Programming: Google Opens Maps APIs, Survey, Firefox Addons and GCC
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China's open source AI, a GitHub tool for licensing, and more news
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Google Opens Maps APIs and World Becomes Dev Playground
Google this week announced that it will open its Maps APIs to video game developers, which could result in far more realistic settings in augmented reality games. With access to real-time map updates and rich location data, developers will have many choices of settings for their games.
The APIs will provide devs with what Google has described as a "living model of the world" to use as a foundation for game worlds. Developers will have access to more than 100 million 3D buildings, roads, landmarks and parks from more than 200 countries around the globe.
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Developers dread Visual Basic 6, IBM Db2, SharePoint - survey
Stack Overflow’s annual survey has revealed the tools and tech that developers love to hate: Visual Basic 6, IBM Db2 and SharePoint.
According to the poll, which took in the views of more than 100,000 devs, Rust is the most loved programming language for the third year running. It is closely followed by Kotlin, which makes its debut in the survey.
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At the other end of the spectrum is Visual Basic 6, which has been voted most dreaded programming language. Visual Basic 6 is also linked to lower pay, with Stack Overflow saying that devs using it are “paid less even given years of experience”.
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[Firefox] March Add(on)ness: Momentum (2) vs Grammarly (3)
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Intel SGX Enclave Support Added To GCC
The latest feature addition to the GCC compiler this week is support for Intel's new "ENCLV".
ENCLV is a new intrinsic that is part of the Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX). The Enclave happens to be a trusted execution environment embedded into a process with isolated memory regions of code.data. Enclaves are protected areas of execution and the ENCLV instruction is needed to put application code into that special mode.
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