Yukihiro Matsumoto, the creator of Ruby, revealed that he implemented Spinel—an AOT compiler for Ruby that had existed only as a concept for 14 ...

In 2013, Chad Fowler wrote an article titled "Trash Your Servers and Burn Your Code" [1]. He proposed that instead of ...

Python 3.15 is out with explicit lazy imports, UTF-8 as the default encoding, frozendict and sentinel types, the Tachyon ...

Overview: Numba is a just-in-time (JIT) compiler that turns Python functions into fast machine code. In one tested example, a ...

Using the same C code and a small project, I verified how to identify and fix code that fails in ubuntu:26.04 (gcc 15.2.0) ...

Meta open-sources Rebalancer, the Apache 2.0 C++ solver behind 40 million daily assignment problems across its global infrastructure.

This year's edition of the Free and Open Source Software Yearly conference, better known as "FOSSY", moved north to the beautiful (and enormous) campus of the University of British Columbia (UBC) in ...

LLVM-generated code is used every day by billions of people on billions of devices—an outcome that can be clearly traced to research funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) starting in ...

HAT is a format for packaging compiled libraries in the C programming language. HAT stands for "Header Annotated with TOML", and implies that standard C header files are decorated with useful metadata ...

Back in 2023, Chris Lattner, creator of LLVM, and his team at Modular unveiled a new language called Mojo. Its syntax resembled Python, but it compiled to machine-native code and offered memory-safety ...

Most programming languages were designed for humans who read error messages, interpret warnings, and manually trace through stack output to fix bugs. AI agents do ...