On February 2nd, 2025, computer scientist and OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy made a flippant tweet that launched a new phrase into the internet’s collective consciousness. He posted that he’d ...

Apple's Swift programming language can now be used to develop for Android, and share code with iOS apps. Swift was launched by Apple in 2014 — although it had secretly been in development since 2010.

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 ...

New types of AI coding assistants promise to let anyone build software by typing commands in plain English. But when these tools generate incorrect internal representations of what’s happening on your ...

Ever wonder how computer programs get made? Like, how do people write stuff that a machine can actually understand? Back in the day, it was super hard, almost like talking to a computer in its own ...

Every so often, someone creates or changes a programming language. In the process, these language creators make a number of design choices. They may wonder whether to check certain conditions at ...

Have you ever wished you could skip the steep learning curve of programming and jump straight into creating something amazing? What if coding didn’t have to mean ...

Apple Inc. plans to let third-party developers build applications using its large language models, Bloomberg reported today. The company is expected to announce the initiative at its upcoming WWDC ...

In the expansive world of software development, GitHub has emerged as the go-to platform for code sharing and collaboration, boasting a remarkable community of over 100 million developers. In 2025, ...

Each year, the code-sharing platform GitHub releases its ‘State of the Octoverse’ report, which among other things ranks the popularity of programming languages. The latest report, released in October ...

If you’re the only controls engineer in your facility, you probably know where to find the programming code and files for any of the PLCs in your lines, along with dated documentation regarding any ...

One of the most frustrating things about using a large language model is dealing with its tendency to confabulate information, hallucinating answers that are not supported by its training data. From a ...