Dear Decoder, Your desire to speak the “language” of machines reminds me of Ted Chiang's short story “The Evolution of Human Science.” The story imagines a future in which nearly all academic ...

Each year, the code-sharing platform GitHub releases its ‘State of the Octoverse’ report, which among other things ranks the popularity of programming languages. The latest report, released in October ...

From a friendlier way to write WebAssembly to a visual language for machine learning, these 11 programming tools could redefine the way you write software. Was it Alexander Pope who said, “Hope ...

A hot potato: Generative AI is disrupting a lot of areas, especially the programming industry. For a while now, tech leaders have claimed that the technology can make anyone a coder, and that kids don ...

What makes Cursor different is its AI-driven features like smart autocomplete, natural language code editing, and ...

The Rust programming language is getting so popular that the people behind it are creating a team that's dedicated to defining the default Rust coding style. Rust, as developer analyst RedMonk puts it ...

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

Java was created over 25 years ago, and it is still one of the most popular programming languages. In this article, I will present an overview of how Java has grown to today's complex system and why ...