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== April 15th, 2019 ==
* '''Most Loved, Again''' -- Every year StackOverflow surveys the developer community and this year nearly 90,000 respondents [https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019 answered questions ] about everything from their favorite technologies to their job preferences. For the fourth year in a row, Rust was their [https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted most loved ] programming language, reflecting the impact and engagement Rust continues to gain as more developers use (and love!) it and more companies put it into production.* '''Most Loved, Surprisingly''' -- We love that Rust was again named most loved programming language in the StackOverflow survey, but perhaps you weren’t surprised by that. What probably will surprise you, though, is that the [https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted-languages fifth most loved ] programming language (after Rust, Python, Typescript and Kotlin) was WebAssembly! You might argue that WebAssembly isn’t even a [https://webassembly.org/ programming language], but clearly developers love as if it were, and we take that to mean there’s huge excitement about using WebAssembly both [https://github.com/CraneStation/cranelift inside ] and [https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/03/standardizing-wasi-a-webassembly-system-interface/ outside the browser].* '''AV1 at NAB''' -- Last week was [https://www.nabshow.com/ NAB Show], the National Association of Broadcasters annual event, billed as “the ultimate event event for media, entertainment and technology professionals looking for new and innovative ways to create, manage, deliver and monetize content on any platform.” Mozilla was there, along with our AOMedia partners, sharing [https://aomedia.org/aomedia-members-spotlight-av1-at-nab-2019/ what’s new with our AV1 ] royalty free codec including both ongoing [https://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=131033 implementation ] progress and rapidly growing [https://www.lightreading.com/video/video-software/samsung-gets-behind-royalty-free-av1-codec-/d/d-id/750645 adoption]. Press [https://www.lightreading.com/video/video-software/royalty-free-video-codec-av1-keeps-gaining-ground/d/d-id/750733?_mc=RSS_LR_EDT coverage ] was great too. AV1 shipped in Firefox 65 in January, with performance enhancements coming in Firefox 67 (now in Beta).
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