April 14 · Issue #1

Scientific innovation in software engineering. Leading to new approaches, systems and tools. Each week, Jexia provides you with the latest insights.

Innovation

Read about BikiniProxy at GitHub.

A DSL, API and runtime for building interactive pipelines. Check its GitHub.

Automatically integrate, publish and execute. Read about Boutiques at GitHub.

Devy reduces the number of manual, often complex, low-level commands that developers need to perform. Check inventor Nick Bradley’s GitHub.

There’s an introduction video about the tool. Link to GitHub.

Available at GitHub and a video showcasing its features.

It outperforms state-of-the-art tools in recall and precision (91% and 98.1%).

Check Quality Assistant for Pharo at GitHub and its explanation in a presentation.

Check its GitHub repo and explanatory video.

Devs can even use representations in parallel. Check the site and video of Peopl.

This is what Sulong (GitHub), Graal VM’s LLVM bitcode implementation, does.

OpenSmalltalk: cross-platform VM for Squeak, Pharo, Cuis, and Newspeak.

This decision support system is featured at the website of AMUSE Project.

Curation repositories have become a favourite repository category at GitHub.

Other scientific software development insights

You can use 1 ad network when starting and 2 or 3 when an app becomes popular.

Research shows that badges are appealing for both contributors and organizers.

SO responders prioritize recent topics, but good quality answers take more time.

GitHub commenters less polite, positive and emotional than GitHub contributors.

Comments that contain anger are followed up by angry responses in 4 of 10 cases.

Shown by Github and Stack Overflow content: devs are focused on certain topics.

At least, these appear to be the senior types of devs working at Microsoft.

Many devs appear to rely on news aggregators such as Reddit and Hacker News.

Curiously collected by Jexia

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