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The story of GraalVM in early 2026: a project settling into a quarterly cadence, tightening its support matrix, and—thanks to Oracle—being very explicit about what it is no longer going to be.

AI startup Anthropic's claim of automating COBOL modernization sent IBM's stock plummeting, wiping billions off its market value. The decades-old language, still powering critical systems, faces a ...

Neither an art nor a science, writing software is more akin to carpentry or watchmaking. We’re going to miss it.

Moderne today announced Python language support across its Agent Tools platform, expanding the infrastructure organizations ...

Safe coding is a collection of software design practices and patterns that allow for cost-effectively achieving a high degree ...

Ruby is an incredibly easy language to learn, and there's a lot of evidence why it is simple to break into and start.

There's more to the story than the alphabet.

Sophie Koonin discusses the realities of large-scale technical migrations, using Monzo’s shift to TypeScript as a roadmap. She explains how to handle "bends in the road," from documentation and ...

Amid a push toward AI agents, with both Anthropic and OpenAI shipping multi-agent tools this week, Anthropic is more than ready to show off some of its more daring AI coding experiments. But as usual ...

Anthropic has revealed a striking experiment where AI systems worked together to build a complete C compiler almost entirely on their own. Led by researcher Nicholas Carlini, the project shows how far ...