world wide phenomenon. 

Google Identity Services has been expanded with an authorization feature that aims to make it easier for developers to use to implement secure sign-ins.

GitHub's code analysis technology based on CodeQL has been revamped and now uses machine learning (ML) to find potential security vulnerabilities in code.