US education non-profit the Khan Academy has completed 500,000 lines of code in Google's Go programming language to replace its backend server previously written on Python 2. Kevin Dangoor, a ...

What does it take to build a quantum computer? Lots of exotic supercooled hardware. However, creating a simulator isn’t nearly as hard and can give you a lot of insight into how this kind of computing ...

A few months ago, I had a discussion with some friends online. The premise of the discussion was that even if you account for complexity, shorter code is more likely to be bug-free code. As a C ...

If there’s one thing that makes Python incredibly successful, that would be its readability. Everything else hinges on that: if code is unreadable, it’s hard to maintain. It’s also not ...

Take dynamic typing as an example. It seems amazing at first: Python literally figures out by itself what sort of value a variable might take, and you don’t need to waste another line of code by ...

Editor's Note: This article has been updated since its original publication. It's been 20 years or more since I wrote my first few hundred lines of code in C, so it's about time I learned a more ...