LINUX BUNDLE DEAL

Grab the Ultimate Linux Developer Collection Bundle by Packt offers budding IT professionals the tools they need to compete with the best in the field while supporting the Alzheimer's Research UK.

https://www.humblebundle.com/software/ultimate-linux-developer-collection-packt-software

Coroutines in C - It is virtually a rite of passage for C programmers to realize that they can write... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/14/coroutines-in-c/ #softwaredevelopment #protothreads #coroutine #c

Death by a Thousand Slops

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/14/death-by-a-thousand-slops/

Meta is rewriting its mobile messaging infrastructure in #RustLang, phasing out a legacy C codebase that engineers found hard to maintain and frustrating to work with.

More details on #InfoQ https://bit.ly/4kzBvpG

I Build Software Quickly

https://evanhahn.com/how-i-build-software-quickly/

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity

Joel Becker, Nate Rush, Beth Barnes, David Rein

Model Evaluation & Threat Research (METR)

"Despite widespread adoption, the impact of AI tools on software development in the wild remains understudied. We conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to understand how AI tools at the February–June 2025 frontier affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers. 16 developers with moderate AI experience complete 246 tasks in mature projects on which they have an average of 5 years of prior experience. Each task is randomly assigned to allow or disallow usage of early-2025 AI tools. When AI tools are allowed, developers primarily use Cursor Pro, a popular code editor, and Claude 3.5/3.7 Sonnet. Before starting tasks, developers forecast that allowing AI will reduce completion time by 24%. After completing the study, developers estimate that allowing AI reduced completion time by 20%. Surprisingly, we find that allowing AI actually increases completion time by 19%—AI tooling slowed developers down. This slowdown also contradicts predictions from experts in economics (39% shorter) and ML (38% shorter). To understand this result, we collect and evaluate evidence for 20 properties of our setting that a priori could contribute to the observed slowdown effect—for example, the size and quality standards of projects, or prior developer experience with AI tooling. Although the influence of experimental artifacts cannot be entirely ruled out, the robustness of the slowdown effect across our analyses suggests it is unlikely to primarily be a function of our experimental design."

https://metr.org/Early_2025_AI_Experienced_OS_Devs_Study.pdf

JavaScript isn't exactly known for its consistent behaviour and has earned a reputation for sometimes being very, very quirky. If you want to see for yourself, try this fun little quiz on the "Date" class in #JavaScript.

I managed to get 8 out of 28 answers right...

#Development #SoftwareDevelopment

https://jsdate.wtf/

AI coding tools make developers slower but they think they're faster study finds

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/11/ai_code_tools_slow_down/

Programming Affordances That Invite Mistakes

https://thetechenabler.substack.com/p/programming-affordance-when-a-languages

Hacking Coroutines into C

https://wiomoc.de/misc/posts/hacking_coroutines_into_c.html

Debian, NetBSD and Gentoo lead the charge on forbidding AI-written code.

After all, the open-source and pro-privacy community is the only one that has a modicum of ethics and love for humanity.

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-distros-ban-tainted-ai-generated-code

Study finds AI actually slows down experienced devs by 19% instead of speeding them up! The kicker? They expected 24% speedup, felt they got 20%, but reality said otherwise. Yet they keep using it because it makes coding feel less like staring at a blank page

https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/07/12/016247/ai-slows-down-some-experienced-software-developers-study-finds

Fundamentals of Garbage Collection

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/garbage-collection/fundamentals

Leveraging Elixir's hot code loading capabilities to modularize a monolithic app

https://lucassifoni.info/blog/leveraging-hot-code-loading-for-fun-and-profit/

Measuring the Impact of LLMs on Experienced Developer Productivity - Recently AI risk and benefit evaluation company METR ran a randomized control test... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/11/measuring-the-impact-of-llms-on-experienced-developer-productivity/ #artificialintelligence #softwaredevelopment #largelanguagemodels

A software conference that advocates for quality

https://bettersoftwareconference.com/

I'm more proud of these 128 kilobytes than anything I've built since

https://medium.com/@mikehall314/im-more-proud-of-these-128-kilobytes-than-anything-i-ve-built-since-53706cfbdc18

Dearest C++, Let Me Count the Ways I Love/Hate Thee - My first encounter with C++ was way back in the 1990s, when it was one of the Real... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/11/dearest-c-let-me-count-the-ways-i-love-hate-thee/ #softwaredevelopment #featured #rants #c

Spencer Schneidenbach and Matt Williams present on Emerging Technology at Nebraska.Code().

https://nebraskacode.amegala.com/

Are #FlakyTests causing trouble for your team's productivity & morale?

Trisha Gee, Java Champion and Developer Productivity Advocate, dives deep into the challenges of Flaky Tests, their costly impact on developers, and shares best practices for testing and boosting team efficiency.

Watch the #InfoQ #videopodcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/xh_ur8VkO1g