How to think about software development: About software, software development and software developers by Ekström Dan

Author:Ekström, Dan
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2022-09-28T00:00:00+00:00

Around 2015 JavaScript was also a popular choice for of many of the best programmers for many reasons. It was the go to programming language for making the web do things that we had never seen before. The browser would first ask the server for content and as part of the response receive a JavaScript program which the browser then runs (the reader might want to compare this to a virus for improved understanding). The JavaScript program can now from inside the users browser ask for more content, in an asynchronous manner, from the server. The programmer can both update content inside the browser and refresh it in a seamless fashion.

Around the same time it was expensive to develop native applications for mobile phones since so many different versions of both phone manufacturers and operating systems existed. Mobile application frameworks were developed to be able to simplify for developers and to cut costs. These frameworks offered a programmer to develop the applications once in JavaScript and HTML and then the framework would automatically adapt the content to different platforms.

JavaScript became so popular that node.js, an open source platform with the goal of executing JavaScript on the server side, was used to create web servers.

Languages like Typescript or ActionScript were created to compensate for Javascript’s shortcomings. When these languages are compiled they generate Javascript which is then executed.

PHP has been popular since the creation of the WWW. It was used to create facebook.com. When they got performance problems because of PHP, they chose to not throw out all PHP code, instead they generate C++ from a PHP compiler. This approach was later abandoned because it caused to many problems with the generated code which is very hard for a person to solve because generated code doesn’t contain any usable variable names or nice written code. They ended up changing their C++ compiler to a virtual machine (VM) architecture with a transparent JIT phase.⁠13

Languages which had been previously been popular such as PHP, Ruby, Perl were abandoned by the community⁠14 around the same time they were abandoned by the large social media networks.

Pandas written in Python is a library used for scientific, statistical or mathematical applications. It’s often used in finance and stock market applications to check a hypothesis or to create a working prototype. A data scientist would make much use of this in their daily work. Python have a history since 19991, it was originally a light weight scripting language, an alternative to Bash but has since gained more and more features making it into a full scale programming language.

One of the main reasons it gained momentum was that Oracle bought Java in 2010. Later in 2010, just after Oracle had promised to keep Javas development transparent and open, Oracle sued Google for copyright infringement. Two things happened because of Oracles attitude to developers. Major Universities around the world stopped using Java as teaching language and started to use Python. At this time it had all the features that was needed to teach basic programming and at the same time it is a powerful programming language.

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