Qt Bridges is a new technology announced by Qt Group that enables developers to write backend logic in languages like C#, Kotlin, Python, Rust, or Swift while keeping the UI in QML/Qt Quick, simplifying integration and expanding the Qt ecosystem.
This article examines the claim that C# is dead by exploring emerging competing languages, community perceptions, market trends, and the language’s robust ecosystem, highlighting its cross‑platform support, performance, security, and expanding roles in cloud computing, AI, mobile, game development, and beyond.
The latest TIOBE index shows Java falling out of the top three for the first time, C# overtaking it with a rapid market‑share gain, and Kotlin climbing back into the top twenty, while a detailed list of other languages and historical charts illustrate broader programming language trends.
The January 2024 TIOBE Index reveals C# winning the 2023 Programming Language of the Year award, highlights Java’s market‑share loss and pricing controversy, showcases the rise of Kotlin, Fortran and COBOL, and offers expert predictions on which languages may break into the Top 20 next year.
The 2023 TIOBE Index crowned C# as the top programming language, highlighting its rapid growth over Java, the impact of Java's new subscription pricing, and the broader shifts in language popularity that could shape development trends through 2024.
C# has become the 2023 TIOBE Programming Language of the Year, topping the index with a 1.43% rise, overtaking Java in popularity, while the article examines the latest rankings, growth trends of other languages such as Dart, TypeScript, PHP, and offers insights into predicting future top‑20 languages.
This article chronicles the life of software pioneer Anders Hejlsberg, tracing his early work on Turbo Pascal, the evolution through Delphi and C#, and his later influence on TypeScript, highlighting his impact on programming languages, IDEs, and modern software development.
November 2023’s TIOBE Index reveals Python still leads at 14.16%, while C# jumps to fifth place, narrowing its gap with Java to just 0.7%, as Java slips to fourth with its biggest monthly decline, and C and C++ also see modest drops.
Microsoft announced that Visual Studio for Mac will be retired, ending support after August 31, 2024, and explained its history from SharpDevelop to Xamarin Studio, the reasons for low adoption, and offered alternatives such as VS Code with C# Dev Kit, VM-based Windows VS, and JetBrains Rider.
Microsoft has released the first preview of a .NET MAUI extension for Visual Studio Code, enabling developers to debug, build, and deploy native Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows applications from a single shared codebase using C# and XAML, with integrated Blazor support.
The ip2region 2.10.0 update introduces C# and Node.js query clients, provides detailed benchmark results, fixes a Python XDB searcher bug, disables buffer‑related functions for several languages, and includes a Maven dependency snippet for Java, all while maintaining microsecond‑level query performance for offline IP lookup.
The article demonstrates how to build an offline C# reflection tool using libclang and ClangSharp by parsing C++ headers into an AST, traversing it, generating structured data, and applying Liquid templates, while introducing meta‑attributes via C++ annotate macros for fine‑grained code‑generation control.
The May 2023 TIOBE ranking shows the Top 10 languages unchanged, with C# posting the highest growth of 1.98% and a near‑two‑percent market‑share rise, while C++ driven by C++20 is poised to challenge the Top 3, accompanied by notable shifts for R, Swift, and Ruby in the Top 20.
GongSolutions.WPF.DragDrop is an open‑source .NET library that simplifies implementing drag‑and‑drop interactions in WPF applications, offering MVVM‑friendly APIs, multi‑selection, reordering, cross‑control data transfer, visual decorators, and extensive default settings, while supporting .NET Framework 4.6.2+, .NET Core 3.1, .NET 5/6 on Windows.
This article walks through migrating a two‑decade‑old C#/.NET university operating‑system project to .NET 6 using the .NET Upgrade Assistant, showing command‑line interactions, code adjustments, package updates, and how the final single‑file executable runs cross‑platform on Windows, Linux and Docker.
The long‑standing Chinese Windows utility PDF Patcher, known for its extensive PDF editing capabilities, has been open‑sourced on GitHub, revealing its C# and C codebase, .NET Framework foundation, iText and MuPDF dependencies, and a unique “Conscience License” that adds moral obligations for users and developers.
The article introduces three C# 11 preview features—allowing line breaks inside interpolated string expressions, a new list pattern syntax for matching arrays and slices, and a concise parameter null‑checking syntax—explaining their usage, showing code examples, and describing how to enable them in a project.
This article reviews the 20‑year history of Visual Studio .NET and the .NET platform, highlighting key milestones, the shift to open‑source, the features of .NET 6, and the upcoming .NET 7 preview, while inviting developers to share their own .NET stories.
The 2021 TIOBE Index crowned Python as the top programming language, surpassing C# with a higher growth rate, while C# remained stagnant at fifth place, and the article analyses the shifting rankings and future prospects of major languages.
The December 2021 TIOBE index reveals the top 20 programming languages, highlights notable movements such as Python’s three‑month dominance, Swift’s rise into the top ten, and C# as a strong candidate for the upcoming annual award, while also explaining the index’s methodology and its limitations.
