Top 5 trends and technologies in software development
In this ever-changing world of software development it’s extremely important to keep up with current technologies, methodologies and trends. It can easily get out of hand though – simply there’s not enough time for anyone to learn all new stuff, work and live a normal life simultaneously. Selection is thus the key, being smartly selective about new things to learn so we won’t miss important stuff but also keep ‘junk’ or unimportant trends out.
I created this small and ever-incomplete list of things I feel we all should pay attention to and practice. Some items could be considered ‘old’ (read: more than a few months old) but still not grasped enough yet.
Of PHP, Facebook’s HipHop and C++
Facebook announced its brand new code transformer, boosting php’s performance by a factor of 2 and also reducing memory consumption (their measurements).
This new beast is called HipHop. According to the announcement:
“Overall, HipHop allows us to keep the best aspects of PHP while taking advantage of the performance benefits of C++. In total, we have written over 300,000 lines of code and more than 5000 unit tests. All of this will be released this evening on GitHub under the open source PHP licence.”
