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Programming languages, frameworks, and software development practice.
InfoQ Development
Prof. Dan Ghica, who leads the Programming Languages Lab at Huawei’s Edinburgh Research Centre, recently presented Cangjie (CJ), a new application development language that features algebraic data typ
Lobsters
Nearly 3 years ago, before coding agents, I wrote a bytecode VM and garbage collector in Zig and unsafe Rust, and felt that the human ergonomics of writing unsafe code was in Zig’s favor.
Lobsters
Recently, I decided to take my long standing, perfectly good GNU Emacs lsp-mode setup and completely replace it with Eglot, the now built in GNU Emacs LSP solution. At one level I didn't have any particularly strong specific reason to switch; I started by...
Lobsters
Tom likes making games. He has worked professionally as a game developer, but he also likes to make games in his free time, as a hobby. He makes these hobby games in a “from scratch” kind of way. This means that he just has a main procedure and imports some...
Lobsters
I’ll get straight to the point: your AI coding agent, the one you use to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs. Not by a little bit, either. You write code twice as quick now? Better hope you’ve halved your maintenance costs. Three times as...
Lobsters
I just spent this weekend writing my own little pastebin clone, called Vivipara.I also have bunch of thoughts about various programming languages. Read about it all in this one blogpost!
InfoQ Development
OpenAI introduces a WebSocket-based execution mode for its Responses API to improve agentic workflow performance in coding agents and real-time AI systems. The update reduces latency by up to 40 perce
Stack Overflow Blog
Agents are everywhere, so isn't it fitting that the Worst Coder in the World goes agentic? A coding newbie explores the challenges and rewards of building an agent for work—and trying to learn a few things about coding along the way.
Martin Fowler
A structured approach to using prompts to guide AI-assisted programming.
Stack Overflow Blog
A year ago, I set out to test whether all of the hype around vibe coding was real. I decided to stress test AI with a complex design project and really push it to see if AI assistance was the magical tool everyone raved about.
Stack Overflow Blog
Ryan welcomes Mike Swift, co-founder and CEO of Major League Hacking, to the show to chat about the never-ending need for software developer communities and entry points into programming; MLH’s recent acquisition of DEV and how they’re creating a place for...
Martin Fowler
A mental model for building trust in coding agents through feedforward guides, feedback sensors, and iterative harness engineering.