A job posting by a Microsoft engineer sparked excitement about a project “to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft ...

As language models (LMs) improve at tasks like image generation, trivia questions, and simple math, you might think that ...

But why is coding the one thing that AI agents seem to excel at? The reasons are simple and straightforward.

If you've heard "goblin mode" or "swiftie" lately, it's thanks to them: Young girls are more innovative with language than any other group, linguists say. Young women check their phones on a fire ...

I assume this is a compiler crash; I'd appreciate if anyone can confirm this. In Console.app I have crash reports for both swift-frontend and SourceKitService: do any of them, or both, signal a ...

We did an informal poll around the Hackaday bunker and decided that, for most of us, our favorite programming language is solder. However, [Stephen Cass] over at IEEE Spectrum released their annual ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

An ALGOL compiler has been written by the ALCOR group for the IBM 7090. Some little known but significant techniques in compiler writing, together with organizational details of this compiler, are ...

Lumos Labs is building a gateway to Web3 for all developers to become accomplished contributors in the Web3 world. Even though the notion of a smart contract dates back to the 90s, Ethereum was the ...

Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video clips in personal and commercial projects on an ongoing basis without requiring additional payments each time you use that ...

Once I started thinking about the apocalypse, it was hard to stop. An unsettling encounter with the doomsday clock that hangs over New York City’s Union Square got me frantically searching WikiHow for ...