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• Cloud infrastructure companies offer top pay for developer relations, survey says

  Developer relations employees in the US are paid higher than those in other countries, according to a poll from Common Room.

• Go 1.19 improves generics and memory model

  Go 1.19 refines the generics support introduced in Go 1.18 and improves the performance of generic code up to 20 per cent.

• Carbon language aims to be a better C++

  Experimental successor to C++ strives for C++ performance and compatibility while avoiding its technical debt and ‘extreme difficulty’ to improve.

• RStudio unveils Shiny for Python alpha Web framework

  The Shiny Web framework for R is now available for Python in an alpha version, Joe Cheng has announced at RStudio Conference.

• Better type checking and more in Deno 1.24

  The latest release of the Node.js rival features improved transpiler performance, smarter type checking, and debugging and fallback error handling support.

• GitHub's new features aim for business and open-source users

  GitHub, the popular code repository service, has to serve two masters. It's well-known for hosting popular open-source projects, but it's also working to acquire more large and small business users to privately store and manage their proprietary code.

• Meg Whitman tells IT leaders everything they need to know about HP Enterprise

  In a recent interview, HP Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman discusses her firm's RD strategy and how it differentiates itself from other IT vendors in areas including cloud computing and hyper-converged infrastructure, among others. She also talks about HP's image problem.

• 5 things to expect from Microsoft's big developer conference

  Microsoft executives will take the stage at Moscone West in San Francisco on Wednesday for the first of two keynote addresses to the company's big Build developer conference. Here are five key things to expect from the next two days of Microsoft announcements.

• Microsoft shortchanges Office for Mac customers on support

  Although Microsoft crafted Office 2016 for Mac to be much more like its Windows sibling, one thing hasn't changed: Mac Office 2016 users continue to get the short end of the support stick.

• 10 things Windows 10 does better than Windows 8 (+8 photos)

  Did the PC market collapse because Windows 8 sucked, or did Windows 8 suck because Microsoft overcompensated for the PC market's collapse? It's a bit of a chicken-or-the-egg scenario, but one thing's certain: Windows 8 sucked.

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