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Best Programming Languages for Mobile Apps

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    Post Views:   805 Have you ever counted how many apps do you use per day? We’re so used to our mobile apps that we don’t even notice how they make up a huge part of our days. Today, there’s almost no web platform that does not have an equivalent app. But before you rush to  hire an iOS developer , do you even know what programming language they use to create your mobile app?  If you’re new to the mobile app development world but want to somehow be a part of it, either by hiring or doing it yourself, this article will be a lot of help for you. We’ll skin through the best programming languages for mobile apps, discussing them one by one so that you know which one is better.  So, without further adieu, let’s jump into:  Best Programming Languages for Mobile Apps  1) JavaScript “JavaScript will stay relevant as long as people use the Internet”  This is what William Ting once said about JavaScript, and no one has put it better since that. JavaScript is simply there and will always be th

Why coders love the AI that could put them out of a job

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  IMAGE SOURCE JANINE LUK image caption Learning to code was Janine Luk's "best ever" decision "When you start coding, it makes you feel smart in itself, like you're in the Matrix [film]," says Janine Luk, a 26 year-old software engineer who works in London. Born in Hong Kong, she started her career in yacht marketing in the south of France but found it "a bit repetitive and superficial". So, she started teaching herself to code after work, followed by a 15-week coding boot camp. On the boot camp's last day, she applied for a job at cyber-security software company, Avast. And started there a week later. "Two and a half years later, I really think it's the best decision I ever made," she reflects. When she started at the company, she was the first woman developer working on her team. She now spends her spare time encouraging other women, people of colour, and LGBT people to try coding. For programmers like her, she says the most in

5. Tech causes more problems than it solves

  A number of respondents to this canvassing about the likely future of social and civic innovation shared concerns. Some said that technology causes more problems than it solves. Some said it is likely that emerging worries over the impact of digital life will be at least somewhat mitigated as humans adapt. Some said it is possible that any remedies may create a new set of challenges. Others said humans’ uses and abuses of digital technologies are causing societal harms that are not likely to be overcome. The following comments were selected from among all responses, regardless of an expert’s answer to this canvassing’s main question about the impact of people’s uses of technology. Some of these remarks of concern happen to also include comments about innovations that may emerge. Concerns are organized under four subthemes: Something is rotten in the state of technology; technology use often disconnects or hollows out a community; society needs to catch up and better address the threa