Vibe coding allows manufacturing personnel to create software using everyday speech instead of traditional programming, enabling production managers to simply say "build a monitoring dashboard for ...

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 ...

My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its ...

In 2005, Travis Oliphant was an information scientist working on medical and biological imaging at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, when he began work on NumPy, a library that has become a ...

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 ...

Google Translate is getting a couple of upgrades that give it a serious functional boost. The mobile app now enables back-and-forth chats in real time with voice and on-screen text translations. The ...

For this week’s Open Questions column, Cal Newport is filling in for Joshua Rothman. Much of the euphoria and dread swirling around today’s artificial-intelligence technologies can be traced back to ...

MIPS programming is the practice of writing code in the MIPS assembly language, which is used to communicate with the MIPS processor architecture. MIPS stands for Microprocessor without Interlocked ...

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 ...

TIOBE Programming Index News May 2025: Python Hits Major Milestone Your email has been sent Python holds the highest share of interest in a programming language in decades Go, Rust, and other ...

Two years ago, when visiting research colleagues in Uppsala, Sweden, we were asked a deceptively simple question: “What does it mean to program?” For context, one of us had just completed academic ...