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Most of the complexity and nuance of the Web is stuffed into browser engines. Even though they’re a huge burden to develop and maintain, the world is lucky enough to have three major ones, and they’re all Open Source.
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The Open Secret of Google Search
from The AtlanticA few weeks ago my house had a septic-tank emergency, which is as awful as it sounds. As unspeakable things began to burble up from my shower drain, I did what any smartphone-dependent person would: I frantically Googled something along the lines of poop coming from shower drain bad what to do.
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It was an idea born of frustration, or at least that’s how Charles Babbage would later recall the events of the summer of 1821. That fateful summer, Babbage and his friend and fellow mathematician John Herschel were in England editing astronomical tables.
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In the Keynote opening WWDC 2022, Apple announced the release of macOS 13 Ventura this autumn/fall. Apple has already provided an overview, and a more detailed list of most of the changes coming.
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RedMonk recently published our regular programming language rankings – this for the first half of 2022. The rankings generally aren’t noisy – our methodology is forward looking and yet also reasonably conservative. As such JavaScript, Python and Java take the top three positions.
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WebKit has had a big year, with over 162 new features and improvements shipping in WebKit browsers — including Safari 15.2, Safari 15.4, and Safari 15.5.
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