Maintainers and developers are now using AI to help build Linux. Simultaneously, Rust has graduated to being a co-equal language with C for mainstream Linux development. However, the programming world ...

Abstract: Scripting languages like Python or JavaScript are extremely popular among developers, in part due to their massive open-source ecosystems that enable smooth code reuse. However, recent work ...

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 a fairy tale story, it doesn't take a genius to know when a couple is meant to be with one another. The stars align, they click almost immediately, and everything magically works out in their favor ...

This is an edition of the newsletter Pulling Weeds With Chris Black, in which the columnist weighs in on hot topics in culture. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Thursday. Substack, the ...

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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.” ...

For decades, automation represented the pinnacle of operational efficiency. Automating meant programming systems to perform repetitive tasks, freeing up human time for more strategic activities. Today ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Alexandra Aponte is a parent with two kids at Becker Elementary: one in pre-K and one in kindergarten. She enrolled them at the school to be part of the dual language program. "There's ...

Daylight was fading fast when Fahd Gondal and Catherine Grant first visited the dilapidated villa in Madeira, Portugal, that was to become their restoration project for the next four years. It was ...

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 ...