As part of RedMonk’s analysis about language rankings, here’s a visualization that tracks the movement of the top 20 languages over the history of the rankings.

String interning is a technique used in C# to improve the efficiency of string comparison and manipulation. It allows strings that have the same value to be stored in the same location in memory 

C# or Java? TypeScript or JavaScript? Machine learning based classification of programming languages - The GitHub Blog 

The long road to C# 9 has already begun and this is the first article in the world about the C# 9 Candidate features. Once you have completed reading this article, you will hopefully be better prepared for the new C# challenges you will meet in the future. 

a patch for the flaw is expected to be released by Microsoft on November 10 . 

Welcome to the November 2018 release of Visual Studio Code. There are a number of significant updates in this version that we hope you will like, some of the key highlights include:

• Multiline search improvements - Easily create multiline search patterns without using regex.
• Custom title bar on Linux - The custom title and menu bar is now the default on Linux.
• References view - Find All References view includes history of recent searches.
• Snippet comment variables - Snippet variables insert correct comment per language.
• JS/TS callback display - Now you can see the context of anonymous callbacks.
• JSDoc Markdown highlighting - Including syntax highlighting for Markdown code blocks in JSDoc.
• Simplified debug configuration - Better defaults and Quick Pick UI for initial launch configuration.
• Run tasks on folder open - Configure tasks to run when you first open a project folder.
• Choose extension version - Install earlier versions of Marketplace extensions. 

During the two-day event we will have more than 16 hours of content on subjects such as ASP.NET 5, .NET Core, C#, F#, Roslyn, debugging with VS2015, learnings from running large scale websites, and more!