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The 2021 State Of The Octoverse
- Eirini Kalliamvakou tl;dr: "This year we’re excited to share the patterns we’ve seen across the community as well as three deeper dives:" (1) Shipping code (2) Creating documentation (3) Sustaining communities."featured in #272
Complexity Is Killing Software Developers
- Scott Carey tl;dr: "The explosion of choice and the pace of development make it challenging for developers to keep up with the zeitgeist, with many developers getting caught in the headlights.” The movement towards microservices and a rapid increase in business demands have created more complexity and burden for developers.featured in #266
Red Hot: The 2021 Machine Learning, AI and Data (MAD) Landscape
- Matt Turck tl;dr: Matt covers the macro view: making sense of the ecosystem’s complexity, financings, IPOs and M&A, a landscape of the ecosystem, key trends and more.featured in #258
Why Doesn't Software Show Up In Productivity?
- Austin Vernon tl;dr: The "digital revolution" hasn't increased economic productivity. To understand this, you need to understand the difference between General-Purpose Technologies (GPTs) and Management Technologies. GPTs plug-in to existing business and are easily adopted e.g. steel, electricity. Software is a management technology and hasn't solved complex enough problems yet. Austin explores what software trends could create GPTs.featured in #250
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FSF-funded Call For White Papers On Philosophical And Legal Questions Around Copilot
- Donald Robertson tl;dr: The Free Software Foundation (FSF) views Copilot as "unacceptable and unjust" as it requires and is trained on software that is not free. In addition, there are other open questions notably around copyright infringement. The FSF is calling for white papers into a host of areas on this topic, listed here.featured in #243
Stack Overflow's 2021 Developer Survey
tl;dr: Stack Overflow's 2021 developer survey. A key takeaway was "for the rising cohort of coders under the age of 18, online resources like videos and blogs are more popular than books and school combined, a statistic that doesn’t hold for any of our other age cohorts."featured in #242
The State Of Developer Ecosystem 2021
tl;dr: "This report presents the combined results of the fifth annual Developer Ecosystem Survey conducted by JetBrains. 31,743 developers from 183 countries or regions helped us map the landscape of the developer community."featured in #240
The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2021
- Stephen O'Grady tl;dr: Interesting trends to note: TypeScript’s ascent up the rankings continues, Ruby's downward trajectory may be not be "gentle", Go seems static or in decline, and more.featured in #226