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I ditched VS Code for the open-source VSCodium, and I have no regrets

VS Code is one of the most popular open-source (mostly) applications out there, and for good reason: It does everything you ...

Z.ai Open-Sources GLM-4.7, a New Generation Large Language Model Built for Real Development Workflows

Z.ai released GLM-4.7 ahead of Christmas, marking the latest iteration of its GLM large language model family. As open-source models move beyond chat-based applications and into production ...

MiniMax Unveils M2.1 to Bring Multilingual Programming Gains to Open AI Models

Chinese AI startup’s release is a major update to its open-source model series, aimed at multi-language programming and ...

MiniMax releases M2.1 AI model for multi-language programming versatility

MiniMax M2 was released in late October this year. The company stated that M2.1 demonstrated significant improvements in ...
InfoWorld

Spring Boot tutorial: Get started with Spring Boot

Spring Boot is one of the most popular and accessible web development frameworks in the world. Find out what it’s about, with ...

Xojo 2025r3 Delivers Major Updates, New Libraries Feature, Integrated AI Assistant, and Modern OS Support

Xojo 2025r3 debuts Libraries, a major enhancement to the IDE that allows developers to package and reuse compiled classes and interface elements across Desktop, Web, Console and iOS projects.
Wired

Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language

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 ...
The Conversation

Forensic linguistics: how dark web criminals give themselves away with their language

Emily Chiang has received funding from UKRI - Innovate UK. Shannon McCoole ran one of the world’s largest dark web child abuse forums for around three years in the early 2010s. The forum provided a ...
VentureBeat

Dfinity launches Caffeine, an AI platform that builds production apps from natural language prompts

The Dfinity Foundation on Wednesday released Caffeine, an artificial intelligence platform that allows users to build and deploy web applications through natural language conversation alone, bypassing ...
Hackaday

Ask Hackaday: What’s The Top Programming Language Of 2025

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 ...
PC World

Microsoft’s first-ever programming language was just open-sourced

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 ...
IEEE

A Systematic Review of Large Language Models in Programming Learning: Applications, Effects, and Future Directions

Abstract: This study provides a systematic review of 3 years of empirical research on the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) in programming learning. Following the PRISMA methodology, we conducted a ...