The great programming transformation: How AI and Rust are quietly dethroning C in Linux - and Windows

Maintainers and developers are now using AI to help build Linux. Simultaneously, Rust has graduated to being a co-equal language with C for mainstream Linux development. However, the programming world ...
Archaeology

The World's Oldest Writing

SCRIBE STATUE. FOUND: Lagash, Iraq. CULTURE: Sumerian. DATE: ca. 2400 B.C. LANGUAGE: Sumerian. In early 2016, hundreds of media outlets around the world reported that a set of recently deciphered ...
GIGAZINE

The F-35 fighter jet uses a special version of C++ that prohibits exception handling and recursive functions.

The F-35 fighter jets operated by the U.S. Air Force and the Japan Air Self-Defense Force are equipped with software coded in C++. This C++ code is written in accordance with a coding standard called ...
InfoWorld

Writing code is so over

Soon AI agents will be writing better, cleaner code than any mere human can, just like compilers can write better assembly. There’s an old joke about the weather in San Francisco: If you don’t like it ...
www.cs.utexas.edu

CS303E Homework 12

Recursion is a very useful programming skill. You may not use it very often in most languages, but the ability to think recursively is a valuable skill to acquire. There are programming languages (e.g ...
Hackaday

Writing Type-Safe Generics In C

The fun part about a programming language like C is that although the language doesn’t directly support many features including object-oriented programming and generics, there’s nothing that’s keeping ...
The New York Times

I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What A.I. Is Doing to Students.

Ms. O’Rourke is the executive editor of The Yale Review and a professor of creative writing at Yale University. July 18, 2025 When I first told ChatGPT who I was, it sent a gushing reply: “Oh wow — it ...
Electronic Design

MISRA C/C++ for Writing Better Software

What is MISRA C/C++? Why MISRA C/C++ is important for developers. Why MISRA C/C++ isn't just for automotive applications. This TechXchange focuses on MISRA C/C++ content and resources. Check out our ...
C&EN

MIT and Recursion partner for AI drug discovery tool

The latest chemistry news, including important research advances, business and policy trends, chemical safety practices, career guidance, and more. “Affinity was an open problem for decades,” Barzilay ...
Entrepreneur

Meta Is Building AI That Can Write Code Like a Mid-Level Engineer, According to Mark Zuckerberg

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan earlier this month that Meta is developing new AI that will be able to write “a lot of the code in our apps.” OpenAI, meanwhile, is reportedly working on AI ...