Programming Languages Archives - Microsoft Open Source Blog

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February 22, 2021

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2 min read

Microsoft Open Source success story—Babylon

By Emma Irwin, Principal TPM, Microsoft Open Source Programs Office (OSPO)

An ongoing series of stories about Microsoft people and projects making their world better through open source. If…

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February 8, 2021

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1 min read

Microsoft joins Rust Foundation

By Nell Shamrell-Harrington, Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft, and Board Director at the Rust Foundation

Today we’re excited to share that Microsoft is joining industry partners as founding members of the Rust Foundation,…

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July 27, 2020

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1 min read

Introducing Azure Tools, a new blog community for Azure command line tools

By Pui Chee Chan, Sr. Program Manager
Mark Gray, Sr. Program Manager

If you’ve enjoyed reading posts on the topics of Terraform on Azure and Ansible on Azure, follow us…

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June 3, 2018

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8 min read

Why JavaScript and Node.js are ruling the web: Interview with John Papa

By Alessandro Segala, Focused on Azure DevOps and open source programming languages on Azure. Cooker of great risotto.

JavaScript has emerged as one of the most popular programming languages in the world, reigning at #1 on…

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May 12, 2018

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6 min read

Why to love Python today and tomorrow: Interview with Nina Zakharenko

By Alessandro Segala, Focused on Azure DevOps and open source programming languages on Azure. Cooker of great risotto.

Python has been around for almost three decades. You can use is for web development. You can use…

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April 26, 2018

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4 min read

How to deploy a production-ready Node.js HA Stack on Azure

By Brad Bock, Brad Bock is a Program Manager for Cloud Partnerships at Bitnami. He is interested in all things open source and cloud, and is always looking for new ways to help partners and their users do great things with Bitnami apps. In his free time you can find Brad brewing beer at home or hanging out with his wife and their new baby boy.

In our effort to bring the benefits of pre-packaged software to enterprise workloads in the cloud, Bitnami has…

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March 5, 2018

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1 min read

Five things about TypeScript

By John Papa, John Papa is a dedicated father and husband, a Principal Developer Advocate with Microsoft, and an alumnus of the Google Developer Expert, Microsoft RD and MVP programs. His passions are deploying and teaching modern web technologies like Node.js and JavaScript, and enjoying everything Disney with his family. John is a co-host of the popular Adventures in Angular podcast, author of the Angular Style Guide, and many popular Pluralsight courses.

TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development. It’s a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain…

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February 21, 2018

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6 min read

Ready, Set, Go lang: Brian Ketelsen explains Go’s fast growing popularity

By Alessandro Segala, Focused on Azure DevOps and open source programming languages on Azure. Cooker of great risotto.

Since its creation in 2009, the Go programming language has seen a growing global fan base of developers…

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October 16, 2017

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2 min read

Node.js dev? Learn how to host your apps on Azure

By Microsoft + Open Source, Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.

On Wednesday, October 18 at 10am (PST), John Papa, Principal Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft, will be presenting a…

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October 4, 2017

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3 min read

Microsoft at Node Interactive 2017

By Microsoft + Open Source, Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.

Microsoft continues to make investments to ensure that Microsoft Azure is the best cloud for Node.js developers to…