Plus Objective-C's return to grace, Mike’s big bet on .NET, and more!

Links:

• The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2019 — The idea is not to offer a statistically valid representation of current usage, but rather to correlate language discussion and usage in an effort to extract insights into potential future adoption trends.
• Hello .Net Foundation - dominickm.com — I am pleased to share that I have joined the .Net Foundation.
• Avalonia: A multi-platform .NET UI framework — Avalonia is a WPF-inspired cross-platform XAML-based UI framework providing a flexible styling system and supporting a wide range of OSs: Windows (.NET Framework, .NET Core), Linux (GTK), MacOS, Android and iOS.
• Google’s Stadia looks like an early beta of the future of gaming — “The future of gaming is not a box,” according to Google. “It’s a place.” Just like how humans have built stadiums for sports over hundreds of years, Google believes it’s building a virtual stadium, aptly dubbed Stadia, for the future of games to be played anywhere.
• Stadia — Push the envelope of game development with Stadia.
• Rust is not a good C replacement | Drew DeVault’s Blog — The kitchen sink approach doesn’t work. Rust will eventually fail to the “jack of all trades, master of none” problem that C++ has. Wise languages designers start small and stay small. Wise systems programmers extend this philosophy to designing entire systems, and Rust is probably not going to be invited. I understand that many people, particularly those already enamored with Rust, won’t agree with much of this article. But now you know why we are still writing C, and hopefully you’ll stop bloody bothering us about it.
• Introduction to Python Development at Linux Academy — This course is designed to teach you how to program using Python. We'll cover the building blocks of the language, programming design fundamentals, how to use the standard library, third-party packages, and how to create Python projects. In the end, you should have a grasp of how to program.
• Marc-Etienne M.Léveillé on Twitter — Here's something interesting: the backdoor in ASUS Update Setup.exe is _again_ located in the CRT, just like the CCleaner case and recent games with a backdoor. This time in _crtExitProcess.

Plus we respond to some emails, chat about GitHub’s future plans to sell talent, and Mike’s big announcement: Gryphon.

Links:

• Wyatt of Vulkan
• Molten | Vulkan, and faster OpenGL ES, on iOS and macOS — MoltenVK is a runtime library that maps Vulkan to Apple's Metal graphics framework on iOS and macOS.
• Vulkan has just become the world’s first graphics API with a formal memory model.  So, what is a memory model — This week, Vulkan® has become the world’s first graphics API to include a formal memory model for its associated GLSL™ and SPIR-V™ programming languages.
• Jonathan has found something Rotten
• GitHub Foreshadows Big Open Source Announcements at GitHub Universe — "Businesses use open source libraries, and then they make applications from them, and then they need someone to work on them," said St John. "They will email people at GitHub, and they will come to GitHub itself and say 'We need somebody to come and work on this application built off this open source library. Can you find anybody in the community that will come and work on it?' Happens all the time."
• Gryphon — Gryphon provides everything you need to intelligently display your radar data in a variety of scenarios including simulator-based training and adversary air flights.
• From Jupiter to Beyond: Unplugged where we talk about the merger — We announce our big news, Jupiter Broadcasting is joining Linux Academy and what we have planned for the future is huge!
• Linux Academy Ruby and Node Remote Jobs
• Linux Academy SALE Happening Now - $150 Off — Exclusive discount for new or existing users upgrading to annual plans only. Sale ends 9/24/2018 at 11:59pm CDT.
• User Error Episode 48: Living The Dream — User Error is back!