ZDNet

Programming languages: This open-source AI code generator is very good at writing in C

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have released PolyCoder, an automated code generator model that was trained on multiple programming languages, which they say is particularly good at ...
Developer Tech

AI coding assistants may influence which languages developers use

GitHub data suggests AI coding assistants are starting to influence which programming languages developers choose.
Visual Studio Magazine

Oracle Offers Java Language Server Tool for VS Code

Oracle announced a language server tool for Java developers using Visual Studio Code to provide language-specific "smarts" in the super-popular, open source-based, cross-platform code editor. The new ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Pylance Now Default Language Server for Python in Visual Studio Code

Pylance is now the default language server for Python in Visual Studio Code, providing IntelliSense functionality as of the May 2021 release of the Python Extension for VS Code. Language servers come ...
InfoWorld

Microsoft’s Power Fx low-code language channels Excel

With its Power Fx language introduced this week, Microsoft is making a play in the low-code development realm. Announced on March 2, the general purpose language is based on the Microsoft Excel ...
ZDNet

Programming languages: This sneaky trick could allow attackers to hide 'invisible' vulnerabilities in code

If you're using the Rust programming language — or JavaScript, Java, Go or Python — in a project, you may want to check for potential differences between reviewed code versus the compiled code that's ...
InfoWorld

What is a compiler? How source code becomes machine code

Compilers often translate source code for a high-level language, such as C++, to object code for the current computer architecture, such as Intel x64. The object modules produced from multiple ...