Although it is now February, almost March, the language ranking numbers below were actually run in January in keeping with our roughly quarterly pace for updates. As we have done since 2011, we’re repeating the analysis originally performed by Drew Conway and John Myles White in December of 2010. Measurement of performance depends, of course,| tecosystems
The Certificate Authority Browser Forum has officially blessed us with the internet equivalent of mandatory daily dental flossing: SSL certificates that expire every 47 days by 2029. That’s right. The same certificates that currently give you a comfortable 398 days to procrastinate are about to need replacing—to abuse my dental hygiene conceit—more often than your| console.log()
As long as we have been doing our programming language rankings here at RedMonk, dating back to the original publication by Drew Conway and John Myles White, we have been trying to find the correct timing. Should it be monthly? Quarterly? Annually? While the appetite for up to date numbers is strong, the truth is| tecosystems