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Universal Package Managers? Meet the State Tool

Written in Go, the State Tool is designed to (ultimately) be a cross-platform, universal package manager for dynamic open source language runtimes.

There’s been so much already written and said about Black Lives Matter. Rather than raise our own voice, we choose…

With many children now at home as schools are closed and shifting to online curriculums, there are several ways for…

From time to time, all of us run up against the limitations of our tools. In the old days, you’d…

Open source licenses come in different types (i.e., copyleft vs permissive), flavors (i.e., industry standard vs specific to a single…

For the second year in a row we ran a developer survey to better understand open source runtime pains. The…

Cross-package dependencies are a nightmare. Every Readme says “install packages X, Y and Z” but they rarely mention the versions…

Open source licensing should be easier to deal with now that open source has become the de facto way we…

At ActiveState we’re steeped in open source languages, we’ve been build engineering them for over twenty years. And we’ve seen…

At ActiveState, we recently put on a Webinar to present the Top 5 Trends in Open Source Languages as well…

Taught vs Self Taught When I was just starting out in software, I found that many of my peers often…

Building Dev Environments Velocity as a measure of developer output is a well known metric for agile teams. Maximizing developer…