Newer languages might soak up all the glory, but these die-hard languages have their place. Here are eight languages developers still use daily, and what they’re good for. The computer revolution has ...

The R language for statistical computing has creeped back into the top 10 in Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity. “Programming language R is known for fitting statisticians and ...

Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since Aristotle, who wrote that humanity was “the animal that has language.” ...

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 ...

There was a vibe coding demo for using OpenAI GPT5. It uses flashcards and verbal pronounciation and has an interactive game in the educational product. Brian Wang Brian Wang is a Futurist Thought ...

AI has taken the programming world by storm, with a flurry of speculation about the tech replacing human coders, and Google’s CEO recently claiming that 25 percent of the company’s code is now ...

Tech leaders have been adamant that artificial intelligence will forever change industries, jobs, and skills. That remains to be seen in most industries, but in the world of software engineering, AI ...

Microsoft has released the source code for the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code under the MIT license. This provides the community access to the full implementation of the chat-based coding ...

The year is 1968; Ford does a number on its rivals and launches the 428 Cobra Jet motor, blowing the doors off its competitors at the Pomona Winternationals in February with a six-strong stud of ...

What if artificial intelligence could not only learn but also rewrite its own code to become smarter over time? This is no longer a futuristic fantasy—MIT’s new “self-adapting language models” (SEAL) ...

Jensen Huang said people programming AI is similar to the way "you program a person." Speaking at London Tech Week, the Nvidia CEO said all anyone had to do to program AI was "just ask nicely." He ...