Among common programming languages like Python and C, one new and upcoming language promises all the benefits and capability ...

Neuroscientists from MIT have found that reading computer code does not activate the areas in the brain used to process language. Instead, they found that it activates general-purpose neural networks ...

Rust holds its top 10 spot, Python stays No. 1, the leading languages keep their July positions, and MATLAB drops out of ...

What if you could turn your ideas into working code simply by describing them in plain language? Imagine skipping the tedious syntax, the endless debugging, and the steep learning curve of traditional ...

Dear Decoder, Your desire to speak the “language” of machines reminds me of Ted Chiang's short story “The Evolution of Human Science.” The story imagines a future in which nearly all academic ...

This programming language gives you programs that resemble modern art. It’s fortunately a feature of the language, dubbed Piet after the famed abstract painter Piet Mondrian. The language uses 20 ...

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web, so there's been a lot of pixels spilled on "the initial promises of the web"—one of which was the idea that you could select "view source" ...